It's not a good way to teach people how to dive and it's not a good message to send to new divers and it's not the message an instructor should be sending.
However, the other comments are the usual ones and aren't quite accurate or on point in my view.
The diving drunk analogy is a little too dramatic and those who are sure they would kill themselves at 200 fsw are usually those who have just stated that they have little experience working up to those depths. So they don't really know that they are really narcosis sensitive.
More than likely they are just affected by it to the degree that everyone else is. They just chose not to get more experience (probably a very good decision) but others have and have faired OK as well. It's easy to point to those who didn't do it the gradual way and who paid the price but those who don't do any activity the right way often pay the price.
Again, my comments are more to take some of the drama out of these discussions or to be more accurate (in my opinion of course) rather than to be a cheerleader for diving deep on air. Pointing to those who died doing something stupid really is not a valid argument.
However, the other comments are the usual ones and aren't quite accurate or on point in my view.
The diving drunk analogy is a little too dramatic and those who are sure they would kill themselves at 200 fsw are usually those who have just stated that they have little experience working up to those depths. So they don't really know that they are really narcosis sensitive.
More than likely they are just affected by it to the degree that everyone else is. They just chose not to get more experience (probably a very good decision) but others have and have faired OK as well. It's easy to point to those who didn't do it the gradual way and who paid the price but those who don't do any activity the right way often pay the price.
Again, my comments are more to take some of the drama out of these discussions or to be more accurate (in my opinion of course) rather than to be a cheerleader for diving deep on air. Pointing to those who died doing something stupid really is not a valid argument.
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