this bloody thread will be 1,000 pages long by next summerThis can't possibly be correct! Aren't we supposed to have a fight that nitpicks the most minute detail and lasts for the next 20 pages?
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this bloody thread will be 1,000 pages long by next summerThis can't possibly be correct! Aren't we supposed to have a fight that nitpicks the most minute detail and lasts for the next 20 pages?
I haven’t yet seen an open water training area where I can use a wheeled cart to transport doubles from the truck to right next to the training area. We have bleachers to help gear up poolside as well.
Hot showers too after a long session.
Not bragging because it’s nothing to brag about, but I can meet those requirements at one site.I haven’t yet seen an open water training area where I can use a wheeled cart to transport doubles from the truck to right next to the training area. We have bleachers to help gear up poolside as well.
it’s also a means of controlling the skill proficiency. Don’t go to any kind of open water until skill proficiency is achieved in the pool.
Hot showers too after a long session.
Logistics are also usually better. I haven’t yet seen an open water training area where I can use a wheeled cart to transport doubles from the truck to right next to the training area.
Are you new to Scubaboard? Actually,Your post count is higher than mine, but this seems to be the usual order of business for Scubaboard to me. Thank goodness she didn't post a "training video" of the "pool sessions"! We would be on page 20 by now.I'm blown away that this turned from someone's first hand experience of what they are going through or about to go through into "to pool or not to pool"?
Threads like these allow people like myself to live vicariously through someone else and dream a little.
Who cares where you learn the skills? I thought the point was to get them? Everywhere is different. Temperatures, cultures, instructors. How someone learns to dive is based off of where they live and what they have access to. What happened to dive and let dive?
To be clear the pool work does NOT replace any open water time at all, so unless your course has the first dive at 40m then I’m not sure we are on the same page here.Pool then 40m off Brighton. What could possibly go wrong?
I dont want to detract from what your doing cos i know by reading your posts you put you heart and soul into your diving - but every instructor i know gets frustrated by the poor standard of expertise that they encounter from divers who have certifications form various courses and agencies that have been trained in a (lets say) consumer friendly way that are completely out of their depth when the conditions arent perfect or when theyre are under the slightest pressure. Decompression diving is a whole new and unforgiving arena, being well trained and prepared is non negotiable“Real water” is freshwater here - in the big lake out yonder that might throw up 23ft waves tomorrow. In comparison, the storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald is said to have had 25-30ft waves.
Class checkout dives on the Great Lakes are uncommon. The only place I know that regularly does them is Diver’s Den in Tobermory , which does them in a shallow, sheltered harbor (40ft deep at most) that has really neat old wooden tugboat wrecks. And that’s for OW classes.