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Remember, Google results vary largely, so it would have been better to give links. In my case, the 5th link is from our buddies at Shearwater, and does a decent job in my opinion. Review of Deep Stops in Technical Diving - Shearwater Research If I'm not mistaken. I guess it should be in Deco...

Funny, I tried a dpv on my last OW dive, and really found it to be meh at best.

My experience with the xdeep is that it will handle close to anything that is within its lift capacity. Now I'm not sure what you're calling "heavier steel", as some steel tanks are simply garbage to dive with (not even a matter of BM or SM), but I don't think those reached the US too often...

If you guys are considering 20 minutes at 40m a long bottom time, I'm disappointed. :eyebrow: :confused:

I don't use a ccr, so I'm not sure what "cough" you're talking about, but as far as I could find, a "cough" at the end of a breath is typical of airway compression, which is not quite desired, from what I have understood. And it was also presented as being due to dense gas. Sorry I'm...

"Trusted" sources have almost killed a diver less than a year ago 50km away from where I live.

I never figured why one would be panicked when removing a weight belt, but what do I know :confused:. Some of us we wear a belt because we want weights, not because we want droppable weights.

I feel you shouldn't even be allowed on a ccr when you're that clueless about decompression, but to each their own.

Ah okay, it didn't seem clear to me as it was written previously.

So let me get this straight, as I really hope it is just that you (or me) have (has) some kind of language issue. You have increments at 48m and 51m. You are saying that if my average depth is 50m, then I use the values given from the 48m increment?

I sure hope that's not what the book says o_O

The only issue is that people are confusing RD with RD(tm). You can get a pretty good estimate of the dive plan with it without needing to rely everytime on a deco planner, for instance. It also lets you know what deco you should expect when diving (though I've only heard of one brand of...

Wops, I wasn't clear. I meant a 300b valve on a 200b tank. Yoke regs shouldn't be used against a 300b pressure anyway.

Yup, if your regs are yoke, always carry the required insert imo. It may or may not be useful, but the weight and the cost of those is so small that I'd rather have it and use it maybe once, than getting annoyed by having to settle with a crap regulator. Example: DGX Insert 200-BAR DIN to Yoke...

In Switzerland I've only seen DIN. In France I've seen both, but I didn't use them (the justification was that yoke is stronger against impacts, go figure why one would want that). In Oz they usually had convertibles or at least on most tanks. (Not quite true for the university club, where I...

Semi-offtopic question here. Why do you feel the need to use "RD" from UTD (whichever version you want, I don't care), when you could use RD to emulate a more optimal decompression schedule? It's really confusing.

In what state is the wreck The Empress of Ireland? I guess that would have done it (plus, that way it's clear that we're talking about wrecks, as it's not obvious from the first screen on sb)

My post might get deleted but someone has to say it. The title of this thread sounds like a bad adult movie.

You wish. This conversation routinely pops up in France, and guess what? You do 20km to go from one dive club to the other, and it's taught differently. The main agency there doesn't even have standardization apart of the very basic signs. Heck some of them even disagree on how to signal "out of...

I don't quite understand the issue. If you dive a "normal" (ie long hose and necklaced backup), you just put them both on the same 1st stage and the lengths will be fine? You keep breathing the long hose and give that one if you have to.