Well kids, I just did a 300' dive, and I think that's about the bottom for me on OC. All that gas, all those bottles to haul around for such a short bottom time... For me, I think I hit the effort/return/risk limit. I don't know if a RB is in my future, and you still need to carry bailout, but it seems that anything deeper just isn't for me unless something changes.
I'd be interested to know if anyone is doing regular dives beyond 300' (non-commercial), and if so, on OC or RB?
Just stumbled into this thread:
Your thoughts and experiences are paralleling what I and the team I dive with have been thinking for the past 2 years. And we are making the switch. We don't do regular dives beyond 300' (I doubt if there is anyone outside the commercial area that can make that claim) but we have come to recognize that we have reached the limit on what we feel comfortable doing on OC and if we want to go deeper we have to switch mindsets. It was either that or abandon our goals. And I wasn't ready to do that.