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Mark Chase)
Strange when I read Clare's report on the changes it read that thats exactly why it was changed.
Not in the slightest Mark - although I may certainly have said that one of the advantages of the drill is that a diver is no longer running the risk of closing all his valves at the same time - which can happen when our brain takes a walk for a while....
The Valve drill was changed because breathing your backup whilst shutting down your left post just would not happen in real life - and led to all sorts of "do I unclip my primary first" questions which made the Training Council realise that a better way of practicing should be found. Whilst it is a "drill" it's nice that now we practice to purge our left post if we have shut it off - exactly as we would do in a real situation.
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The PLB thread is a case in point. We have Tec2 level GUE divers saying "we don't do up lines if we cant drift deco we don't dive" and JJ puting a section in his traiing manual about doing up lines?? Most odd
Dunno if this is aimed at me after our chat in the pub - but Bob and I have agreed to come out on the Delta boat and give it a go remember....
Thing is if other Tech 2 divers say that they don't want to do station deco that is their choice. Their reluctance has less to do with whether it is DIR or not and more that they simply can't be bothered
I've certainly never seen or heard any suggestion that DIR divers can't carry PLBs - not from the agency anyway. I always carry a spare mask, a spare spool, spare double ender, and quite often a spare SMB as well. Seems a bit silly not to - I know my team can get me out if I lose my mask but why go to all that hassle when I can carry a spare. If my team mate loses one - well he can have my spare if he doesn't have one of his own.
It's too easy to confuse statements on the internet by people who support the DIR system of diving with statements about the system itself.
When it comes to moving stages around - good lord that poor guy who dropped on on his training course - will he ever live it down? Let's be charitable and reasonable shall we and remind ourselves that if you can't make mistakes on a training course when can you?