One of the things many divers and guides comment on is they see me kit up early on the boat and get very relaxed before a dive. I get my mental state relaxed. Then when I do dives I can just slow my breathing. This really helps on deep dives where I do not exert myself and am very relaxed. Or even on shallow dives can do bottom times others cannot due to gas consumption.
Do I have some special tolerance to CO2? I don't think so but I go diving for the relaxation for the crazy balance of my mind.
Hello Blackcrusader
The diagram is not nearly as good as the two videos you once linked. One was called something like 'Fat Man's Diving' and shows a diver breathing the way it ideally should be. I can’t find it anymore.
Maybe you also have tips on how to become such a relaxed diver?
For me, it was freediving.
And when Cousteau wrote, "We conducted dive tests at 20 meters for two minutes with the help of several weights on our belts," then that was something I had to be able to do before I dived to the same depths with scuba as he and his divers did.
When divers asked me: What do you think, how deep can you dive with scuba (air)? I usually answered: Three times your depth as a freediver.
Then they did the math and the next question was usually : How deep can you freedive ?
My answer was 30m and the next question was : How is it at 90m ?
I replied: You have about 10% of your physical and mental abilities left.
If that's enough in this situation it's funny, if not you'll drown.
No one who asked these question has dived deep as far as I know . Exaggerating dangers so much that you become untrustworthy is not effective . I dived with divers who did not ask such questions or I dived solo.