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Twinsets , Trimix and the Evolution
Being a Girl Tekkie
Sophia Butler-Cowdry
Back in 2001 at the tender age of nineteen, I had qualified
as a PADI Divemaster with eighty or so dives on a Coral Cay
Conservation project in Honduras, and decided to travel
to Indonesia with a friend before starting university. As he
was doing his Open Water on the idyllic island of Gili Air,
I thought I'd like to try something new too – a decision that
would change my life. Blue Marlin Dive suggested I indulge
in a nitrox course. Nitrox? I'd only ever heard it mentioned
briefly during my DM course, but not discussed it as a real
recreational dive option.
So there I was, in tropical paradise, with my eccentric French
instructor, Didier, going through all the theory – the benefits,
the dangers and what it meant in practical terms to dive
nitrox. I found it so interesting I couldn't believe no one had
suggested it to me before...
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