How long is your longest dive?

[TSandM]

Longest dive, period, was 140 minutes in Ox Bel Ha cave (doubles, stage). Longest open water dive was 90 minutes in Maui, on an Al80 (average depth about 25 feet). Longest cold water dive was 80 minutes (double 85s, drysuit). I was pretty well popsicled at the end of that one.

 

[Walter]

4 hour solo dive at Venice Beach picking up fossils. Over two hours is pretty common.

 

[Mr Carcharodon]

104 minutes at old marineland. Used a single HP100 and may have run into the contingency gas some.

 

[Scott]

Two hours and 20 minutes in Cozumel on a shore dive with an AL80. Max depth 25'.

 

[adurso]

Over 3 hours at Venice, FL hunting fossils. Would be longer but my wife gets chilled even with a 7mm in summer.

 

[drbill]

Two hours 38 minutes on a single HP120. I entered the water under good conditions, a storm came up during the dive, and I exited at the end to find my hand cart with my dive gear had been blown across the parking lot at the Casino Point Dive Park and no other divers were still there. Got some great video of giant kelpfish!

 

[Rhone Man]

Two hours 38 minutes on a single HP120. I entered the water under good conditions, a storm came up during the dive, and I exited at the end to find my hand cart with my dive gear had been blown across the parking lot at the Casino Point Dive Park and no other divers were still there. Got some great video of giant kelpfish!

Reminds me of a dive (not an especially long dive) when we went down it was glorious sunshine, and half a dozen dive boats were moored up. When we come up, it was gray, raining and blowing a (metaphorical) gale and there were no boats to be seen.

It felt like a scene from the movie 28 Days Later.

 

[Zieg]

Not long enough.

 

[tflaris]

I am sure there will be a sharp divergence between technical divers and the rest, but I thought it might be fun to have a quick straw poll as to how long various SB members have remained submerged.

(No commercial saturation dives please!)

4 hours 50 minutes
Cave exploration


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[MaxBottomtime]

128 minutes at Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes on a single 120. Several dives between 120-125 on a single 119 at Marineland with a maximim depth of 75'.