Do you mind if I use this in the real world sometimes please Marie13
I'll be appropriate with it and do it proud
Thanks
Have at it! Must be said with much sarcasm. Adding some profanity makes it even better!
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Do you mind if I use this in the real world sometimes please Marie13
I'll be appropriate with it and do it proud
Thanks
When I tock my PADI Nitrox cert in Sweden (my only PADI card BTW) I did not do any dives, but the divecenter that arranged the cource had dives as an option, and the extra cost was less than doing the same dives outside of the cource. Whit that in mind I think it is a good idea to do a couple of dives inside the cource, hey, more dives is always better.Who had a nitrox class that required dives? As far as I can tell, this might be be more of a non-US thing from the people who've said they've done nitrox class dives.
And why dives? It's not terribly complicated...once you know how to figure out your mod on the chart, analyze tanks, and set your computer for the specific %, it's just a matter of making sure you don't exceed your MOD on actual dives.
2. The PADI course used to have long term O2 exposure tables as part of the course. The only question I missed on the 50 question test involved using that table. One thing I learned from that class was that to get into trouble on that table, you had to be doing a really, really serious set of dives. But that is not all. According to an email I go from PADI earlier this year, research after that indicated that if you are diving at the 1.4 standard, you can pretty much dive all day without a problem. That table was thus teaching something that was simply not necessary. Not only that, I learned not long ago that the NOAA O2 exposure tables is pretty much a wild guess--there was almost no science behind it when it was created.
In other words, people who rely on remembering and using that training are all too likely to make a mistake, and they are much better off looking things up.
This shows the level of transition in the subject, as can be seen in this thread.Granted neither of these are huge deals, I just wish PADI taught this because overall the PADI Nitrox course felt like "I paid $175 for this?"
Pretty much every place that sells nitrox has a chart like that hanging on the wall.Reading all of the nitrox info I can ahead of the class, I came across a chart that shows PPO2 and MOD for EANx mixes from 21% up to 40%.
I just wish PADI taught this because overall the PADI Nitrox course felt like "I paid $175 for this?"
2. The PADI course used to have long term O2 exposure tables as part of the course.
To be fair, PADI doesn't teach Nitrox, or any other course for that matter. Your instructor does. PADI just provides the training materials.
I always let my students know the minimum requirements and what additional information I am willing to teach beyond the minimums for the course. Last week I had a student take me up on my offer and we went through all the tables and the math and did every possible calculation for MOD, best mix, PPO2, EAD, O2 Exposure, etc. We did it both metric & imperial. She was then able to teach it to another student.
Most students are perfectly happy to just buy a Nitrox cert. You appear to be one of those students who actually want to learn something.