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| Originally Posted by ardhill Another thought for you as well...
you said you wanted to do your BSAC combined Nitrox, you also said you wanted to do TDI Adv. Nitrox and Deco Proc. Well, once you have your BSAC advanced Nitrox, you will have the prerequisite for doing the BSAC Extended Range course, which gives you near enough the same 'limits' as the TDI combination. |
Just an 'off the top of my head' comment to follow this up regarding my nitrox training.
I first did PADI Nitrox diver to give me ability to use nitrox. A nice course and very good for the target audience i.e. dives not doing deco who wanted to use nitrox as a back gas.
I then wanted to do deco and increase the nitrox mix from the 40% max that PADI give you to 50%, so I did the BSAC Combined Nitrox course. I found that this was a great course that went beyond just the nitrox element - due to the instructor. The only down side was the "If you hog-loop you WILL die" mentality (again down to the instructor, not specifically BSAC).
To round things off I ended up doing the TDI Adv Nx and Deco course with Martin Robson. This qualified me to 45m doing deco using nitrox mixes upto 100% O2.
Thus I think that I learned that -
1. If you want just the qualification to get the gas to do the diving just go straight to TDI Adv Nx & Deco [1].
2. If you want to learn about nitrox to get experience doing unaccellerated deco diving first do the BSAC combined course and then do the TDI course later on [2] [3].
3. Doing the BSAC Combined course covers most of the stuff you will do in the TDI Adv Nx, which means that you can go into the course knowing quite a bit. Which in turn allows you to identify and work on any areas that you are weak(er) on rather than having to learn everything in one go.
[1] I'm sure IANTD and others are just as good but as I've not done the course I cannot comment.
[2] No idea what the BAC ERD course gives you - so again I can't comment.
[3] The exclusion of the PAD course in no way implies that there is anything wrong with the course per se. However it is a no deco course and has an upper limit of 40% (or it did when I did it) and as such I do not think that it would fit in this particular situation.
There you go - random beer inspired mumblings. Please feel free to ignore
