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| Originally Posted by scuba steve irl george is largly held as the "father of tech" he has contributed to most aspects of technical diving and was the leader of the onsloth of DIR . |
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| Originally Posted by scuba steve irl google him .
i used him as a basis for my non modular lecture for my instructor exams , he pioneered an expression called the oxygen window . deco theory . |
No offence but that's absolute bollocks.
I got into tech diving in the early 90's and I don't remember seeing any mention of GI3 until about 95/96. Tech diving was well established long before that. Billy Deans wrote the first technical training courses and did far more than anyone else at building tech diving up; IANTD, TDI & ANDI had been going for years; NSS-CDS & NACD had been running cave diving courses commercially for a long time.
He didn't pioneer the expression "oxygen window" either. I don't know who did but it certainly wasn't him. In fact, he didn't pioneer a hell of a lot. Everything he knew about cave diving came from Parker Turner, kit developments came from Bill Gavin & Bill Main and general diving from Billy Deans. JJ did far more behind the scenes to establish what is DIR but had the good sense to act normal.
Sorry if I sound a bit narcy but a. I'm hungover and b. there are too many people that think technical diving is a recent invention.
I heartily recommend everyone with an interest in tech diving to read "Mixed Gas Diving" by Mount, Gilliam et al and "Deep Diving" by Brett Gilliam. Both are extremely good at establishing the time line on the development of what is tech diving.