Which first--full cave or normoxic trimix?

[Taliena]

I am curious what you should advise for a holiday combined with some TDI or IANTD courses:
-2 weeks and do cavern, intro-to-cave and full cave course
or
-2 weeks and do advanced nitrox and normoxic trimix.

What do you prefer?
Diver has some experience with a twinset, has around 250 dives, and of course a lot of drysuitexperience.

 

[rongoodman]

Which will be more useful for your subsequent diving?

 

[BabyDuck]

two weeks would be possible to go to full cave, but tough. of the two, i'd do mix in that time frame.

 

[ajduplessis]

I have always been in favor of trimix first, get some experience and then do cave, but that just me.

 

[PfcAJ]

Would not recommend a straight through cave class.

 

[ucfdiver]

Would not recommend a straight through cave class.

Or normoxic + full trimix. When that AL80 which lasts an hour on tropical dives lasts <10 minutes at depth-- and that's during a NON emergency, you'll appreciate building up some time at the normoxic trimix level.

 

[manni-yunk]

Just my 2 cents. I finished normoxic Trimix a few weeks back. Im thinking cave for next year. I would say trimix first, but that mostly because trimix is much more applicable to my local diving. The cave class for me has nothing to do with doing cave dives on a regular basis, but more to become a better diver in general.

 

[HIGHwing]

-2 weeks and do cavern, intro-to-cave and full cave course...

That's a noble goal. I would encourage the Trimix course of the two options presented.

 

[Tug]

Just my 2 cents. I finished normoxic Trimix a few weeks back. Im thinking cave for next year. I would say trimix first, but that mostly because trimix is much more applicable to my local diving. The cave class for me has nothing to do with doing cave dives on a regular basis, but more to become a better diver in general.

I'm in the same situation myself. I'm about halfway through a normoxic class and am thinking of cavern and intro next year.

My advice would be to go for Trimix first then cave, but that all depends on what would suit your diving best.


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[GDI]

Why not do the cavern portion of the cave series of classes then go for the trimix.

This way you will build up a solid foundation of skills with some task loading expectations/experience and some problem management skills.

Also you would get a sense of a cave(ern) environment without committing to far along the path of your goals