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ray
20-12-2005, 19:03
Hi.

How receptive is your club to technical diving and all things related?.:rolleyes:

Are there older members who do not want it within the branch?.:mad:

How many of you in your local branch are there who get involved with this kind of diving?. And would you?.:p
Steve Pearson
20-12-2005, 19:07
The senior qualified members of ours do, but we're only a small new club

Steve
Paul Beal
20-12-2005, 19:38
Those of us who are the most qualified in the club are all doing extended range nitrox dives with plenty of bottom time and lots of decompression. We seem to work as a very good team to support each other. I think 4-6 of us would do a trimix course if we could afford it. So the brakes are definitely off!

Paul
Adrian Kelland
20-12-2005, 19:42
Those of us who are the most qualified in the club are all doing extended range nitrox dives with plenty of bottom time and lots of decompression. We seem to work as a very good team to support each other. I think 4-6 of us would do a trimix course if we could afford it. So the brakes are definitely off!

Paul
Likewise, we are the ones leading now.
Nigel Hewitt
20-12-2005, 19:47
How receptive is your club to technical diving and all things related?As the DO organised a Normoxic Trimix OC course I guess we are a bit....
James - Narked@50
20-12-2005, 19:59
Just a few individuals, it is not the way the club is run or heading, but things change.

James
IainC
20-12-2005, 20:18
Those of us who are the most qualified in the club are all doing extended range nitrox dives with plenty of bottom time and lots of decompression.

Likewise my club (actually Paul is counted in that number, but I know his spiritual home is in Leeds :-) )
A few Trimix qualified recently, but so far not really used in anger, we have plans...
Most diving training or suitable for all though.
No resistance, but it is only an obsession for a few of us.
PeteM
20-12-2005, 21:08
Few of us do Trimix, a few more do extended range.

Of the active "senior" divers most are in that group or are cool about them (i'm in the group the DPO does not give me too much grief about it)
MattS
20-12-2005, 21:27
How receptive is your club to technical diving and all things related?We have had a contingent for the last 10 years. It's expanded quite a bit in the last 3 years.
Are there older members who do not want it within the branch?Not that I am aware of. We have had one or two older members get technical in their own way using nitrox and a pony instead of a single 12ltr of air. We did have one guy who thought 'Nitrox is for divers that don't know how to breathe air properly' He is now with the SAA ;) Our DO has been diving around 25 years and is currently interested in ERD courses - not sure what they will make of his ABLJ though.
How many of you in your local branch are there who get involved with this kind of diving?I guess some are more technical than others. There are about 1/3 regularly carrying twins and stages (about 20 people). About half a dozen Trimix and a couple CCRs.
and would you?.Since about 98.

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Paul Oliver
20-12-2005, 23:16
Well, i'm the DO and very much into ERD stuff, and i will do Trimix, just cannot justify and afford it at the moment.

I have one other i have been taking down an ERD route, and 1 x YBOD diver.

As a club though our diving is around 30m, off Rhibs, off Dover, and a single 15L of 32% plus a 3L Pony does very well for us :)
paul w
21-12-2005, 05:04
We are a small club in the NE of scotland.

Some divers have done a nitrox course but rarely dive it, the most the use is a 15l and pony no twins, And all are happy with that arrangement, part form a couple who are thinking bout trimix

myself i went scr with a drager dolphin a year ago and it was recieved no problems within the club and recently bought a YBOD and i am currently gonig thru the training for that ,....again recieved no problems within the club even by the older or even founder member (only 1 left).
Paul Rosendale
24-12-2005, 15:01
Hi.

How receptive is your club to technical diving and all things related?.:rolleyes:

Are there older members who do not want it within the branch?.:mad:

How many of you in your local branch are there who get involved with this kind of diving?. And would you?.:p


Hi Ray,

Our club is quite active on the Tech front. I like to think we are very receptive to all technical diving.

A proportion of the technical group are the older members, so no problems there.

Depends what your definition of "this type of diving" is. I think we have 8, (hopefully 10 by end of jan) ccr trimix, various twin sets and a small group of 4 Full cave divers, plus general Nitrox stuff.

Well thats our tally

Cheers

Paul