【大神系列】Andrew Couch是如何炼成的(第二弹)

Andrew

23年潜水历史

CCR、沉船专长

A PADI/IANTD/TDI/GUE/RAID instructor based in Hongkong

据说高逼格潜水员都关注分享MWDF

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这位大神在PADI享有很高的地位。还是香港Madarin divers俱乐部的Managing parnter(管理合伙人)。

小编每次实诚的拿大神的微信头像当介绍图片,有人说不够帅!所以小编再挑个大神的主页介绍图出来,帅了吧?真人挺帅的呢。

 

废话不多说,开始大神实实在在的访谈。

 

1.潜水经验介绍

答:我10岁在泰国第一次接触潜水到今年23年了,我依然热爱水下的生活。

2003年我成了PADI OWSI并且在2007年成为了PADI的课程总监。03年我搬去了香港并且开始在Mandarin Divers工作,现在我已经是Mandarin Divers的管理合伙人了。过去的14年,我成了一个技潜教练,教开放循环呼吸系统和密闭式循环呼吸系统,包括PADI, IANTD, TDI, RAID的三混气。我最近还获得了GUE的教练资格。

当我开始在Mandarin Divers工作的时候我就在菲律宾获得了PADI的技术深潜资格。同一年我开始和IANTD学CCR。后来我完成了各种各样的三混气、CCR和开放式呼吸系统课程。先后成了5个CCR品牌的教练/IT。

我有幸和很多世界顶尖的高手学习潜水,还有的是这项运动或者某些设备的生产者、发明者,他们让我领略了技潜的魅力,尤其是沉船和洞穴。

 

2.你认为最好的技潜技术进阶方式和最重要的技潜技巧

 

 

答:我相信任何潜水员都不应该认为他们已经懂所有的事了。我坚定的认为无论你潜了多久,有怎样的证书都要不断不断学习。获得更多证书是很有吸引力,但是没什么能和实际经验和将技巧、知识运用到实际上比。

我认为警觉性对潜水员来说是最重要的。无论是对你的团队/buddy、环境还是装备,保持警觉性能保证你的潜水安全和每次潜水的成功。

 

3.潜水最大成就和最快乐的瞬间

 

答:对我来说这两者是同一个时刻。我不认为我的潜水是个人的,而是团队的。作为团队的一员探索了菲律宾一艘100m深的沉船是我最大的成就。没有比亲眼见证沉船历史更让我激动的了。幸运的是,我还去了这些沉船好几次,并且拥有一个对彼此的技术和价值观都感到认同的团队。我们还继续在进行洞穴的探索,从亚洲到世界,我们不断享受这些新的地点、经历所带给我们的快乐。

 

 

4.你碰到过的困难或挫折

答:带着CCR在60m顶流,并且因为轻微松掉的嘴导致呼吸管里少量进水有点令人难受。我清晰记得因为不能够通过足够的吸气来从mushroom valve(蘑菇阀门?)清除积水导致开始呛水。这是我第一次在水下真正感到恐惧。这时候我才明白为什么技术潜水需要那么多枯燥的训练。不用说,当我恢复冷静并且当我的感官恢复正常,我凭借着长久以来的训练记忆和准确的判断得以安全升水。

 

5.如何选择潜伴

答:我选择buddy非常的谨慎。他们必须和我有着相似的思维。这里面包括经历了差不多的训练,有差不多的技能,有差不多的装备。并不是每个人都是一样的,这里面有妥协。但是在那些我们一起去大深度探险的团队里,我们有着很高的相似性并且我们在准备潜水上极度的严谨和苛刻。不得不说,谦虚也是我选择队友一个很大的因素。我们不总是会成为大推进潜水员(big push diver)。我也认识很多过度自信的潜水员和他们一起潜水我并不感到安全。

 

6.什么是合格的沉船潜水

 

答:对我来说,合格的沉船潜水员是热爱挑战但保持现实注意和诚实的人。很多人在沉船里受伤、出事都是因为做了超出自己极限的事。超出自己技能的极限,超出自己装备的极限,或者超出团队的极限。我很喜欢探索别人没做过的事,但是不能以我个人或者团队的安全作为赌注。我们从来不打破沉船或者洞穴潜水的黄金法则。从来不会不打线进封闭空间或者超过气体、时间的极限仅仅为了看看下一个转角有什么。

 

这里附上大神所在的香港俱乐部Mandarin Divers的官网:http://mandarin-divers.com/index.html

你也可以通过facebook搜索Andrew Couch找到他。

 

附上原版英文访谈稿:

1. Could you please introduce your diving experience? and what encouraged you to do tech dive?

I started diving in Thailand when I was 10 years old and 23 years later am still enjoying the underwater life.

