CaptnDale
May 13th, 2008, 02:15 PM
I think you guys are missing the point of this class, it is not a technical class. It does not deal with decompresion. It does state that it is a recreational class. Does't PADI and all the other training agencies have a deep specialty class? Wouldn't it be safer for the students to be a little less narced when down at these depths? Wasn't nitrox something only tech divers used fifteen years ago? Maybe this is the next step for rec diving. Duane, go ahead and advertise this class and try to make diving safer.
I think, at least for the time being, that Recreational Triox is still in the realm of technical diving or somewhere between recreational and technical. All diving deals with decompression and any diver using trimix, no matter what marketing name you give it, must understand that helium is very unforgiving to anyone who forgets that. I see divers every day who do deep dives that require staged decompression who are totally untrained to do it properly. They go in the water with no plan except to follow their computers, but once into their dives they overextend their bottom times. Many times they are forced to surface without doing their stops because of lack of adequate gas supplies. The risks associated with this kind of diving, as long as they are using only oxygen-nitrogen mixes are not great. But what happens when they add helium to the mix? Without technical skills in planning and staged decompression, do we really think they will approach diving triox any differently? How many of these divers, with their new Triox Diver cards, think that they can now safely do deep trimix dives?
I am not necessarily opposed to Recreational Triox. I just have some concerns that I have not had answered to my satisfaction.
I think, at least for the time being, that Recreational Triox is still in the realm of technical diving or somewhere between recreational and technical. All diving deals with decompression and any diver using trimix, no matter what marketing name you give it, must understand that helium is very unforgiving to anyone who forgets that. I see divers every day who do deep dives that require staged decompression who are totally untrained to do it properly. They go in the water with no plan except to follow their computers, but once into their dives they overextend their bottom times. Many times they are forced to surface without doing their stops because of lack of adequate gas supplies. The risks associated with this kind of diving, as long as they are using only oxygen-nitrogen mixes are not great. But what happens when they add helium to the mix? Without technical skills in planning and staged decompression, do we really think they will approach diving triox any differently? How many of these divers, with their new Triox Diver cards, think that they can now safely do deep trimix dives?
I am not necessarily opposed to Recreational Triox. I just have some concerns that I have not had answered to my satisfaction.