Mailing List Archive Mailing List Archive
Mike, > I'd either find another site, or I'd sit this one out. This is an all too common problem with dive planning. You are forced into a screwed up situation because the original plan is blown out. So rather than do the smart thing and abort, diver's try to put a square peg into a round hole. Procedures are there for a reason, they shouldn't be ignored for the sake adjusting a dive site. Conditions changed between the beginning and end of the dive. There was almost no current at the start. Current was much stronger at the end of the dive. There was no way it would be known ahead of time (new area of the world, never dove before) >What happens if someone get's blown off??? What was the back up plan??? Obviously you have never dove off a live-aboard in areas George would call "third world countries" :-) I have dove with people on this list on wrecks of remote areas from live-aboards with no chase boat. You either do it like everybody else or you hang up your diving gear. And I am not saying that it is right. It's just the way it is there. > Use your spool and you won't have to worry about this. BTW, I've been in some pretty serious swells and 10' is never been a problem for me. True, didn't think of that. The added length could have helped. > Are you saying you planned a 70m dive and your only deco gas was 02 in some screwed up fashion??? I *didn't* say that 50% wasn't used. May be it was a bad example... The topic was about O2 tox, and I was trying to say that I don't believe deco at 1.7 *at rest* is worse than deco at 1.6 *working* since everyone seems to be so worry about staying at exactly 6.00m +/- 0.001m -Phi -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
Navigate by Author:
[Previous]
[Next]
[Author Search Index]
Navigate by Subject:
[Previous]
[Next]
[Subject Search Index]
[Send Reply] [Send Message with New Topic]
[Search Selection] [Mailing List Home] [Home]