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Consider this line stolen. Thanks.There is more than one way to skin a cat, although the cat never likes it.
Yea right, if you think your dive shop can get this money ... even their insurance will fight and your survivors are unlikely to see the money soon
Or is it more efficient in the US ?
There's a couple of charters here in NC that "require" a deep cert. to dive with them past 60 feet. No matter that I've been diving for 20 years and can bring all 4 of my log books to show dives to 120+ feet, they don't care. Most likely it's a liability precaution to help keep the slime bag lawyers serving papers off their doorsteps. I replied to one of their facebook posts that they had slots to fill on their boat, but no dice as I didnt' have a "PADI Deep Cert" to dive to their 80 feet.
"My client was an idiot and only had 1 dive (in a pool) and you let him dive to 80 feet, so you own my client's widow $281,322,912,567 million dollars because you were grossly negligent."
Same thing with the "We don't fill 6351 cylinders older than 1989.
I think it all depends on the person, I was doing dives to 30m/100 ft in my first 20 dives. Within my first 10 dives I was almost exclusively diving doubles with a back plate and wing, by 50 more than half my dives required deco, some of which is done on O2. I think we need to move past the notion that number of dives equals competence and experience and focuse more on someone’s abilities.
Furthermore, I think scuba training is severely lacking in an understanding on decompression and decompression theory, every diver should have an understanding in the off chance a dive goes awry.
While I agree with you that it depends on the person I think its far from the normal and irresponsible to post something like this in basic scuba. did you have any deco training or did you just wing it? If you did manage to get an entry level tech course with a good instructor finished in 25 total dives Im impressed. BIG emphasis on a good instructor.
Any entry level tech class is 6-10 dives and OW and AOW is 10 dives so basically you had 5 dives by yourself before you were doing exclusive deco dives some with accelerated deco?
Who was it? Others might want to know....Did I have a questionable instructor? Absolutely not, I sought recamendation from local instructors in my area, on who to go to in Florida. The instructor I chose, teaches all open circuit Tec courses, to include full cave.
In the mediterranean since there is no coral reef the wrecks are mostly quite deep and some species live mostly at -40 or more, for example lobsters or what we call St Peter's Fish or "John Dory" in English
John Dory - Wikipedia
But my main and right now only reason to get the Deep Dive is to go to the Haven wreck in Arenzano (Genova). The top of the sunken ship is visible from about 35 or 40 meters, theoreticallly with an AOW it would be already possible to do the dive in terms of skills but of course the diving centers do not allow people to go there unless they have already the Deep Dive
I am aware that -40 meters is already different from -30 and it implies more risks, I would go -40 only together with the instructors and under their supervision
There are some dive centers in Croatia that will not take you to some sites without Deep Diver card, whether from PADI or any other agency that have such certification. You mostly stay shallower, but nevertheless, since bottom is way down and you have an opportunity to go deep, you won't be taken without that card (of course, if you're CMAS ** all is good).
Another "let's invent our own rules" example. Safety stop is not mandatory. Period.
Someone started with 18 or 30 meters limit, and now it is a rule of business. I wonder how long it will be before safety stops become mandatory?