World's Highest Diving Certification?

[Blackwood]

I don't know, who?

Certainly not me.

 

[formula1mb@aol.com]

....JJ has the world record in Cave...
Regards,
DanV

Wasn't the world record for cave penetration just broken?

European cave diving team sets world record : Global Adventures, LLC

 

[muddiver]

Who certifies NAUI Course Directors?

I think the OP was asking a question about "rank" as it were, not "who's the best diver."

To me, it's the people who certify the people who certify the people who certify people.

For GUE it's Jarrod Jablonski (director of training).
For UTD it's Andrew Georgitsis (training director).
For SEI it's Tom Leaird (CEO)
For IANTD it's Tom Mount (?)

etc..

None of those people have saturation experience, therfore they are not at the top of the heap.

 

[Scott L]

Wasn't the world record for cave penetration just broken?

European cave diving team sets world record : Global Adventures, LLC

Ha! They stayed in what sounds like a Holiday Inn Express for two nights near sump #2.

 

[danvolker]

None of those people have saturation experience, therfore they are not at the top of the heap.

So 6 to 8 hours at 280 feet is not enough saturation to be significant?
DanV

 

[Wookie]

None of those people have saturation experience, therfore they are not at the top of the heap.

You meant they don't have saturation experience warm and dry in a chamber on the deck of the boat watching TV and eating oilfield chow. Lots of those guys have spent chilly wet nights in 55 gallon drum habitats deep in caves where if the habitat failed they would be dead before they could get back into dive gear.

Just sayin'

 

[Slamfire]

Altitude Diver

As soon as I read the thread title I thought, "not again, not another specialty card... this time they even messed with Lake Titicaca -- Lake Titicaca World's Highest Diving Specialty Card"

 

[Superlyte27]

You meant they don't have saturation experience warm and dry in a chamber on the deck of the boat watching TV and eating oilfield chow. Lots of those guys have spent chilly wet nights in 55 gallon drum habitats deep in caves where if the habitat failed they would be dead before they could get back into dive gear.

Just sayin'

Chambers are warm and dry? Wow, not in my experience. Sure they are warm as you are being put under pressure, but as they are being vented and as you are surfacing, they are friggin cold and damp as hell.

-Edit, as I think about that statement, I realize that the coldest I've ever been in my life was in a chamber coming up from depth. Granted I had just spent 4 hours in 30 degree water, but still. It was not warm and dry in the chamber, hehe.

 

[Blackwood]

None of those people have saturation experience, therfore they are not at the top of the heap.

Yah, I neglected commercial divers in my response. Shouldn't have done so, though I know nothing about it.

 

[Akimbo]

My vote would be on the Chief Petty Officer in charge of training for Navy Clearance Divers... something in PSD or Scientific... nothing in the sport or tech arenas

If you are going to discuss the military, then Master Divers at EDU (Naval Experimental Diving Unit) should be considered. EDU has always been one of the most prestigious duty posts for any US Navy diver, in addition to being shore-duty in Panama City, Florida.

Edit: Of course, diving supervisors are not necessarily the most effective military or commercial divers when it comes to getting a job done. Very often the skill sets are different.