240 feet on air? I see you like Russian Roulette! Haha.
240 feet on air? I see you like Russian Roulette! Haha.
This is a huge debate that's been going on for a longe time. How deep on air is really up to you and your training.
There's the ridiculous 100m club in egypt that do it on air with a bounce dive. And then GUE say after 40m you should be on trimix.
I think everyone is different, i've dove to 80m on air before, it was a difficult dive and a working dive too but sometimes it needs to be done. I would never recommend anyone else do that but sometimes dive theory about partial pressure is exactly that.. theory.
I would say for most, in my honest opinion, 55m is the max, any more then that and you get penalized in a huge way for decompression.
I think it's highly individual and dependant on what's happening on the dive. Warm v. cold water, good visibility v. bad visibility, working hard v. not working, problems v. no problems . . .depth is only one factor.
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doubles for anything deeper than 30M huh?? I heard of the "rule" don't go deeper than the cf size of your tank, and even that seems conservative.
I did my deepest dive to date in the Blue Hole ( Dahab) in 1998 I reached 56 meters but to be honest I did not enjoy it at all I was to concerned with the increased risk factor of deep diving to have a good time, I vary really go deeper than 25 meters these days unless there is really something I want to photograph.
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Let's face it, trimix only last 8 9 / year has been most popular and availability is still a problem. Diving words, got gas diving is still very much in my childhood and indeed increasing popularity.At at least I'm on a mix in and feel comfortable and aware of their actions.
Last edited by simesdwin; 01-05-2011 at 06:12 AM.
i have done 56 meters on air in Dahab Egypt, i was young and stupid at the time would i do it again no!
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