Should I wear a snorkel or not

[dmaziuk]

was your boat tied off to buoy in 15ft swells?

More importantly, did you wear a 15ft 1in snorkel in them 15ft swells?

 

[Celt]

More importantly, did you wear a 15ft 1in snorkel in them 15ft

Do you understand how an ocean swell works. You don’t stay in the trough when the crest rises. The wave form undulates very like giving a slack rope a shake. The rope doesn’t move. A wave form changes position but doesn’t move across the ocean surface. The water within a wave moves in one direction at the crest and in the opposite direction in the trough.

 

[dmaziuk]

Of course I stay in the trough when the crest rises: with 15ft swells, it's a whole next deco stop and a half and I can't go up that far until I cleared my current ceiling. D'oh.

 

[BlueTrin]

The snorkel thread is still going on two years later

 

[Celt]

Of course I stay in the trough when the crest rises: with 15ft swells, it's a whole next deco stop and a half and I can't go up that far until I cleared my current ceiling. D'oh.

Maybe I’m not explaining properly. Depth is measured from the surface. The station has to rise with the crest. A 15 foot swell height that’s not breaking is going to have 100 feet between the crests. You can’t stay in the trough, you’re on the station.
The depth over the divers doesn’t change.

 

[L13]

Maybe I’m not explaining properly. Depth is measured from the surface. The station has to rise with the crest. A 15 foot swell height that’s not breaking is going to have 100 feet between the crests. You can’t stay in the trough, you’re on the station.

I think you are missing @dmaziuk 's attempts at levity.

 

[BlueTrin]

Of course I stay in the trough when the crest rises: with 15ft swells, it's a whole next deco stop and a half and I can't go up that far until I cleared my current ceiling. D'oh.

When you have big swells, do the dive computer have a delay to update the depth?

It never feels like the computer updates on real time: sometimes I surface and it feels like hell up there but although you could feel it, it never felt that bad at the stop?

 

[Joneill]

Maybe I’m not explaining properly. Depth is measured from the surface. The station has to rise with the crest. A 15 foot swell height that’s not breaking is going to have 100 feet between the crests. You can’t stay in the trough, you’re on the station.
The depth over the divers doesn’t change.

Maybe you don’t understand sarcastic humour?

 

[Celt]

Maybe you don’t understand sarcastic humour?

Possibly, but it read like a misunderstanding of how long ocean swells work, just trying to be helpful.

 

[dmaziuk]

The last 5 pages read like a misunderstanding of how waves work, even after it's been clearly explained in #471: it's Mr. Mojo Rising. I'm just going with the flow.