[Andreas Triantopoulos]

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on Feb 13, 2007 at 6:17 am


Sorry Scubabob, you are wrong!!. I'm a PADI Instructor, but that doesn't make me Infallible, so I contacted PADI's Training and Quality Management dept to confirm - their answer is as i said origionaly and is detailed below:

Hi Dave

I can confirm that the information provided by the other individual on this link is incorrect; the PADI Recreational Dive Planner has been calculated using a maximum ascent rate of 18 metres per minute, and therefore this remains the maximum recommended ascent rate from a dive. Students are encouraged to ascend at a rate slower than this, but there is not a specific recommended rate, such as 9 metres per minute.

I trust this information is of help to you; please feel free to contact me if I can be of further assistance.

With kind regards

Richard Somerset
Training and Quality Management Advisor
PADI International Ltd
The Way the World Learns to Dive®
Unit 7 St Philips Central
Albert Road
St Philips, Bristol
BS2 0PD
United Kingdom
Telephone: + (44) 117 300 7343
Fax: + (44) 117 300 7270 </SPAN>