TDI Advanced Nitrox and Deco Procedures

[Chris H]

Thought I would post a quick first impression follow-up on the courses Todd and I are doing with Gert (Deep Blue) even though we touched on them breifly before in the other post.

In the shortest possible description, the course is excellent! I highly recommend it.

We did the first two dives on Saturday in less than ideal visibility in Lake Michigan. I changed some things with my equipment and tried some different techniques for these dives that I had never tried before. This left me feeling most uncomfortable at first, but I eventually got used to the changes and I've already made some more to try on the next dive.
As Gert mentioned in one of his other posts, he teaches "A Kinder, gentler DIR" However that may change if they keep hosting the DIR-F course I really like it. I told Todd on the way home from the class that it is one thing to tell me to change the way I do something, but if you can show me why it is better, and it actually makes a lot of sense, I'm going to be pretty receptive. I'm looking forward to practicing the skills we worked on and just plain becoming a safer, better, diver. I hope Gert keeps the video tape to himself because most of it was pretty ugly, but we'll all be fine before this thing is over.

Now, do I get another E-130 to double my current one and use my AL 80 as a stage, or do I just stick with the 40? I guess time will tell. One minute to drop the stage and one minute to put it back. I need to work on that one...