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I don't know if Craig Campbell reads this group. I hope so because I
am relucatnat to post this to rec.scuba

craig@ca*.ca*.nc*.co* (Craig Campbell) wrote:

> Just to demonstrate the NO agency has the corner on foolish divers,
> I know of a NEW NAUI OWI student, freshly certified, who took his 
> girlfriend, and friend, with rental equipment and 60ft^3 tanks on
> a dive to ~160 ft.  (No redundancy, experience, etc...)
> 
> This fellow then boasted of his exploits to my buddies who are technical
> divers.  I got the impression that he missed the point of their responses,
> since after Peter chewed him out and advised him to keep his dive a secret,
> he repeated his boast to Darren (and received another lecture).

and followed up later with:

> I think he was just trying to impress the people he knew.  (Hence the
retelling
> of the story, even after negative feedback....he hasn't yet told me the 
> story.)  I'm sure his equally green buddies (diving a threesome) simply 
> followed a more dominant personality.  Is he a bad diver?  I don't know.
> He is definately an inexperienced diver, who made an extremely poor decision,
> and got away with it.

I was just musing this over in my mind and I reckon that, depending on air
consumption rates, a 60cuft cylinder would last between 10 and 20 mins on a
dive to this depth. Given that we are talking about a novice and 2 non-divers
(by implication) I would tend to think their consumption rates would be quite
high.

Descent and ascent alone would account for at least 6 mins, and I would be
surprised if they did it that quickly. The NDL is something like 5 or 6 mins
(I'm guessing because I don't have tables in front of me) so they were running
a tight schedule. Lucky or not, I think this is quite an impressive profile
for a novice to complete safely.

Please note that I don't condone the dive in any way. Flame away.

Alan

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