packrat12
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Yes 100 dives in 1 year may very well not be near the same experience as 100 dives in 3 years. It is the experiences that happen throughout that are very important. The varying conditions. The issues with gear both above and below water. Watching a variety of other divers actions and attitudes etc. As a mainly Florida diver I am NOT even remotely qualified to do a complex technical dive in the Northeast. I would need additional skills which also translate into experiences. Discipline tells me this, not impatience. It is the variety of what happens in the dives that creates the knowledge needed, not 100 dives in a year. The reflection of previous dives, the applied knowledge from multiple dives and all other things being used to form your sphere of knowledge. These things are what is important.
Another thread you should read is: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/passings/515870-twenty-three-years-rouses.html
Then lookup the previous 22 years of a similar thread. I have read these since 1995 on a yearly basis. They helped form understanding of the seriousness that is technical diving.
I would recommend reading the books, The Last Dive and maybe Deep Descent to get an appreciation of what it means to do technical diving.
To improve mine, I have sought multiple different instructors and listened to all of them during my training path. I have trained with a diver that was on the Rouses' boat that day and heard his stories about that and other dives that have ended tragically. I have sat on the surface with an instructor after making a relatively minor mistake on a deco ascent, listening to him describe how he has lost SEVERAL friends doing technical dives, I appreciated his statements and will never forget it. I saw the expression on his face of sincere sadness at the losses as he saw their faces. All of this is to improve my overall experience level. I remember that on EACH of my technical dives, that if there is a tragedy (my death), my family will suffer my loss as well as financial hardship because it WILL NOT be cover under any life insurance. I waited years to learn so I could make sure my family was financially sound enough to survive my loss if it was technical and therefore not covered by my life insurance policy. We have talked frankly about the risks and rewards of technical diving.
All of us here do not want to read of your passing especially with an impatient approach to entering the technical world that is displayed. We do not want more deaths that are avoidable.
Another thread you should read is: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/passings/515870-twenty-three-years-rouses.html
Then lookup the previous 22 years of a similar thread. I have read these since 1995 on a yearly basis. They helped form understanding of the seriousness that is technical diving.
I would recommend reading the books, The Last Dive and maybe Deep Descent to get an appreciation of what it means to do technical diving.
To improve mine, I have sought multiple different instructors and listened to all of them during my training path. I have trained with a diver that was on the Rouses' boat that day and heard his stories about that and other dives that have ended tragically. I have sat on the surface with an instructor after making a relatively minor mistake on a deco ascent, listening to him describe how he has lost SEVERAL friends doing technical dives, I appreciated his statements and will never forget it. I saw the expression on his face of sincere sadness at the losses as he saw their faces. All of this is to improve my overall experience level. I remember that on EACH of my technical dives, that if there is a tragedy (my death), my family will suffer my loss as well as financial hardship because it WILL NOT be cover under any life insurance. I waited years to learn so I could make sure my family was financially sound enough to survive my loss if it was technical and therefore not covered by my life insurance policy. We have talked frankly about the risks and rewards of technical diving.
All of us here do not want to read of your passing especially with an impatient approach to entering the technical world that is displayed. We do not want more deaths that are avoidable.
