Entries from Mark's Dive Log tagged with 'Training'
For Deeper Service, Just Add Helium
This time a year ago I was busy chewing through the PADI Tec Deep Diver course work and thinking about how much information we were expected to know. We learned fun acronyms like "Being Wary Reduces All Failures", "a Good...
Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None
Most scuba certification agencies have a Master Scuba Diver certification. For most, the requirements are 50 logged dives and some number of specialties. Most require either Advanced Open Water or Rescue Diver certification. NAUI doesn't require any specialties, but requires...
More Double Trouble
When I started my dry suit class, everyone told me that learning to dive in a dry suit was like starting all over again, and they were right. So when I was told learning to dive in doubles is like...
Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble
I supposed the first skill a technical diver has to learn is how to dive in doubles. I get that opportunity this weekend. So, even though I had a brief taste of some technical dive training when we did the...
Run Dry, Run Deep
This was an intense weekend of diving: nine dives in two days... The purpose of the weekend was to the certification dives for the dry suit and deep specialties. We did the dry suit dives first to make the deep...
Nitrox Training
I finished my PADI Enriched Air Diver course today. Not a particularly difficult course. Maybe I'm just used to pilot training, but scuba training seems pretty weak. Basically, for Nitrox training, you learn a couple of rules, learn how to...
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