Did you follow customised dive tables? No.
Learn decompression software maybe? No.
Did you learn to perform in-water
decompression stops? No.
You don't even require extended safety
stops.
Learnt gas planning such as rule of thirds,
turn pressures, respiratory minute volume, surface air consumption? No.
What about physiological aspects of deep
diving; topics such as hypercapnia, nitrogen narcosis, blood perfusion or gas
diffusion? No.
Decompression theory and on-gassing,
off-gassing, m-values and the half-time concept. Learn how to identify decompression
sickness and treatment for suspected decompression sickness. No.
So you used standard scuba equipment,
learnt no new procedures, stayed within no-decompression limits, learnt no
advanced dive theory or the use of decompression tables and/or software - ouch.
I never saw much value in going down to the bottom, kneeling down and looking at colour changes at depth and performing a timed task that you already did on the surface.
The answer is a resounding no, better to take a course from Technical Diving International, a competing dive certification agency and their Intro to Tech course.
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