So whats the future???????????????

[glbirch]

If Tang refers to Titanuim, your so wrong, the Skunk Works first developed the casting of Ti for the SR 71 Project.

I thought everyone who went through the seventies would recognize tang. Maybe it was a North American thing?

 

[Walter]

Twenty years from now, diving will be much like it is today. Computers will be better. Instead of debating should bail out be taught in the OW class, we'll see some military types lamenting the days when divers could actually clear their masks and PADI will be claiming mask clearing is task loading.

 

[Paul Evans]

What a Prat, Sorry guys, but in my defence we had TANGO, please not the extra letter O :frown2:

 

[Paul Evans]

Come on, What Would you like to see get better in the next twenty years??

 

[Walter]

What would I like to see get better or what do I expect to change?

 

[Paul Evans]

Both, I'am not giving up, Whats with the macaws???, Look I'am new, Humor me????

 

[Walter]

OK, the banner at the top of the board for 3½ years had Macaws. Last month, they disappeared. I understand why they are gone and why they aren't coming back. OTOH, I liked 'em and I miss 'em.

What do I expect?

I don't expect many changes in the next 20 years. I do expect computers to improve. I do expect many of the things others mentioned to be available. I don't expect them to be common. Rebreathers have been around a lot longer than SCUBA. There are reasons they've never become popular, those reasons are not going to magically disappear in the next 20 years. Ultra high pressure? High pressure tanks have been around for almost 20 years, there are syill lots of shops who can't fill 'em. Ultra high is a pipe dream.

Regulators haven't really improved in over 20 years. They won't improve in the next 20. There's nothing left about a regulator to improve. They already breath as easily as if they weren't there. They can already deliver all the air 3 people can use at 100 ft.

Heads up display will be around, but it won't be common. There's no demand for it outside the military.

Communications and full face masks have been around longer than I've been diving, why should they get popular now?

"microbe that will live in your bloodstream and consume all that excess nitrogen, eliminating narcosis and bends forever"

Someone is smoking some powerful weed.

Fluid breathing medium isn't practical.

I expect to see agencies continue to lower standards. I expect it to get to the point where it becomes almost impossible to dive without a baby sitter. There are places it's getting like that now. Now you see OW trips, Advanced trips and tec trips. What we consider OW trips today will be considered too advanced for those holding an AOW card. This might not happen in 20 years, but that's certainly the trend.

What would I like to see?

I'd like to see agencies start to raise standards. I'd like to see dive travel get cheaper. I'd like to see dive babysitters disappear. I'd like to see contact lenses that allow us to dive without a mask. I'd like to see gills. I don't expect any of those, but I'd especially like the last 2.

 

[Paul Evans]

OK, the banner at the top of the board for 3½ years had Macaws. Last month, they disappeared. I understand why they are gone and why they aren't coming back. OTOH, I liked 'em and I miss 'em.

What do I expect?

I don't expect many changes in the next 20 years. I do expect computers to improve. I do expect many of the things others mentioned to be available. I don't expect them to be common. Rebreathers have been around a lot longer than SCUBA. There are reasons they've never become popular, those reasons are not going to magically disappear in the next 20 years. Ultra high pressure? High pressure tanks have been around for almost 20 years, there are syill lots of shops who can't fill 'em. Ultra high is a pipe dream.

Regulators haven't really improved in over 20 years. They won't improve in the next 20. There's nothing left about a regulator to improve. They already breath as easily as if they weren't there. They can already deliver all the air 3 people can use at 100 ft.

Heads up display will be around, but it won't be common. There's no demand for it outside the military.

Communications and full face masks have been around longer than I've been diving, why should they get popular now?

"microbe that will live in your bloodstream and consume all that excess nitrogen, eliminating narcosis and bends forever"

Someone is smoking some powerful weed.

Fluid breathing medium isn't practical.

I expect to see agencies continue to lower standards. I expect it to get to the point where it becomes almost impossible to dive without a baby sitter. There are places it's getting like that now. Now you see OW trips, Advanced trips and tec trips. What we consider OW trips today will be considered too advanced for those holding an AOW card. This might not happen in 20 years, but that's certainly the trend.

What would I like to see?

I'd like to see agencies start to raise standards. I'd like to see dive travel get cheaper. I'd like to see dive babysitters disappear. I'd like to see contact lenses that allow us to dive without a mask. I'd like to see gills. I don't expect any of those, but I'd especially like the last 2.

Really sorry to here about the Macaws!
Been following some other threads, one thing to say, I thought that in the american constitution, (please note we don't have one), gave you the right to free speech!!!! but thats another story.

I love the idea of maskless diving, WHY NOT, contact lenses for underwater?? Any Medicos out there who can help???
Personally i think Semi closed circuit rebreathers, working on Nitrox are the way to go, and with the explosion in mobile phones, coms have to comeing soon at a reasoable price, we live in a age when a diver in the UK can communicate with a diver in the US at the speed of light, 20 years ago we all would have laughed at that.

As for the microbes, That's Cooking weed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[coberry7]

Walter, I never knew you were so bitter about the state of dive instruction. About certain issues, yes, but the whole shebang? Wow.

And who would train these babysitters you refer too?

Colin Berry

 

[Walter]

Colin,

In most Caribbean locations today, DM's are no longer DM's. They are now baby sitters.

No bitterness. It's merely a fact of life.

Mares,

What about free speech?