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Originally Posted by Coyote
Mixed gas or common air breather, Shipmate? You obviously are serious about it now. I was a PADI “hobby-lobber” before Going to Panama City Dive school a long time ago. Sharks and Daisies was not a drill I was taught by PADI.
As a former Marine, I was not involved with the bilge yuck of ports and below water line ship work but always felt for Shipmates diving pierside or at port anchorage that did that work. I wouldn’t ever let a SF Army trained Marine Diver be Dive Sup. The Navy trained guys had the repetitive dive tables beat into them.
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Was a submarine ship's diver, so 21% 98% of the time, 36% 2% of the time. And yeah, diving the boat in places like Naples, Groton, Norfolk, and even Charleston, were pretty terrible. But diving the rest of the waters in the Med., the waters near Oslo, fjords, and (very) far north, was worth every shit-hole and every shit dive I ever had to do... And squeezing into the ballast tanks was ALWAYS A JOY!!!
Speaking of tables and beating them into people.... My younger son just spent a couple of hours last night working tables (SSI and PADI), just to brush-up on the skill. I won't lie, it's fun, but it's important too. He, like me, has become to comfortable with the dive computers! And with most days being 4-dive days, being limited to 32%, and one 5-dive day, I want him to understand/be reminded of how much graduated dives and SIs matter. If you don't pay attention, the Suunto will have its way with you and you'll be a bobber and telling jokes with the topside watch. That being said, even with Suunto's crazy-careful algorithm, it gives you LOTS of time you wouldn't get if you use a pencil..