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> "...... This complete, I met up with Paul at the entrance. > Our bottom time had been 77 minutes, and we > still had 9 hours 22 minutes before we could surface." > > Stone, W. C., The Wakulla Springs Project, pg. 128-129, The U.S. Deep Cav= > ing > Team, Gaithersburg, MD, 1989 > Frank, On my last dive in Wakulla, Bill Mee, Jess Armantrout and I had a 150 minute bottom time. However, we only did 8.5 hours of deco. This is one hour less than Sheck's deco for twice the bottom time in the same cave. Do you think that maybe Sheck did too much deco? Or did we do too little? The funny thing is that there were two Navy doctors there to doppler us and I came out with zero bubbles when I was checked 15 minutes after leaving the water. 20 minutes later after loading my rebreather with doubles still attached into my van (I did have some help), much to the relief of the Navy doctors who hadn't beleived that I had been diving that day due to my earlier zero bubble doppler, I managed grade two bubbles. As you know, grade two is not even worth thinking about. Even the Navy doctors were at a loss as to how such a short deco is possible with this kind of bottom time. My answer is: ask George. Seriously, when you have 5 divers do this type of profile on the same day with great doppler tests you see a pattern. Now what pattern do you see? Five superhumans or a team that has figured out deco for these types of dives? I modestly say the latter. -John -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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