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Newmany thanks for you comment. I was hoping to tap to others' experience and what you said is very much what I was looking for. Even after a few hundred (or a thousand and spare) dives you are bound to mess up if you prod your confort zone (no shame in making mistakes not learning from them is...

Well the contingency plan was .... light. You are obviously right. I am a relatively new scooter user, inability of maintain buddy contact when you are going straight ahead and have a slower scooter is a given, if the guy in front does not slow down. The right plan would have been the slower...

Both good points I was on a spool (also had a reel with 90+ meters but it di not occur to me to move the DSMB from spool to reel. Right, but in crisis you refuge in what you know how to do. I could have but with a spool and unfamiliar with scootering ... I choose the best (at the time)...

It worked on Chrome it does not in Safari. I will try to clean cache and cookies but I am on a trip so I will do it next weekend at home. Saturday I gained a few grey hairs but I was able to post it in the near missed and lesson learned! Cheers

Hello everybody, yesterday I did learn something from my dive, and I am going to share even if it might rise some (justified) criticism. Plan was to dive the wreck of Salpi, a cargo ship sunk in 1942 by a mine laid by the HMS Rorqual (a mine laying British sub) while navigating from...

Hello, I am in the process of loading a post and I was planning to attach a couple of pictures. It fails with "There was a problem loading your media". This happens both trying to do it in the thread creation and in the media gallery. Using safari on imac. I am going to switch browser and se...

I could have answered without running Multideco .... is 25% less: 17593.3 ltr Trimix 6/90 11271.1 ltr Trimix 12/85 2435.3 ltr Trimix 18/75 37218.7 ltr Trimix 20/75 12544.6 ltr Triox 50/30 3796.5 ltr HeliOx 90/10 84859.5 ltr TOTAL I love the computer when it tells me I need exactly x.3...

I am mixing gas for next weekend dives, after using up my gas this weekend. If I am done early (I am in Italy and it is 7 pm) and my wife lets me (I have to BBQ tonight) I will give it a go.

No problem. I used 20 work phase and 20 deco (lt/min), but I use a bit less in both cases ... but considering the config ... it is safe to assume that SAC would go up

I breathe a lot :wink:

Kay Dee I do not usually post dive plans .... there are too many people ready to take it up and dive them. This one is so extreme tha I do not believe any body would dive it but nevertheless I am I going to obliterate the middle of it just to make sure .... In developing this plan I kept in...

Also arresting your descent at those depths will require huge amount of gas to inflate the BCD whose inflator is usually not designed to handle the gas density at 32,33 bar ...

Not sure at 179 mt (never been there and no intention to find out), but at the bottom of a cave or in a dark water dive, having a buddy disentagle you while you relax allows you to save gas and not to build up CO2. I guess that is much more important at 179 than at 60 (were I was glad I had a...

Same here, wrote one article couple of years ago, was asked for a profile as author, got published and then nothing. The email address of the editor (Asser Salama which is asser followed by the at sign and domain techdivingmag.com written like this as an antispam) did not reply to a previous...

Y-40 is a lot of fun in the shallow, the pit if fun for free divers not for scuba. It is just a deep cilinder starting at -15 and going down to -40 .... In the remainder you can walk upside down under the bridge, enter in wide overhead, or restrictions ... enjoy being in warm water and benign...

Strictly no deco dives in Y-40 .... And at the bottom of the pit with a single tank racking up deco in thermal water is a good place to take a nap :-)

:popcorn: You will never know how big a fish you are until you seek larger ponds

This is key. Although no plan survives impact with reality, planning is everything (you weight options, course of action, branches and contingencies) and sticking to the plan is key. It reduces the amount of thinking and speeds up the decision making. This applies to all dangerous endeavours...

I have been diving since 1980, I was 14, brought down by my father and I have no clue how many dives I did since then. I can guesstimate (and for those wondering more than a thousand less than five ... averaging conservatively 1 dive per week for 40 years) but it has no value to me ... Being not...

Also not sure what was the weight of the plane (Max T/O Weight might be above max landing weight) so unless they dumped fuel landing might not have been an option in the early stage of flight. This would have included climbing (in order not to shower people with Jet fuel) and at that point...