decompression

So I'm coming into the 21st century here. I was raised to run your deco plan on V-planner, write it down a bunch of places, then dive your plan... With a plan and a bottom timer is how I've dove for years. I've finally decided to come out of the stone age and buy a Shearwater. So here's my...

Hi! I’m relatively new to diving and I’m not sure if I should be panicking or if I’m being paranoid. I did a dive on Saturday to 17m. We started to do a safety stop but I had an issue with my drysuit where the legs inflated, pushing my fins off and pulling me upwards. My buddy and the DM...

I was discussing the safety aspects of using 'in-water recompression' in the situation where a recompression chamber is not nearby - i.e. more that a day or more from the dive site. Has anyone had any experience of using this form or recompression/decompression? Has anyone got views on the...

Hi all, I have a few questions pertaining to dive planning in the technical realm that I hope other members on this board can enlighten me on. 1.How do divers doing technical dives with bottom timers or gauge mode only actually go about their decompression planning? My impression is that they...

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Hi, Just recently did a reasonably deep 2 tank dive. Kept a virtually identical dive profile as the others I was diving with - neither of them went into deco but somehow my Zoop put me into around 25 mins of deco. I decided to ignore it as my profile was identical to my buddies, and to go by...

Hello, There are a lot of gadgets nowadays that let you stay underwater for longer periods of time; however, I was wondering, if you freedive to a certain depth and then breath from those equipment while you're under, assuming it's filled with regular air (not oxygen or any special mix) and...

Hello everyone, This post more than asking a question or providing an answer to the subject topic, is a pause of reflection upon the issue and maybe provide an initiating seed for some useful discussion. We usually hear saying plan your dive and dive your plan and in Tech diving to plan we do...

Hi everyone I would really aprciate your help. My boyfriend and I did a dive 2 days ago and the next morning he woke up feeling a little sick. It didn't worry us much he just seemed a bit under the weather but not serious. We went for another dive that afternoon and as we were acending he was...

I wrote a short review about the thoroughly discussed NEDU study on deep stops. In brief, I think that the type of diving tested during this study (heavy exertion at depth, divers being cold during deco) is not very representative of the tech diving me and my dive buddies do in the Philippines...

A 2012 study indicates that nitrogen narcosis may persist even after ascent from depth, including at the surface post-dive. What does this mean for divers? Read about the science behind the study... the results... and potential guidelines for divers in my latest article: Does Nitrogen...

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