Hi guys & gals
Last week I met some of my diving mates down our local pub for a few beers and our mandatory curry during the evening we started to talk about deep air diving and 2 of my mates said they never feel narked when diving to 50m on air. So I offered to have a dive on saturday to prove them wrong my arguement was any body going 30m or deeper will get some sort of on set of narcosis. On saturday morning I had the car packed and was on road for 6am as I had a good 2hrs 30min drive to get to the quarry once there I went through the dive plan with them what was desending down the 50m shot line to a max of 30m then swim off the line to the wall for a wall dive max time down was 15min so we only would have a 3 min saftey stop. They were not allowed any deeper than 30m for the hole dive and I would signal to them to note there air plus there buddies air on a slate approx half way through the dive on the dive I would be trying to make them go deeper than 30m. So off we went we got down to 6m and done a bubble check then went down to 30m at 30m we left the shot and started our dive half way through the dive I gave them the signal to log there air plus there patners then turned the dive around to go back to the shot half way back I pointed and started to descend both of them followed me down to 38m before one of them remebered the dive plan and signaled to go up it was that easy to break our dive plan and get them deeper. Back at the surface after we had done our saftey stop we looked at the slates one of my mates had recorded hes air but not hes buddies the other had recorded both but both had followed me deeper than the dive plan the other thing that they did not do was ask the other what air they had left but both were looking at there gauges most of the dive. Both of them agree now even though they did not feel narked there was a degree of narcocis.