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> How about it > everyone, your opion, am I being just to conservative when I > recommend much more experience for this dive?> In my opinion: no, you are not being too conservative. My biggest gripe with the "130 limit" espoused by the "leaders" of the recreational diving community has nothing to do with the fact that I think deeper dives can be made within adequate margins of safety, it has to do with the converse implication that dives to depths of less than 130 feet are inherently "safe" for recreational divers. This is total nonsense. As soon as you get deeper than what you could ascend from on a single breath of air - which for me is about 50 feet (when you add in the over-compensatory exhalation I, and most other divers, do to avoid AGE), then depth per se becomes almost irrelevent - they all carry increased risk. I have no doubt that many individuals with fewer than "a couple hundred dives" are capable of managing problems at 120 feet. But I'm not sure how one would find out if he or she is among those individuals without enduring a potentially life-threatening situation. Therefore, I'd prefer to recommend to all new divers that they do "a couple hundred" dives before getting much below 60-80 feet - if for no other reason than to enhance their abilities to stay calm underwater (due to increased general familiarity with the environment, and self-confidence). For what its worth, my first several hundred dives were at depths of 70 feet or less. Just my opinions. Aloha, Rich Richard Pyle deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or* ******************************************************************* "WHATEVER happens to you when you willingly go underwater is COMPLETELY and ENTIRELY your own responsibility! If you cannot accept this responsibility, stay out of the water!" *******************************************************************
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