ianr33
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Believe the reason for them being separate is something to do with rebreather training. Advanced Nitrox is a prerequisite but not Deco Procedures.
For OC they might as well be one course.
TDI Deco Procedures.
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Believe the reason for them being separate is something to do with rebreather training. Advanced Nitrox is a prerequisite but not Deco Procedures.
For OC they might as well be one course.
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People who want to climb the technical diving ladder usually combine them in one course. However, others prefer to extend their dive times without decompression.
I think the fact that you need the book for one to take the final exam for the other makes it a very practical policy.
Van Isle
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That's a fault of the training material. The fact of the matter is that there are people who desire the information/cert. provided by one course or another and not both. In 3 seconds I can think of gas blenders, scientific divers at shallow depths, military/paramilitary swimmers on 100% O2, non-overhead rebreather divers. Imagine paying twice the price for a course from which you only needed half the info? Methinks some have need of one or the other, and some have need of both courses.
YMMV (which is why there are options)
VI
I agree, but the training materials are part of the course. If you are taking the final exam in one course and find that you need to have information from the other course, then that is still a problem, regardless of the fault. The simple solution would be to change the training materials, and perhaps in time that will happen. The current training materials are only about a decade old, so I guess we just have to give it enough time to be fixed.
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TDI Advanced Nitrox and TDI Deco Procedures are two different courses. They are not depending on each other. The exams do not require extra material other than the course material.
Interesting. That's not my memory. I took both exams the same night, and the fact that we had to switch books was a topic of amused conversation.
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I have both exams in front of me now; Advanced Nitrox version 1.2 and Deco Proc version 1.1. Neither exam requires other material than the course's manual.
Michael_Lambert
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I recently wrote both exams and each had answers to its specific training manual. Now i did take the courses using the 2009 training materials i can't comment on the older 2001 materials used until recently, which some instructors/shops still are phasing out.
