The PADI ascent order

[RiverRat]

FredT once bubbled...
First I'd like to let the youngsters know that when I learned to dive regulators has at most 3 ports. FT

Hey Fred, Yes, I AM a youngster when it comes to scuba. I enjoy learning from you guys that have been around awhile. After reading your post I realized we newer divers have nothing to complain about! We're spoiled to some degree and don't even know it! I guess that along with the current training standards is a recipe for disaster, newer divers panicking when there is a problem that has a solution but they don't know what it is or how to grasp it when it's most needed, immediately. Even though I'm currently content with recreational diving, I think I may take the local ice diver course comming up, maybe a wreck course etc. Even if I don't plan on deep penetration dives etc. there are skills to be learned that could probably save my life or another divers.

PS Keep making the high quality, US made dive gear! Very nice work!


Happy Holidays Fred to you and yours and the rest of SB!

 

[neil]

I have a real problem teaching the PADI "ascent order". It's not supposed to be, IMO, a list of things you actually work through when the poop hits the fan. I present it as a list of things that CAN be done in an OOA situation. I discuss why this might be the order of choices, and whether I agree or not. THEN I teach the TWO options I think a beginner needs to choose from, based on what I'm going to be teaching them:

1- Turn to your buddy and get the alternate air source. This option works with any gear configuration that uses an AAS.

2-If you screw THAT up because you lost your buddy, swim to the surface, ESA. Drop weights when you get there.

TWO things to do, not five or eight! This or that, period. I think the newbies need to practice a couple of things, not get confused and work through ALL the possibilities. My 2 cents.

Neil