I'm seeking info/advice from anyone who has experience about getting certified w/ color deficiency. A young member of our family has recently been diagnosed as broad spectrum color deficient (red/black, red/green, green/brown/orange, and blue/purple/pink). On the plus side, he has excellent contrast vision, an uncanny abilty to "decode" camouflage, excellent depth perception, and ability to distinguish practically every hue of gray. (I expect that one day he'll be an excellent night diver.
He will be a jr. open water diver, thus for now, he will always be accompanied by an experienced adult diver so it may seem like we are putting the cart before the horse, but we want to know what to "teach" him along the way addressing color defiency in diving.
I'm not talking about explaining the pretty colors underwater or improvising for photography. Our family is new to CD (we found out a long lost grand-father had it), so we really didn't know what we should address during his training to make him a safer diver as he matures.
We've done plenty of research on color defiency and understand a lot of the tweaks necessary in every day life, but we haven't found anything that is diving related.
Thank you.
He will be a jr. open water diver, thus for now, he will always be accompanied by an experienced adult diver so it may seem like we are putting the cart before the horse, but we want to know what to "teach" him along the way addressing color defiency in diving.
I'm not talking about explaining the pretty colors underwater or improvising for photography. Our family is new to CD (we found out a long lost grand-father had it), so we really didn't know what we should address during his training to make him a safer diver as he matures.
We've done plenty of research on color defiency and understand a lot of the tweaks necessary in every day life, but we haven't found anything that is diving related.
Thank you.