PADI and the RDP

[Red Sea Shadow]

Not read this yet, as have been banged up in an Egyptian Jail for 24 hours.....

Sorry to hear that you had troubles.

Was that because of the work permit purge a couple of weeks ago?

[SeaStar]

So are they updating the exam to reflect this?

yes, new questions will be avaiable to download from the members site, and the online version will be changed soon too.
The Nitrox spec is also being changed to allow computers only.

you can ask again on monday if the drinking makes you forget the answer - seriously hope it's all sorted out now.

[john-flood]

Not good at all, have just started 'drinking to forget'........

oh dear sorry to hear of bad news have a few for me mate, chin up

cheers john

[Red Sea Shadow]

The Nitrox spec is also being changed to allow computers only.

Does it mean that you don't have to use Nitrox tables anymore? So do you teach the EAD method instead?

[SeaStar]

Does it mean that you don't have to use Nitrox tables anymore? So do you teach the EAD method instead?

not really if I'm reading the training bulletin correctly

from the training bulletin:
"PADI Enriched Air Diver Course Now Dive Computer-Based
As announced in the Second Quarter 2009 The Undersea Journal, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course is now based on using a dive computer, with use of the tables optional. Instead of planning dives using the RDP, the DSAT Equivalent Air Depth and Oxygen Exposure Tables and Enriched Air RDPs, divers taking the revised specialty course learn how to properly set an enriched air capable dive computer and use it to plan their dives.
The new Enriched Air Diver Manual, video and exam have been simplified to fully support this dive computer option.

If you are a PADI Enriched Air Diver Specialty Instructor, you may begin teaching this option as soon as you acquire the revised diver materials, which are scheduled for release in July (in English). During the required predive planning (or simulation) and practical application, have divers use their dive computers to plan enriched air dives based on the depths, times, gas supply and surface intervals you provide and the analyzed content of the two scuba cylinders filled with enriched air.
You may continue to use existing materials except for the instructor guide, to teach the new option. For instructors who wish to teach table use, the tables will be available as a set (metric or imperial) that includes the Equivalent Air Depth Table, Oxygen Exposure Table, EANx32 RDP, EANx36 RDP and an illustrated study guide that shows the student diver how to use them."

[Red Sea Shadow]

from the training bulletin:
"PADI Enriched Air Diver Course Now Dive Computer-Based
As announced in the Second Quarter 2009 The Undersea Journal, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course is now based on using a dive computer, with use of the tables optional. Instead of planning dives using the RDP, the DSAT Equivalent Air Depth and Oxygen Exposure Tables and Enriched Air RDPs, divers taking the revised specialty course learn how to properly set an enriched air capable dive computer and use it to plan their dives.
The new Enriched Air Diver Manual, video and exam have been simplified to fully support this dive computer option.

If you are a PADI Enriched Air Diver Specialty Instructor, you may begin teaching this option as soon as you acquire the revised diver materials, which are scheduled for release in July (in English). During the required predive planning (or simulation) and practical application, have divers use their dive computers to plan enriched air dives based on the depths, times, gas supply and surface intervals you provide and the analyzed content of the two scuba cylinders filled with enriched air.
You may continue to use existing materials except for the instructor guide, to teach the new option. For instructors who wish to teach table use, the tables will be available as a set (metric or imperial) that includes the Equivalent Air Depth Table, Oxygen Exposure Table, EANx32 RDP, EANx36 RDP and an illustrated study guide that shows the student diver how to use them."

Thanks for the info. I'm VDST CMAS instructor not PADI so I don't receive these bulletins. IMHO that's not enough, especially for the Nitrox course.

[Stevie H]

Sorry to hear that you had troubles.

Was that because of the work permit purge a couple of weeks ago?

Thanks for your concern, but no, it wasn't.

I had a delivery boy on a scooter pull straight out in front of me, I had no chance to avoid him and took him out completely. Unfortunately for me he was unconscious for 20 hours and unable to back up my version of events, so I was arrested and thrown in a cell for the night and then taken to "El Tur" to sit in front of a judge...... and if he had not have come round by the time I saw the judge i would have gone to prison until he was conscious.

Luckily for me he came around 20 mins before I went to the judge and he made a statement to say it was not my fault

But you know how this country works... as a 'rich foreigner' I am expected to pay his medical bills and repair his scooter

Regards

Stevie H

[Red Sea Shadow]

But you know how this country works... as a 'rich foreigner' I am expected to pay his medical bills and repair his scooter

Yeah I know. Everything is subjected to this kind of "settlements".

Glad he's up and it didn't get worse.

[MarkP]

Not read this yet, as have been banged up in an Egyptian Jail for 24 hours.....

So are they updating the exam to reflect this?

PADI's position on Egyptian jails is not clear...

[Stevie H]

PADI's position on Egyptian jails is not clear...

PMSL - thanks, I needed that

Greens incoming.