Quote: (Originally Posted by
decoweenie)
Since you will not be taking any training course diving your home-built unit, it might be wise to dive with as much information as possible as many things COULD go wrong until you work out all of the bugs. We all think we could handle anything thrown at us, but some people react differently in the real world.
Could not agree with you more Phi. What you THINK you will do and what you ACTUALLY do when you are 2 breaths and 30 seconds away from the Grim Reaper are often times very different. Until you have walked in those shoes you do not know.
And to Karl, I might also add that while you may know the technical workings of your unit and you may know the mechanics of diving it superbly, it would serve you well to take training from someone who can pass on experience that others before us probably learned the hard way.
I was able to dive my unit in about 20 minutes. The rest was just practise. I took training not because I needed someone to teach me how to dive. I took it because I reaped the benefit of the (often fatal) experiences of others and had an experienced person validate what I was doing.
Sermon over.....lol. Just give it some thought....