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This tops your deep air post. Travis : two strokes leave Monteal on the train to New York. One has a wet bottom timer, one has a dry bottom timer. Who gets there first? Travis Pawliuk wrote: > I think Brian's question was more to do with a discrepancy between the timers of two divers with the same plan. Most likely this would be due to the timers starting at different points, like when one person's starts when it gets splashed with water and the other doesn't begin until 5 feet or whatever. So even though they started the dive at the same time the timers are different. Then if you're supposed to leave the stop at a run time of 35 and yours reads 35 and his reads 33, you have three choices. 1.) Your timer says go up so you go up and leave him to deco by his timer. 2.)Your timer says go up so you go up as a team. 3.) You wait and go by his timer for the deco. The problem I've found in situations where the bottom timers aren't synchronized is getting to the first stop. If my timer is the first one to reach the end of our planned bottom time and I signal for us to go up and he thinks I just want extra travel time to get to the stop. I'm climbing to make my first stop and he's sightseeing. This happened to me once and after that I started including that in the predive plan/check. I'm of the opinion that you go by the timer that is higher and for deco the other person just use stop lengths instead of run times. It's the more consevative way, the fast person is doing the proper deco and the other is doing it as if he had the 2 more minutes of bottom time. Then for the last stop we do the extra couple of minutes on oxygen; it's not necessary but just a little added margin anyways. Travis> > > > Travis > > >From: <kirvine@sa*.ne*> > >Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:14:48 -0400 > >Reply-To: kirvine@sa*.ne* > >To: Brian Nadwidny <nadwidny@ho*.co*> > >CC: techdiver@aquanaut.com > >Subject: Re: Who controls deco? > > > >Jarrod and I stay together and face each other until we get support to > >sit with us at the shallow levels. If there is no support, we do the > >same deco. If there is support, I abbreviate the intermediate steps > >since when I am diving other than the second day in a row, it is likely > >that I have not been diving for a week or more by JJ has been, so needs > >to do more time. We then end up doing the oxygen together. > > > >While I need very little deco, I also do not get cold so it makes no > >difference to me how long I am in the water. The more important thing is > >that the riskiest part of our dives are in fact the deco, and that is > >where I need to pay the most attention to my buddy. If I am in a three > >man team, I go ahead and get out but stay suited up in case of a > >problem. > > > >On the other hand, this should be discussed prior to diving, and in fact > >I will not dive with a deco weenie or anyone who needs more deco than is > >realistic. > > > >To put it in perspective, JJ and I did 150 minutes at 285 to finish of A > >Tunnel in Wakulla earlier this summer, and he did 20 more minutes than I > >did , but he had been diving all week. I had not been diving for two > >weeks. > > > > > >Brian Nadwidny wrote: > >> > >> 2 buddies are doing a dive. When doing deco do both buddies have to leave > >> the stops at the exact same time? > >> > >> I've heard some different theories; "Once a buddy team always a buddy > >> team", or "You are responsible for your own deco." > >> > >> So once m20 minutee timer says it's time for me to leave for the next stop do I wait > >> for my buddy and let him control my stops or signal him that my timer says > >> "Go" and then go or what? > >> > >> How do others handle this? > >> > >> Brian > >> -- > >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > > > > >-- > >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Mr Hat's Hell Hole - We ARE South Park - http://www.thehellhole.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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