Supporting our local dive shops

[JBFG]

You can have multiple people on a video call, but the students would still need access to a tank with an unknown % to test for the class itself.

But at least you could do the classroom portion. This is applicable to a lot of scuba class.

 

[Bierstadt]

I just got my tank farm vip'd and ordered a fill card. Doing what I can. This is a hard time for northern dive shops to be shut down, just as classes are about to kick off.

 

[eleniel]

But at least you could do the classroom portion. This is applicable to a lot of scuba class.

Definitely, it just doesn't cover all aspects of everything. I could see it working well for a lot of the more theoretical portions/courses (like fish identification, as a random example).

My local shop was talking about doing a modified OW course where everyone does all the elearning over the next couple weeks and they schedule 2 students at a time to come in for pool sessions with the instructor. Skills like air sharing done using regs attached to separate tanks that hadn't been used, etc, and face to face discussions via video conferencing.

 

[JBFG]

Yep. and that way you can support your LDS, employ instructors, and maintain social distancing. win win win?

 

[abnfrog]

lots of courses can be done 90% online BUT you have to have some face time with a prudent instructor , like @rhwestfall said you need to show the instructor that you can analysis gas correctly , so how would the instructor know what the tank actually has in it ?

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

Some instructors do nitrox via Skype. Not sure how they arrange for a student to get a nitrox tank.

 

[abnfrog]

there are lots of instructors don't play by the rules ..I choose to think most do

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

there are lots of instructors don't play by the rules ..I choose to think most do

You don’t think an instructor can demonstrate how to calibrate a sensor and measure a cylinder and verify that a student is able to do so via Skype? And fill out the paperwork?

The main hurdles are the logistics are getting an o2 analyzer and nitrox cylinders to the students.

 

[TMHeimer]

Seems simpler to wait for it all to blow over, but I'm stating the obvious.

 

[RogueClimber]

how do you test an unknown tank?

The same way you would test a known tank????

I analyze my tanks because I don't know (trust) what is in them until I verify it myself.