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I just finished watchng the 6 episode documentary by discovery channel about the training of Navy SEALS called BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition school). it covered the 25-week training period of class 234.
the film showed the experience of 125 + students who will go thru BUDS From the 1st day of training...going thru hell week... dive phase training... waterborne operations... urban/land warfare....all the way to the graduation day.
ok, ok...wat's this got to do with rebreathers, you say?
here it is on episode 5...it showed about the DIVE phase training of BUD/S...its supposed to be a nine-week training phase where they are taught everything about diving from open circuit scuba to draeger lar V rebreathers
The film showed how the students were taught free diving techniques, Free Swimming ascents (similar to CESA in PADI OW) and dive procedures, dive medicine and physics, etc. including gear exchange, ditch & don, navigation underwater, etc.
Like i mentioned...the dive phase training lasts only 9 weeks (after that its land warfare training)... and the SEAL instructors mentioned that some of the students who go thru BUD/S training have never had extensive (if any at all) experience in water (just water...as in Pool water...and not even the ocean...)
and yet they breezed thru Open circuit and rebreathers in 9 weeks....ok ok, i've read the comments that one should get at least 500 dives or more (way more as said in the other thread...i think like 1000+ dives) before trying on CCRs...but how come these boys (yes boys they are...they have 17 year olds there on the documentary on training, mind you) go thru the whole she-bang in 9 weeks? now i dont think they could accumulate 500 dives in the short span of 9 weeks in OC (less than 9 weeks becuase halfway thru the dive phase they shift to CCRs) they can accumulate 500+ dives already.
Now, im posting it here for some healthy exchange of ideas...i just got curious what some people here have to say about it.
*cheers*
the film showed the experience of 125 + students who will go thru BUDS From the 1st day of training...going thru hell week... dive phase training... waterborne operations... urban/land warfare....all the way to the graduation day.
ok, ok...wat's this got to do with rebreathers, you say?
here it is on episode 5...it showed about the DIVE phase training of BUD/S...its supposed to be a nine-week training phase where they are taught everything about diving from open circuit scuba to draeger lar V rebreathers
The film showed how the students were taught free diving techniques, Free Swimming ascents (similar to CESA in PADI OW) and dive procedures, dive medicine and physics, etc. including gear exchange, ditch & don, navigation underwater, etc.
Like i mentioned...the dive phase training lasts only 9 weeks (after that its land warfare training)... and the SEAL instructors mentioned that some of the students who go thru BUD/S training have never had extensive (if any at all) experience in water (just water...as in Pool water...and not even the ocean...)
and yet they breezed thru Open circuit and rebreathers in 9 weeks....ok ok, i've read the comments that one should get at least 500 dives or more (way more as said in the other thread...i think like 1000+ dives) before trying on CCRs...but how come these boys (yes boys they are...they have 17 year olds there on the documentary on training, mind you) go thru the whole she-bang in 9 weeks? now i dont think they could accumulate 500 dives in the short span of 9 weeks in OC (less than 9 weeks becuase halfway thru the dive phase they shift to CCRs) they can accumulate 500+ dives already.
Now, im posting it here for some healthy exchange of ideas...i just got curious what some people here have to say about it.
*cheers*