FB posting - standards violations - how many can you pick out?

[Marie13]

How they did things in the dark ages is not how they are done now.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

There were classes way back then in the early 2000s. There are also lots of divers making the kinds of dives you are training for without classes. Believe it or not, many actually survived those dives. They just don't post on Scubaboard or Facebook.

 

[Marie13]

There were classes way back then in the early 2000s. There are also lots of divers making the kinds of dives you are training for without classes. Believe it or not, many actually survived those dives. They just don't post on Scubaboard or Facebook.

Do you understand that I don’t own my own dive boat and I don’t own my own compressor. I never will. In order to do the dives I want to do off charter boats and to get the needed fills, I need to have tech certs. Period. No tech certs, the boats don’t let you do tech dives. No tech cert, no fills other than air or up to 40% nitrox.

That’s just a fact of life.

 

[Wookie]

How they did things in the dark ages is not how they are done now.

How things were done in the dark ages is still how things are done now.

In addition, there is another way, the path you are taking. Which isn’t wrong, but isn’t exclusive.

 

[Storker]

What specific skills would those be that aren’t learned in thousands of OW non deco dives and practiced on a daily (or at least a dive daily) basis?

Like I said, I don't know. I'm not there, and I don't even know what I don't know.

 

[Celt]

Amazing how much people can tell from a Facebook photo without ever meeting the person. We didn’t see how the dive was conducted. Those people could be like fish in the water.

 

[johndiver999]

Do you understand that I don’t own my own dive boat and I don’t own my own compressor. I never will. In order to do the dives I want to do off charter boats and to get the needed fills, I need to have tech certs. Period. No tech certs, the boats don’t let you do tech dives. No tech cert, no fills other than air or up to 40% nitrox.

That’s just a fact of life.

It sounds like you are feeling it is necessary to "defend" the pursuit of a rigorous and progressive training regime specified by an agency.

On the other hand, there are quite a few people who feel that the requisite skills and knowledge can be acquired on an informal basis and outside of agency classes.

I don't view those two perspectives as necessarily in conflict with each other.

 

[Wookie]

It sounds like you are feeling it is necessary to "defend" the pursuit of a rigorous and progressive training regime specified by an agency.

On the other hand, there are quite a few people who feel that the requisite skills and knowledge can be acquired on an informal basis and outside of agency classes.

I don't view those two perspectives as necessarily in conflict with each other.

As Marie has stated, she needs a card. Therefore she must follow the procedures to obtain one.

 

[Marie13]

It sounds like you are feeling it is necessary to "defend" the pursuit of a rigorous and progressive training regime specified by an agency.

On the other hand, there are quite a few people who feel that the requisite skills and knowledge can be acquired on an informal basis and outside of agency classes.

I don't view those two perspectives as necessarily in conflict with each other.

Dude doesn’t get that even if I wanted the informal basis, I have no choice. I actually enjoy the learning and the work, in any case. And as I mentioned earlier I know someone who lost his informal garage sourced Trimix. In order to keep diving Trimix, he had to take the class. NOT having the certs seems to be limiting in some instances.

 

[Ouvea]

As I mentioned, both divers are shown wearing backmounted ponies. Terribly configured, but they do have a redundant source of gas.

So the black cylindrical thing on the lady's steel tank a another cylinder? Couldn't figure what that was. I thought it was one of those DPVs that can be attached to your cylinder. I have never seen a pony bottle mounted in this manner. I have always seen them off to the left or to the right of the primary cylinder and with the valve pointed upward toward the head of the diver. Would anyone know the reason for this configuration?

Also, the deco cylinder has a green label and a green regulator. Does this automatically mean 100% O2 or does it imply another mixture? I'm rather confused by these setups. Is the MOD label not a requirement for NAUI? I adhere to GUE equipment standards but have been in the water with plenty of TDI divers as well. Apart from the gas mixtures we employ, all of our bottles were labeled nearly in the same manner with an analysis sticker and an MOD label. I thought this was the norm for deco bottle markings across all agencies teaching technical diving.