Crush
Contributor
concernediver,
Here are my limited opinions, FWIW:
1. If you are a good cold water, low vis diver, then you are skilled. You will find the transition to warm water/high vis wonderful;
2. If someone pisses you off, don't dive with them - it will spoil your enjoyment of the dive;
3. It sounds like diver one is exceeding his limits of training, both in terms of depth and in terms of penetration. Let's hope that his stupidity doesn't catch up with him in a fatal way;
4. While people may think that their gear configuration is superior, I personally don't like to hear about why their setup is superior and why mine sucks. As long as the gear is appropriate to the environment, I am in favour of letting someone dive whatever floats their boat;
5. Learning tables is required, but I rarely ever use them. Someone is going to tear into me for this, but I believe that understanding the theory behind tables is a more important skill than being able to use tables (provided that you know how to use your computer) since nowadays computers are prolific. This is not to say that you shouldn't need to know how to use tables. However, computers are capable of calculating nitrogen loading in real time and are, in my opinion, superior to tables which assume a square profile.
Here are my limited opinions, FWIW:
1. If you are a good cold water, low vis diver, then you are skilled. You will find the transition to warm water/high vis wonderful;
2. If someone pisses you off, don't dive with them - it will spoil your enjoyment of the dive;
3. It sounds like diver one is exceeding his limits of training, both in terms of depth and in terms of penetration. Let's hope that his stupidity doesn't catch up with him in a fatal way;
4. While people may think that their gear configuration is superior, I personally don't like to hear about why their setup is superior and why mine sucks. As long as the gear is appropriate to the environment, I am in favour of letting someone dive whatever floats their boat;
5. Learning tables is required, but I rarely ever use them. Someone is going to tear into me for this, but I believe that understanding the theory behind tables is a more important skill than being able to use tables (provided that you know how to use your computer) since nowadays computers are prolific. This is not to say that you shouldn't need to know how to use tables. However, computers are capable of calculating nitrogen loading in real time and are, in my opinion, superior to tables which assume a square profile.