Tec 40 Dives 2 and 3

Left out of Manassas to Lake Rawlings before 6:30 to be in the water at Lake Rawling before 10 to start the next two dives in my DSAT Tec40 training.

Was a lot of fun. Rachel made it a challange, as she should. Lots of task loading, to make you think about the "what if" with all of the gear.

Diving is diving - look here, breath here, kick.  This adds the option of  more bottom time and more depth. I am not so much looking for the depth but the bottom time.  That is not to say with some more experience  depth won't figure into this. There are several wrecks in south Florida that will put this training to use.

Now on to the real Open Water - the Ocean.  I will keep you posted.

Venturing in to Tec Diving

Rachel teaching Tec 40. Oct 2013Well it was bound to happen.  I have signed up for the PADI Tech 40 class.  Spent  week reading chapter after chapter, knowledge review after knowledge review to prepare fo this weekend classroom work and configuration secession. Rachel is our instructor.  I have been Rachel's student many times over the years. Once she started into tech I kept with recreational.

During the shop's rebuilding phase they continue to increase recreational diving and rebreather diving. But the open circuit tec diving has been hit or miss.  Over the few months Rachel has decided to step in and take control of the open circuit tec schedule.  This is the second batch of tec classes she has put together in the last month.  From what I hear she has classes planned for November and December as well.

Tec 40 is the into course to tec diving. You can go to 130 ft (same a recreational diving) but you can go into deco up to 10 minutes  with up to 50 percent oxygen.   Beyond Tec 40 is Tec 45 and Tec 50 using PADI's System. It is a building bock system to extend depth and decompression time.

Spent the last part of the class today breaking down several of my regulators and reconfigure them to prepare for next weekends pool and quarry dives. 

Will have to see how this goes.  I made it to this quarry sessions a couple of years ago but could not complete the open water ocean dives due to schedule conflicts, I am going to miss this classes ocean dives too, similar conflicts.  But i will get this done. I want this C-Card.  Not sure how much further I will go in Open Circuit Tec but I want to complete this.