I just run planning at 1.0 and have extra (sometimes lots!) when it goes well...
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Actually, since all of these values are silly. What's the wet volume of the cylinder?
But for this specific example, the error is indeed rather small - assuming an 11.1l tank your SAC (in Subsurface terms) would be .38 cuft/min (we only provide reasonable accuracy to 2 digits - your pressure readings aren't at 3 digit precision...
That is a really significant improvement, a good example of the effect of experience, with a change in equipment or with diving in generalAs I have gotten more experience my air consumption has continued to drop and I now have quite a few dives that are in the .38 range. This is with three tanks and a spear and a scooter. When I first started diving this configuration my consumption went up to around .53. I have done 340 hours underwater since Christmas so it has really come down as a result. I will leave my response at .4-.49. Thanks for the poll.
Those fins were experiment ones, and I’ve heard of them. Apparently, they are very efficient.It used to be .53 or so at the beginning of a trip and around .43 at the end of a trip if just drift diving a single tank. It was higher when I started diving three tanks and kicking in cold water. Now I'm kicking less as I use a scooter and I'm diving a 7mil here in Coz with temps in the mid to low 80s because warmth uses less gas. I do still fin for stability and when I'm exploring a reef or a wall I'm not using a scooter so I'm kicking three tanks and a scooter and sometimes a camera too but at least I'm not kicking to get from point a to point b.
Sounds like we are using about the same amount of gas now. Most of the people that I know that use that amount are petite women. Cameron used even less than that. I remember a shore dive we did one new years day. He had a shorty with 2,200 psi to start and we dove for 90 minutes on it. He was pushing a big effing camera rig too and using some silly fins someone had asked him to try out that looked like venetian blinds. He always amazed me. I miss him terribly.