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From: "Richard Blackburn" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 21:04
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Just got back -- Details ;)


> > > The NSS-CDS teaches on singles, to
> > > further limit our penetration ;)  Now that I am certified, I can
change
> > to
> > > 1/6th of doubles.
> > Sounds a little strange, if you'll forgive my saying so.  Teaching you
> > firsthand how to nail your buoyancy with doubles seems preferable to
> > encouraging you to learn it on your own in a cave.  But I'm no cave
> > diver....
>
> You are supposed to move to apprentice and learn the doubles outside of
the
> cave, before using them in the cave.
Then I don't understand your second sentence above in the context of your
last one.  It IS intro > apprentice > full, right?