whats that?
Interesting what autocorrect did there (and I didn't look). My bad..
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whats that?
It’s not advisable when doing dives that are too deep, of course.
Hello. I met my instructor this morning to discuss my February diving plan. For the context, I started diving on Nov 3rd, got OW certified in late nov then AOW in late december. 48 dives so far all in the ocean. Took Perfect Buoyancy, React Right, Science of Diving and Deep Diving courses. For the next month, I wanted to do Stress & Rescue and Nitrox courses but then I realized that the Nitrox course is theory only. And when I looked in details, I could not find the added value compared to the Science of Diving Course. If this is only about learning Nitrogen Narcosis, Oxygen toxicity, Partial Pressures, Diving tables, Oxygen service, Oxygen clean, equipment compatibility concepts that are already taught in Science of Diving or that can easily be learnt reading (SB among others), what's the point?
True, make some easy dives without instructor.Hi Dody,
As others have already said. Just go do some diving outside of instruction and stop worrying about certs for the time being. Of your 48 dives how many have been without the supervision of an instructor/DM?
Right. The only additional thing that I identified was Tank analysis. Watching MOD is also taught in SSI Deep Diving and setting the computer for nitrox should not require a dedicated course, should it?
About 10 with a DM as company rather than supervisor. About 10 just with my buddy.Hi Dody,
As others have already said. Just go do some diving outside of instruction and stop worrying about certs for the time being. Of your 48 dives how many have been without the supervision of an instructor/DM?
In fact, there is no Nitrox here. Local dive shops say it is an unnecessary investment (new compressor,...). But I plan to do liveaboard in the near future and for some Nitrox is compulsory. That’s the only reason I considered it.True, make some easy dives without instructor.
Like previously said, the nitrox cert is a good one. Not that u will learn a lot, but u probably need it to fill nitrox.i took it just after owd and didnt regret it
In fact, there is no Nitrox here. Local dive shops say it is an unnecessary investment (new compressor,...). But I plan to do liveaboard in the near future and for some Nitrox is compulsory. That’s the only reason I considered it.
I am not sure I understand the question. I have never done it before so I assume that you mean you can’t enter the exact value, that some computers can handle decimals. Theoretically, if it was the case, I would be conservative and use the next digit up for the sake of MOD. However, for NDL and computer entry, that should be the other way around so I will round down. I need my computer to calculate the nitrogen exposure. MOD, I can deal with it myself.Question for the OP, if you analyze your gas and the result is 32.4%, what value do you use as an input to your computer? What if it is 32.7%? Why?