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This view must be balanced against the teachings of the technical diver training agencies who encourage divers to dive as a team and often cite three as the optimum team size.
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Obviously, this definition represents the ideal, and upon honest examination, it’s clear that it has little to do with the reality as practiced by most divers. The truth is that on most dives, the buddy system fails.
At the same time, we had to observe the rules set forth by the Spéléo Secours Français—the French Cave Diving Association. We set up a trimix dive, with nitrox decompression and oxygen.
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Training agencies differ in the degree of self sufficiency training at recreational levels.
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Few instructors, however, remember to mention at this point that dive computers or bottom timers can do all this, easier faster and safer.
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However, almost clandestinely, some CCR divers and Instructors decided to found what is now called DIRrebreather and to set up logical and simple rules, so we could apply the DIR principles to CCR diving.
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X-RAY MAG: What is Scuba Rangers? What is Kids Scuba? Where are you located?
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Around 70% of certified divers worldwide have been certified by the single largest training agency.
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Unfortunately, with some students, due to the stress of breathing underwater for the first time, good training and advice tends to go in one ear and out the other.
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Now, I seek only the top (and often hardest) instructor trainers when I require additional training for myself, and I love the challenge.
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