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A little backstory: This thread was actually split off from a fatality thread where a student died recently (easter weekend) during a tech deep class with an instructor. The instructor surfaced 20-30 minutes earlier, confused, onlookers just thought he was tired, he never mentioned having a...

A few posters (mainly PfcAJ), thinks the max END should be 100ft, and therefore you shouldn't dive air past 100 feet. (I might be putting words in his mouth with the air statement). Anything with an END below 100 feet is where he claims divers starts to die.

These same guys preaching trimix were probably calling it voodoo gas 20 years ago and claiming anyone who dives it is ‘stupid’ because their were so many unknowns about it. How many have died on CCR’s due to carelessness, bad planning, improper equipment maintenance/use, flat...

so now its 100 feet, you guys don't think anyone should go below 100 feet on air? correct? i can understand not wanting to hang out below 100' for an extended period, but not going at all just because you're on air seems super duper ultra-conservative to me. for all we know, this diver had...

while I appreciate the link, I read the first few pages then started skimming through. it's really a pretty poor example, it seems like there's a laundry list of things they did wrong, and was there ever a followup on whether or not the CCR malfunctioned or was improperly used (ie: the life of...

lots of He. I asked about the mixes because I'm not trained on trimix yet. To do it locally, would require this class first: DSAT Tec Deep Diver Course Details which involves deep diving on air. I'm assuming this guy was in the same class. nobody here's argueing 180' on air is a bad...

12/75? :buggy: sounds cold. are these common mixes?

Ok, what mix can you come up for a 120ft END, and how deep will that take you? 250' maybe? There's a lot of people on this board who probably dive mixes to depths pushing them well past an END of 120... although admittedly, probably not very many going to an END of 180'. I guess they're...

What's your definition of a safe depth? The point here is, we don't know why the guy was at 179'. I'm not sure why everyone is assuming he meant to be there.

Again... we don't know the planned dive. Maybe they were only supposed to go to 130' and something happened. What do you consider a safe depth for diving on air? The shop at the lake provides trimix, however before you can get trimix certed through PADI, you have to take tech deep which...

Well something obviously went wrong, we need to know the planned dive before we can speculate about why someone ended up at 179'. Should also be noted, the 179' reading came off of the dead divers computer, have no idea if the instructor was with him or not at that depth. Would be extremely...

To clarify, a man from Vestel, NY named Miguel Perez-Troche was taking a Tech deep class from an instructor from Tulsa, OK named Randy Piper. They went to 179' on air. Don't know if this was the planned dive or depth, but seeing as it was a tech deep class, deep water is definitly what they...

a definitive FAQ would be nice, problem is, the answers to the questions you just posed change from year to year. would have to be very basic... and would still lend people to asking questions here. maybe a breif tutorial on how to use the search function is called for when people are...

wooden clams dance hah

My first wreck dive in the ocean was off of George's boat just last year... my most recent dive was off of George's boat just two weeks ago. His passion for it is one of the reasons I've been hooked ever since. When that man splashed with his crowbar... it was magical.

I'm not a fan of the black diamond but love my aqualung regs. BC's don't really need any servicing beyond what you can do yourself very easily. As for the regs, how much do you plan on diving? I'd think servicing on them will be minimal in the first 2 years, so why spend the extra $6-800...

except the dollar is crap, with inflation if you buy 10 air fills now, in a month air fills might go up to $30 a fill... then you're really saving.

Terrillja, college has nothing to do with it, you can normally get group discounts from hotels, diveshops, anywhere if you have a large enough group.

An updated article from http://www.townonline.com/scituate/homepage/x298909573 Search for missing diver suspended -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Ryan Bray GateHouse News Service Thu Sep 06, 2007, 11:06 AM EDT...

they say why the flag was no longer attached? had it been cut or unclipped or something?