The Bath Dive Centre are in the process of generating a series of good practice guides on how to best care for your equipment and to extend its life and how to ensure you dive safely and within your limits. Further guides will be produced in the coming months and added to this library.
The Flying
After Diving Workshop held in May 2002, in Durham, North Carolina, USA,
produced some new flying after diving recommendations. These new
recommendations should be implemented in all PADI courses and programs and
will be incorporated into training materials as they come up for reprint.
They apply both to Recreational Dive Planner and dive computer guided dives
and are important for anyone considering dive travel.
Fresh water sites can often be close to freezing, even outside the obvious
winter period. This often poses the threat of a free flow. Incidents
resulting from free flows cannot be completely avoided but they can be
reduced if a few basic guidelines and procedures are followed.
A common
form of redundant air source in the UK is the ‘pony cylinder’. These
normally comprise a small (approx 3 litre) cylinder and a regulator with a
single second stage and pressure gauge. A pony cylinder of this type
is intended to provide sufficient air in an emergency for a diver to abort
the dive and return safely to the surface.
This simple guide provides some basic, yet potentially life saving,
procedures for dealing with diving accidents and casualties.
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