I don't know...it looks like a pretty mixed bag to me...
Drysuit Training Poll
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I don't know...it looks like a pretty mixed bag to me...
Did tooooo!
Wait...wait...we don't want to argue...lets take a pole to decide.
lal7176 once bubbled...
I guess we should have known that you are the all mighty scuba god. This board is all about learning and sharing information.If you are annoyed by this thread wouldnt it be better not to participate in it rather than bad mouth somebody for starting a poll.Who knows maybe one day some of us might reach your level of diving and qualifications.Till then why dont you drop your bad attitude and quit taking your frustrations out on other members.
We are touchy today...
I can't respond cuz I'm in the corner :upset:
Dryglove
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Thats settles it.....start a poll.Oh yea i forgot a certain person will get annoyed by it.By the way mechdiver did you skip your coffee or something this morning?
lal7176 once bubbled...
Thats settles it.....start a poll.Oh yea i forgot a certain person will get annoyed by it.By the way mechdiver did you skip your coffee or something this morning?
I'm sorry, I have my very own pole now. You'll have to talk to me over there.
MD (who has his very own pole)
I took the full drysuit course because when I did my Advanced course out in Saskatchewan, we did not do a drysuit dive, they were all done in wetsuits. So, after 73 dives in my wetsuit, I finally decided to purchase a drysuit (read: the winter months came along....). Due to my lack of drysuit knowledge previously, thought it woudl be a good idea to do the course, it wasn't that much more. Although, afterwards I feel that I probably could've learnt it all just by trying and diving and talking to people, I'm still glad I took the course, cause it just made me learn all that much faster and concentrate more on attaining better buoyancy and trim than just how to work the drysuit.
That depends... most LDS drysuit courses will teach you to only use your buoyancy control device for a surface inflated life preserver... and to use your drysuit for a buoyancy control device.ibnygator once bubbled...
but this quote sure makes a lot of sense to me.
I want to know all of the little tricks as soon as possible and not have to find them out on my own. Besides, if you buy from your LDS, the class is thrown in.
Now that lengthens the learning curve considerable... if learning how to correctly use your drysuit is the goal.
Of course if you are content to ride the bubble and wear a correspondingly heavier weight belt whilst rototilling huge trenches in the bottom... then... yes... I guess it shortens the learning curve.
All I would recommend if you don't take the class is to inform the person with whom you may be diving that it is possible that you may disappear in a vertical manner. I went out early last year with someone in a new drysuit. From talking I had assumed that he was reasonably familiar with the operation of the suit. At one point I watched him head to the surface slightly feet up trying to dump air by pressing the dump valve. Afterward it came out that he was signed up to take the class.
JoelW
JoelW
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Hoser/English Translator, eh
all drysuit couses seem to teach using the suit for bouyancy...it just seems dumb.
Why don't the standards teach reality?
I think it is a good idea to have someone go over the new techniques with you and keep an eye out for explosive surfacing but it just doesn't make sense to me to take a course to learn how to do it wrong
Why don't the standards teach reality?
I think it is a good idea to have someone go over the new techniques with you and keep an eye out for explosive surfacing but it just doesn't make sense to me to take a course to learn how to do it wrong
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