An age-old question: ways to 60m.
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CG43
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We humans like and believe what we can do ourselves or what we experience in our environment.
That's a good thing because it makes us adapt to requirements.
As far as deep diving with air is concerned, this causes me a problem.
In sports I was always only good average only in freediving I was above average .
When I started scuba diving it was soon possible for me to dive without problems 45m, 50m, 55m .........93m without any special training. If I now consider that divers like Hall , Gilliam , Raimondo Bucher have dived much more and also had some better conditions than me , then the claimed depths are not only possible but even probable .
And here we are arguing about a depth of only 60m.
That's a good thing because it makes us adapt to requirements.
As far as deep diving with air is concerned, this causes me a problem.
In sports I was always only good average only in freediving I was above average .
When I started scuba diving it was soon possible for me to dive without problems 45m, 50m, 55m .........93m without any special training. If I now consider that divers like Hall , Gilliam , Raimondo Bucher have dived much more and also had some better conditions than me , then the claimed depths are not only possible but even probable .
And here we are arguing about a depth of only 60m.
It is a bit problematic to dismiss this question.
This is a "normalization of deviance" discussion but in reverse. The "old" ways worked for a long time and then came the deviants with their "voodoo gas". And all of a sudden, the "tried and true" method became the deviant and Trimix became "the way"
My 2cent opinion: If the question was 80-120 meters, most would say Trimix CCR or OC if you don't dive enough CCR.
Beyond 120 meters it is pretty much CCR.
But between 50-70 is a bit of a grey area because what is "correct" can be hard/expensive/unavaialble.
For me: Dismissing people who dive in the grey area as "dumb" is like saying that legitimate cognitive biases don't exist.
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