keithdiver
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How is Hawaii going Lynn? Love that place, that is what got me involved in diving.
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Weather hasn't been cooperating with us, and we just learned the dive op we were supposed to go out with tomorrow can't go, so it's not being a diving-intensive trip.
But back to the OP's question -- you can't read too much; you will find that various people and agencies differ on a wide spectrum of points. In surgery, we say that, if there are a bunch of different operations for a given problem, it's pretty certain that none of them works terribly well (or that one would become universal). It's the same with technical diving. You can make arguments for doing things various ways, and often the bottom line is that each decision has its good and bad points, comes from a different set of underlying assumptions, and has different implications for how you execute a dive. But knowing there are different approaches and trying to understand the reasons behind them will help you ask better questions of your instructor during your class.
But back to the OP's question -- you can't read too much; you will find that various people and agencies differ on a wide spectrum of points. In surgery, we say that, if there are a bunch of different operations for a given problem, it's pretty certain that none of them works terribly well (or that one would become universal). It's the same with technical diving. You can make arguments for doing things various ways, and often the bottom line is that each decision has its good and bad points, comes from a different set of underlying assumptions, and has different implications for how you execute a dive. But knowing there are different approaches and trying to understand the reasons behind them will help you ask better questions of your instructor during your class.
Thanks for all the help guys: I'll definitely read the TDI manuals closer to the date, I was just looking for stuff outside of the required manuals. I'll look into those decompression theory books: does it go through some of the same stuff used in the PADI DM and OWSI courses? I've already read about the Rouses in 'The Last Dive' and the rest of U-whos history in 'shadow divers' which has definitely given me a healthy respect and fear of the deep. I've also been talking to some previous instructors who have been involved in tec diving asking them for advice. I'll be sure to practice skills while hovering, I'll be doing that during my safety stops now.
Thanks for all the help and if you guys think of anything else useful let me know!
Thanks for all the help and if you guys think of anything else useful let me know!
5th-D has some good DVDs on technique that I've found useful.
Instructional DVDs - Unified Team Diving
Instructional DVDs - Unified Team Diving
I met a guy who had "The Tao of Survival Underwater" while on a tech diving trip with Olympus off the NC coast. I was fascinated. Immediately bought it and it remains one of my favorite comprehensive books. Much on technical diving plus sections on rebreathers too.
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