Hi we are Fridge & Craig, Subscribe to see more of our Scuba related content, new content is added regularly, ring the bell to keep updated, Gear Reviews, How to Videos, Amazing Guests in the SI Podcast, Collaborations with creators, giveaways & so much more! This is all about Scuba because that's what we love, usually with an environmental theme, without our Oceans we cant do what we love! Craig has been diving for over 100 years & Jim is an instructor, he still knows the issues you face when you first take up this incredible sport! yes, it is a sport! Craig is an amateur underwater photographer and knows a lot about it too! We wanted to bring you a RU-vid Channel that helps you on your Journey and hopefully help you make some of those choices about kit and configuration, highlight some of the issues our water world faces & how we can as divers help! if you need any help please get in touch via our social media platforms both Jim & Craig will be more than happy to help and advise
Hi there! I know it’s been a long time but I’ve listened to every book on your list that has an audible version and am wondering if you have anymore recommendations? I’m pretty much out of books with diving, even some free diving books like deep and one breath
The absolute best video for explaining dive tables. I don't dive a lot, but when I do, I always struggle with my tables. Thank you for taking the time to post this great video. Happy Diving to you.
thanks for this video.. can we have a comparison to Scubapro jet fins ? how Apeks RK3 "or RK3HD"-M size will perform in warm water recreational diving at a configuration of 3mm wetsuit & 2-5mm boots ? I recently use Scubapro Supernova yet feel floaty .. thanks for your advice
Actually, the RDP tables are no longer required in PADI classes. Buy a computer that is safer and/or longer and have more fun. Throwaway these ancient tables.
Id love to meet Jared. He's got amazing instincts and empathy towards to the cases he's handled. I wish I had known about him and AWP when theu had come to Nashville a few years ago. Id have gone to where they had all the pulled cars from the Cumberland
This was horrendous during COVID. When it came to wildlife, all centres should have been allowed to stay open. Animals don't just suddenly become okay because COVID was here. There were maybe loads left because of those god awful rules. 🤬. But you all do a wonderful job.
@@TheDiveLine I have a question. I have a dive of 31m for 30 minutes. I rounded the depth up to 35m and the maximum time it shows is 14 in the black box. Does this mean I am in pressure group K?
@@jimlucas5772 yes theoretically if you did that stupid dive you would be in pressure group K after only 14 minutes at a depth of 35m using the table without a surface interval of less than 5 minutes, provided your air lasted that long of course, but you would also need to do a decompression stop on your way back up aswell, However I would not advise you to attempt such a dive it would be a little bit crazy! 😂 If you are trying to work out some pressure groups stick to the maximum depth you have as a new diver, 18m maximum, do not push to the limits on time allowed especially if you are doing multiple dives in a single day! For example having an 18m dive for 20 minutes without a surface interval would leave you in pressure group F, or with a surface interval of 8minutes and above the pressure group would start to lower! Hope that helps and I understood your question correctly? 👍 ps buy atleast one decent computer and let that do the working out for you! 👍
@@jimlucas5772 no problem I’m glad it helps in a more simple way! Many get themselves mixed up with it and don’t get proper tuition it’s not that scary really and a computer is your best friend 👍
Very clear instruction video but sadly unclear in this respect. In the US, thus using Imperial RDP, I converted meters to feet (1 m = 3.28084 ft). Thus the parameters , when changed to ft, Dive 1 is 65.62 ft and Dive 2 is 52.49 ft (exactly same depth only measured differently). Using those numbers with the Imperial RDP chart, The outcomes don't match your answer page. From my RDP tables PG1=Q and, after SI, PG2 =E making RNT=17 and TBT= 47 resulting in PG3 at S. I don't have access to your RDP table and don't know how to evaluate the differences. Or maybe I'm making processing errors but processed 3 times working from PADI RDP instruction book. Please advise.
Hi Jim thanks for the comment, tbh my advise here would be to use the same process only as explained in the video regardless of imperial or metric, the figures will be slightly different as they are not direct conversions, 18m is 59ft not 60ft as shown in the imperial table! The process though is exactly the same for the US version of the table and following the process will gone you the correct pressure group! 👍
@@TheDiveLine Thanks but in a process of learning conservative safety in diving I don't see the value of this confusion. To be sure you and your group did not create the tables so again, thanks for the clear tutorial o ow to use them.
Hey Jason appreciate your comment and glad it helped you! Just look at it every once in a while so you keep it fresh in your mind, you never know when you might need it! 👍
Mario that’s an interesting take on this, it’s a very valuable skill to have should that computerized gadget malfunction for any reason after you have spent considerable time and money on getting to the dive site!
Hi there! Really nice video, really good, and has a lot of information. Let me do one question... I am a diving instructor working in warm waters for the last years using a mares super-channel. Do you think the rk3 HD would be much more negative than a mares super-channel? Thanks, Kaue
Hey Carl thanks for taking the time to write that awesome comment! The RDP tables really are easy if explained the right way and you have the right instructor teaching you of course! A really useful skill to have 👍😀
Hi . Great review , thanks for taking the time to do it. I’m new to diving (30 dives) and have just got a drysuit to enable diving in the U.K. are these to heavy for a flutter style kick rather than frog kick ?
Hey Mikhail appreciate you taking the time to comment and glad it helped you! Sorry about the music distracting you on this occasion hopefully it wasn’t too much of a problem 👍
Hey Novin many thanks for your comment, I’ve seen a lot of instructors struggle to teach this in an easy format and confuse students unfortunately, once you get the hang of it it’s really easy and a valuable skill if you don’t have or can’t afford your own computer. I’m glad it’s helped you 👍
