Which topic from your OW class...

[kidspot]

Which topic(s) from your OW class do you wish you had discussed more in class?

Which one(s) did you feel the manual covered adequately that just became repetitious hearing about again in class?

Mahalo, Tim

 

[TSandM]

I wish we had spent more time on the tables . . . Where they came from and what the numbers mean. One of the questions I asked during OW (I was an annoying student) was why the residual nitrogen time for a given pressure group goes DOWN as the depth of the proposed second dive increases. Nobody could answer me. Turns out the answer lies in the definition of residual nitrogen time, but I didn't find that until I read Lippmann & Mitchell's book.

Of course, I also think we should have touched on gas management and rock bottom

 

[Bill51]

I wish we had spent more time on the tables . . . Where they came from and what the numbers mean.

At least that’s one my students will never complain about – though they might get tired of hearing about Haldane’s goats.

 

[divedadepths]

i wish we had gone over gas consumption and stuff. i didnt even know what a SAC was before i figured it out by reading SB.

 

[cummings66]

I'd say gas planning could have been covered better.

 

[plot]

I'm not sure if gas planning could've used more discussion, or if I just didn't pay attention enough to it at the time becuase I didn't necessarily see their importance. I was more worried with the whole getting under water and still be breathing part, along with bouyancy, remembering my safety stops, how to properly set up my equipment, what depth I can goto and how long I can stay there, mask clearing along with my other skills, as well as those other 1000 things that we all do naturally now, but when starting out with SCUBA, seemed like a huge task.

Really, I'm perfectly happy with what my OW class gave me. It gave me what I needed to know to dive safely. Once I had mastered that, the rest can be covered in other courses, like AOW. What I didn't take away from my AOW was my own fault for not asking, as my instructor was more than happy to elaborate on anything I wanted to know.

 

[scubadobadoo]

Everything could have been covered better. Everything. My OW instructor barely spoke English and had a very thick accent. She used to say in a French accent, "If you lose your body (buddy), you might run out of hair (air)."

This was partly our fault of course as we decided to take a 2 day course in Key West. I don't suggest this method. It wasn't until we came home, took more classes, and started diving here locally that we became somewhat confident. The only thing that got us through the 2 day course was that we spent weeks studying that OW manual. We knew it as well as our instructor going in but even then, it was a long two days and it just wasn't enough time to really get comfy with all the gear and drills.:no

 

[kidspot]

...One of the questions I asked during OW (I was an annoying student) ...

There's one in every group ... in my group it was ...me

 

[dive_lover88]

gas management and bouyancy.

 

[tonka97]

Protection of ear drums.

Result: 40% of my class, that continued to dive, ended up with ruptured eardrums or other significant middle ear issues.

In class we did hear a lot of solicition from instructor to buy their LDS gear though.