dsteding
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I am diving a shallow (<35 feet) dive site this afternoon with a longish (100 yards) surface swim to get to 15 feet of water. Usually, we surface swim out a ways, drop down, dive the site down to about 30-35 feet, then turn and work our way back up slope, and surface in the shallows to avoid the end of dive surface swim.
Here is the question:
I want to practice shooting my SMB this afternoon, the best place to do so is out in the middle of the dive at about 35 feet. I'd like to work on ascents as well, so I'd want to do a nice, slow ascent with appropriate stops.
Given the dive site, I see a few options, what I'm interested in is whether any one of them would be preferable in terms of dive profiles:
1) Modify the dive plan to shoot the bag out in 35 feet of water at the end of the dive, surface, then do a long surface swim.
2) Shoot the bag at what would be the middle of the dive, then drop back down and finish the dive.
3) Surface swim further out, drop down, do our skills regarding the bag work then finish the dive.
For what it is worth, the total dive time will probably be an hour or so on EAN 32 . . . average depth is, shallow, usually 20-25 feet.
Any thoughts on which of the above would be the prefered approach, and, more importantly, the reasoning behind your choice? My concern is doing a yo-yo profile, I'd do slow ascents regardless, and my thoughts are that this isn't that big of a deal because of the shallow nature of the dive, but I wanted feedback on that.
-Doug
Here is the question:
I want to practice shooting my SMB this afternoon, the best place to do so is out in the middle of the dive at about 35 feet. I'd like to work on ascents as well, so I'd want to do a nice, slow ascent with appropriate stops.
Given the dive site, I see a few options, what I'm interested in is whether any one of them would be preferable in terms of dive profiles:
1) Modify the dive plan to shoot the bag out in 35 feet of water at the end of the dive, surface, then do a long surface swim.
2) Shoot the bag at what would be the middle of the dive, then drop back down and finish the dive.
3) Surface swim further out, drop down, do our skills regarding the bag work then finish the dive.
For what it is worth, the total dive time will probably be an hour or so on EAN 32 . . . average depth is, shallow, usually 20-25 feet.
Any thoughts on which of the above would be the prefered approach, and, more importantly, the reasoning behind your choice? My concern is doing a yo-yo profile, I'd do slow ascents regardless, and my thoughts are that this isn't that big of a deal because of the shallow nature of the dive, but I wanted feedback on that.
-Doug