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I sure hope you're correct. I have dedicated myself to this sport, and hope to participate until I'm so over the hill, that looking behind me looks like a bump! There are a fue amongst us who are looking back at the bumps, is there a possibility of some comment. Robert Chambers Barbados West Indies. On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.Ha*.Or*> wrote: > >> As time passes (and the number of SCUBA divers increase) the number of >> ageing divers will increase. >> When should a diver stop diving due to advanced age? Should >> (s)he consider age at all? To what extent hould (old) divers have regular >> checkups? >> (We have our own ideas concerning the above questions but are very >> interested in hearing other peoples opinion) > >Jack Randall (my Ph.D. advisor and fish-nerd mentor) has been diving since >1946, and now that he is in his mid-70's, he can still out-pace me. I >spent 64 hours underwater in 15 days on the PNG trip because I had a >breather. Jack was the only one who spent more time underwater than me, >and he was using normal air tanks (granted he didn't go very deep, and was >using up the last of his allowable bottom time at 20 feet - according to >his EDGE - by the end of the day). In 1993 in the Solomons, my Grad. >student buddy and I (the two young bucks on the trip) decided we would >match Jack dive for dive, hour for hour of underwtaer time. That lasted >exactly two days (7 and 8 dives, respectively). I got sick, and my buddy >was physically exahusted, and we both had to take a day off to recover. >Afterwards, the most we could manage was 5 or 6 dives a day, while Jack >kept up his pace for the entire trip. > >Anyway, from my perspective, age per se doen't seem to have much to do >with it. > >Aloha, >Rich >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. > >
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