On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:01:48 +0100, Andy M Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

P-Fish,

>>Did you take a "computer diving" course, Strike, before diving with
>>whatever computer you used?   :-)))

ElPez said that.


>When I crossed trained from PADI AOW to BS-AC Sports, I had to complete
>numerous thoery modules & practical dives to get to a basic diver level;
>one of these modules was on computers.

A complete "course" on a "specialty" topic, is not quite the same as
a "module" on said topic in a Basic Diver course.

My PADI OW-I course "covered" ('mentioned, 'paid lip service
to', 'mentioned in modules') DOZENS of topics that are treated in
Specialty Certification courses, but that's a far cry from having
taken dozens of those Specialty Courses to get their Specialty
patches.  :-)


>Do no other training agencies cover the computer at all ?
>Or can I claim BS-AC is better again :-)

Probably ALL training agencies "cover" the computer (some with
a very heavy blanket :-) since the dive computer first came into
practical recreational existence around the mid-1980s when ORCA's
brick gave birth to the first generation of SkinnyDippers.

P-Fish, your BS-AC is just another member in the Alphabet Soup
of Scuba Diving -- BS-AC =  Brit Soup d'Alphabet Club?  :-))

ElPezNeuvo.