Quote: (Originally Posted by
AD_ward9)
A majority of people on that list are really experienced divers. Trimix, cave etc (not counting, but scanning down it).
One is a Nobel Prize Winner.
Lots of PhDs.
Medical doctors.
As people get older, they tend to forget things. Especially if they have been doing very deep diving. Time goes faster. Those people are most unlikely to be told by some "spring chicken", "sorry you are too far over the hill to dive CCRs."
If the user is good enough to pass your tech course, all well and good, he can get the codes and program to reset the service timer for his unit. That should not prevent the unit obliging him to service it though: it is not that hard for the unit to check that all the cells are replaced, so people do not just use the "reset" program, and the "reset" program should require him to enter valid serial numbers for the O ring kit etc.
Alex
I fail to see how someones occupation makes any difference, as does there age. It comes down to our you anal enough to maintain the up-keep on this particular form of diving????
Anal....yes anal becuase if your not these things will bite you in the arse.
No need to enter pin numbers to show you have had the nownce to change orings at the recomended schedule. What is needed is a hard copy of a recomended service shedule and to have been shown how to do it and why you do iy. And not the he recons this and him that, some standard hard format is all that is required.
Its called common sence to follow that format, and some of the most clever people i know are the most unsensible lot going. Just because some one is a Doctor does that make them automaticaly sensible??? i dont think so.
If people realy need there arses wiping this much they are deffo not suited to CCR diving, as i said earlyer when you decide to go the CCR route you are well out side the come and have a go anyone can do it type of diving.
There is a huge lack of good quality instruction on advanced diving courses IMHO (tech courses/ CCR should go well beyond just in water skills as surely at this point the inwater skills should already be in place) and this is an area that can be improved on greatly. But people have to take responsabilty for there own safety, common sense plays a big part, and the sad fact is there are plenty of people with no common sense.
Yours young upstart
Gareth