dive buddies with different training and configurations

[Chris H]

I think it sucks! You guys need to get your crap together and get with the program. I'm not inot pushing anyone into this. Do it whe you are ready. I recommend the DIR-F class before deco procedures, but I did it the other way around and I'm still alive.

That is part of the problem with addtional advanced training for me. If I don't have a buddy that is trained to the same level, that I am comfortable diving with, what is the point. I am not out to collect cards, and I want to get to the next level at some point, but it is difficult to get your stuff squared away if you aren't doing the dives. I know that many of the skills needed for this can and should be practiced in a shallow environment, but it is still nice to use the training and do the dives.

I am really leaning toward the Heliox or whatever the heck the NAUI name for it is. This way I can have the benefits of HE in my gas, and still basically dive a Nitrox profile. The next issue though is Deco. I would just as soon run the tables and carry a bottle of 50% with me than have my current dive computer bend me and fix me with a 15 minute stop at 10ft. I know that many of you dive Suunto Vyper/Vytecs, and I don't know if that gives deep stops or not, but there is a gauge mode.

Gert, does the Heliox class have any deco in it? I don't remember if it does or not.