LMAO…A DSD to 100 ft. that is funny. Anyways, I’m sure somewhere in all of our dive careers we have all done something unsafe. My issue with that is not her doing it so much as saying that she did it and is a dive professional and the examples that may set. So an AOW that dives once a year sees that and starts to think that it is acceptable to dive your computer limits and that the tables are only suggestions etc. That is just one of the points that you try to drill in when teaching then an AI mentions something like that and some may start to think that it might be OK. Then our liability insurance goes up once again
[quote]duece wrote:
LMAO…A DSD to 100 ft. that is funny. Anyways, I’m sure somewhere in all of our dive careers we have all done something unsafe. My issue with that is not her doing it so much as saying that she did it and is a dive professional and the examples that may set. So an AOW that dives once a year sees that and starts to think that it is acceptable to dive your computer limits and that the tables are only suggestions etc. That is just one of the points that you try to drill in when teaching then an AI mentions something like that and some may start to think that it might be OK. Then our liability insurance goes up once again
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Sometimes even professionals push their limits. Hell, some of the “professionals” I’ve come across are the ones driving up insurance costs.
But stupid people will do stupid things irrespective of what I say and do. If some 150lb-when-wet bloke sees a video of a seasoned lifter pushing 400lb + fully equipped with spotters and decides he can do a better job himself do you blame the lifter?
And totally back OT… Mr. Moose do you teach the TDI Nitrox course? And if you do hw do you think it compares to the PADI equivalent?
Back when I got my OWSI I also became a TDI Nitrox instructor and I think I’ve done 1 TDI cert so I’m definately no expert. I believe the PADI course was based off the TDI one because so many PADI instructors were requesting one to actually reduce their insurance costs. Many instructors I know only teach PADI now for various reasons (certs towards MI etc.). The simple answer is that both Nitrox courses are almost identical but I am not sure about the extended range, trimix etc.
[quote]duece wrote:
Back when I got my OWSI I also became a TDI Nitrox instructor and I think I’ve done 1 TDI cert so I’m definately no expert. I believe the PADI course was based off the TDI one because so many PADI instructors were requesting one to actually reduce their insurance costs. Many instructors I know only teach PADI now for various reasons (certs towards MI etc.). The simple answer is that both Nitrox courses are almost identical but I am not sure about the extended range, trimix etc.[/quote]
Ah ok. Is it true that the TDI cert requires no actual Nitrox dives for qualification or is that another certifying agency? One school I used to work for used to have a TDI/ PADI instructor and he used to teach one course in winter time when the weather was too bad to dive in and PADI in the summer.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never really found any huge benefit of diving nitrox over regular air, and it’s still too damned expensive to dive with all the time over here!
Speaking of tech diving, how does one go about getting the proper certs? Does one need to be a divemaster or instructor before being able to surpass the recreational depth of 130?
so I’m definately no expert. I believe the PADI course was based off the TDI one because so many PADI instructors were requesting one to actually reduce their insurance costs. Many instructors I know only teach PADI now for various reasons (certs towards MI etc.). The simple answer is that both Nitrox courses are almost identical but I am not sure about the extended range, trimix etc.