Your not the first DIR diver to do the Stroke Try Dive
Bob Cooper and Andy Carrol did the Advanced strokery day at Stony Cove with AndyP and I
Advanced strokery really needs a CCR in order to do away with any of that silly gas planing crap
The two main dive planning tools are:
1: Stay down till your cold
2: Stay down till the deco commitment becomes ridiculous.
For the second advanced dive planning system you realy need a VR3 or other TTS type dive computer.
I am sorry to say Andy Carrol only got a provisional pass as his trim was really far to flat to be considered a true stroke and Bob was thrown off the course for backward finning whilst using a CCR.
Advanced Strokery is a modern evolving system. Nothing stands still, at present the kit configuration team are working on mounting and deployment of the MP3 player. We have narrowed it down to 26 possible configurations which we believe should keep most divers happy. As usual we don't mind if our divers don't bother with any of our ideas just so long as the instructor gets paid.
We believe this attitude to students is bolstering the diving industry as the Muppet's with more money than sense then go of and do another course that teaches them exactly the same thing all over again but because the course had a different title they believe they have learned something new.
Carfulley planned and manipulated with clever propaganda a student can re do all his training paying out £1000 of pounds in the process and dispite being taught nothing new they still beleive they have learned something.
Which always gives us a good giggle
ATB
Mark