I became a PADI OWSI in 2003 and rose to become a PADI Course Director in 2007. I moved to Hong Kong in 2003 and began working for Mandarin Divers of which I am now a managing partner. In the past 14 years I have become a Technical Instructor Trainer on open circuit and closed circuit rebreathers up to full Trimix for PADI, IANTD, TDI, RAID and have recently become a GUE Instructor. When I began working for Mandarin Divers, I took my PADI Tec Deep Diver Course in 2003 in the Philippines and in the same year started on the road with CCR diving with IANTD. Since then I have gone on to complete numerous Trimix CCR and OC dives around the world and have qualified as an Instructor/IT on 5 different CCR units.

I have been fortunate to dive with a learn from some of the best divers and Instructors the sport has produced and they have given me a particular enjoyment of technical diving especially wrecks and caves.

2. What do you think is the best way to improve diving technique? What’s the diving technique that you think is the most important?

I believe that divers can never assume that they know everything. I am a firm believer in continuously striving to learn more no matter how long you have been diving or how many qualifications you have. Gaining further qualifications is fruitful but nothing compares to actual experience and applying the knowledge and skills gained in training. I think that awareness is the key attribute for a diver to possess, be they recreational or technical divers. Having an awareness of your team/buddy, environment and equipment will always have a positive impact on your diving and making for a safe and successful diving experience.

3. What’s the biggest achievement in your diving experience? What’s your happiest experience? 

I would say my biggest achievement and happiest experiences are wrapped up as one. I don’t consider my diving as individualist but a team effort. Working as part of a team to explore wrecks in the Philippines beyond 100m has for me been a great team achievements. I love nothing more than exploring the history of a wreck and then experiencing and seeing that history with my own eyes, these rate as my happiest moments in diving. Fortunately I have been able to experience these sites on numerous occasions and have a great team of divers that I work with and we are all comfortable in our understanding of the others skills and attributes.  We have moved into exploring Caves both in Asia and other places in the world which continuing to amaze me in what they produce.

4. Have you ever encounter any difficulty or major setback?

Being 60m underwater on a CCR swimming hard against a current and feeling a small amount of water in the breathing hoses from slightly ‘loose’ lips. I remember not being able to draw enough breath to clear the water through the mushroom valve and beginning to choke. It was the first time I was truly scared underwater and the time I really realised why all the rigorous training is required for Technical Diving. Needless to say once I calmed myself and my senses returned I was able to trust my training and make the right decisions and ascend safely.

5. How do you choose buddy? How is your buddy? 

I choose my buddies/team mates very carefully. They must be like minded, by this I mean they must have like minded goals for a dive, like minded training and skill set, like minded ideas on equipment set up. Not everybody is the same and there is compromise but in the above aspects with the divers I have had several successful deep exploration dives with there are not many differences between us and we are very rigourous in our preparations. I would also say being humble is something I look for in a team mate. We are not always going to be the big push diver and I have known several over confident divers who I have not felt safe going into the water with.

6. What is a qualified wreck diver? what makes you go wreck again and again?

To me a ‘qualified’ wreck diver is someone who likes a challenge but can remain realistic and honest in their diving. Too many people have got hurt or worse insude a wreck and these incidences have been in part from pursuing a dive beyond their limits, limits of their skill set, equipment or the team limits. I like to explore and experience things people haven’t but not at the risk of myself and others in my team. We never break the golden rules of wreck or cave diving – not having a line back to the exit or going beyond the limits of gas or time for the same of seeing what is around the next corner.

 

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