Where are you diving this weekend?

[ucfdiver]

I'm looking in my CDS book, on the apprentice limitations it states "Simple penetrations only (limited to 1 jump); no complex navigation plans...."

I don't have the NACD book but this course outline states that apprentice is limited to one jump?

http://www.protecsardinia.com/spip1.82ds/IMG/ApprenticeStandards.pdf

I can't speak for NACD, just thought they were the same as the CDS.

My apprentice card states-

• 130 feet maximum depth
• 1/3 air rule
• 20ft min starting viz
• Limited Decompression (single gas)
• No stage or DPV use
• Max of 1.4 ATA for working portion of dive
• Max of 1.6 ATA for decompression

That's from NACD. But more importantly from what the standards say I can or can't do, we were definitely trained doing multiple jumps.

 

[marchand]

"9. SKILLS/EXERCISES:

A. At both Apprentice Cave Diver and Cave Diver Levels: ...

13. Multiple jumps/gaps, requiring the use of several reels on the same dive...

10. LIMITS: ...

E. Simple jumps and gaps only- no circuits or traverses. "

In two places that course outline either states or implies that apprentice divers can do more than one jump per standards.

Honestly, I couldn't care less what the jump limit is for an apprentice diver. There is nothing more complicated about a second, third, or even tenth jump than the first. If someone isn't capable of making a second jump they should never of made the first one.

 

[marchand]

Na, we'll hold off on that room, let's do some of the easier stuff first

Ok, how about we go to double domes through hill 400?

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

This weekend? Maybe a beach dive in Destin...

Got some good ones last weekend in Wakulla, traversed through 6 different sinks throughout the dive, always fun to see the lightzone ahead of you

 

[InkDiver]

Honestly, I couldn't care less what the jump limit is for an apprentice diver. There is nothing more complicated about a second, third, or even tenth jump than the first.

Wrong. The number of jumps increases the complexity of the dive and quite possibly the complexity of the navigation.

At the apprentice level "multiple jumps and gaps along multiple lines should be avoided at this level." (p 93 NACD manual)

There's a reason for that.

 

[willardj]

No place this weekend, but Jackson Blue the following weekend.

 

[sskasser]

Ginnie and maybe some other little hole in the ground this weekend, Jupiter next weekend, and Parris Island the week after that.

 

[eandiver]

Manatee Springs/Catfish Hotel yesterday.

 

[contender]

Wrong. The number of jumps increases the complexity of the dive and quite possibly the complexity of the navigation.

At the apprentice level "multiple jumps and gaps along multiple lines should be avoided at this level." (p 93 NACD manual)

There's a reason for that.

Correct,
Seems like some of the new kids still have some learning to do. There will come a time when he will reflect back on those words if he does this sport long enough.

 

[marchand]

I would love to know what about a second or third jump makes the dive more complex.