YD Nitrox Gig Mk II

[Driftwood]

<font color='#0000FF'>Okay, there have been loads of people recently going on about EANx - how many are wanting to do a course?

If you are interested in doing a course in the next couple of months, put your mark below. I'll contact Mr Hayhurst of Dalesdivers and see if he is willing and able to do another en mass YD Nitrox stylee....

Not sure of costs ( last time I think it was circa £80 for Basic and £125 for TDI Advanced 'trox)

Course would take place in the Lakes probably (Wastwater etc)

So let me know who is interested and I'll look into it.

[ancl]

I'd be interested, if you can let me know dates and prices as and when you get them please.

Andy

[Digger]

<font color='#000080'>I'm interested in doing the TDI Advanced, but I've got my BSAC Advanced now, so I'd need to check on the equivalence etc. before going on but otherwise I'm up for it.

Keep me posted on the details.

Digs.

[tiewrapdiver]

I've just signed up for my BSAC combined. But if its after april i'm interested in doing the TDI advanced depending on equivalencies etc like Digger says.

[Reeve]

<font color='#000F22'>If your able to sort out some ERD / Deco procedures course following this I'd be interested.

[Mr T.]

I asked Andy (DALESDIVER) Hayhurst for the new prices on the combined TDI Basic and Advanced Nitrox Course recently for another mate, the very course both Fiona and I undertook with him nigh-on two years ago now (19th May, 2002), and he said it was £135.00 per diver.

The Basic Course can, at the instructor's discretion, include diving; although invariably not; the Advanced course will entail 4 dives, at varying depths, dependent on the NO2 mix on the dive - 32%, 34%, 36% and 40%.

Actually, these courses are a good excuse for Yd'ers to meet for possibly the first time - indeed, though not all for the 1st time of meeting, Mrssrs Gavin and Fi Yates, Professory Stevie W, Jay (Heads Up) Bolt, Andy Tanx-a-Deux, The Lesser-spotted Davey Willo, Drifty, Ben (wee Ben - although there's only an inch in it between him and Drifty - they're both tall), Tim Ingmire (TimIng) and ruck of others on here enjoyed meals, drinks (though not too many!) and a camaraderie which we maintain to this day, which results in us going diving together regularly all over the shop. Result. The crack, and safe diving, is everything people!

The course is an eye-opener and we (Fiona and I) found it very instructive; as did our YD colleagues, above, who did the initial YD Mass Nitrox Gig (8 months later, 18 divers covered by 5 instructors cert'd over a weekend). The course includes dives and classroom sessions - the bigger the group in the class, the more you feel you're getting out of it, as someone will ask the questions that are on the tip of yer tongue and then the 'did you feel...?' questions begin; which is both a bonding thing and a reminder of those aspects of the course which stick with you. There is ample scope to ask, whilst on the course, just how it differs from other agency/school Nitrox courses - Andy will give you an honest appraisal to suit your diving.

I can't recommend the combined course enough; just got my TDI Deco Procedures course with Andy to do before any more courses are lined-up!

And before anyone asks, Andy is a PADI Staff Instructor, a TDI/SDI Regional Instructor Trainer and an BSAC National Instructor, so the advice I got from him on precisely which Nitrox course to take was genuinely impartial and based on my diving ability/experience at the time verses my aspirations. He will do the same for you.

Drifty, good luck mate and maybe see you up there for the weekend - this time I'll be making you tea!

PS: You are NOT drinking with me the night before the dives - that's what f*cked you the last time!

[Crisspy Fiver]

Im intending to do TDI advanced nitrox and deco procedures in the near futur so if this was arranged as well I would be well up for it as long as I had a bit of notice to get the funds together.

Please let us know if anything goes ahead.

Jamie

[Lou]

I assume that there is no problem in doing Adv Nitrox with e single rec rig is there?

[Gavin Yates]

<font color='#000F22'>Not at all Lou.

[Dr Stevil]

Confirmed, my twinset pillar valve got opened during transit and when we got to Wast they were completely empty! I did one dive on someone elses twins and the last dive on a spare single 12l Bren had with him.

It's worth repeating that nitrox isn't necessarily all about twin-sets and deco stops.