ah ok
just we dont have much choice here, we just get on with it!
i do find that colder water treats me better, the warm stuff just makes me oozy and sleepy. my breath hold is longer in cold water as well
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AIDA have recently introduced the notion of reduced course performance requirements for dives conducted in adverse conditions
Their current definition of adverse conditions states that "these include cold water with thermo clines below 10 degrees, extremely strong current or bad visibility"
The change in requirement is a reduction of 5m in the depth requirement for students on the Instructor Course.
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Edit (as i read the original post again): INMO, Dahab could not be defined as a location too cold or severe to warrant reducing the performance requirement as you mention (unless their thermoclines reach that temperature), as its hardly adverse compared to places like Canada, UAE, and if you doing it in the North Sea
then yes, definitely!
I dont think it's a notion on AIDA's part, I think it's a good decision. We have come up breathless many times as currents can hit you here out of the blue. In the summer here the surface of the water is 38 degs, once you hit 20 metres the thermocline drops like a stone to 25 and as you get deeper up to 19deg. When you're concentrating on a dive it's a hard knock. In winter it's even colder. Surface temp 19deg and 10deg or below on deep dives. Visibility generally here is 5-10metres and in some seasons 2metres. the best vis is the spring where you can get 30metres vis but that happens maybe 2 days in a month. We also have oil slicks to contend with but that's another story....
Is it that you dont agree with the reduction Sam?
