Basking Ridge Diver
Contributor
"When you breathe from a scuba tank, you breathe air at the same pressure as the surrounding water. This means that, although the water presses in on you, the air you breathe presses back out with the same force. This makes it easy to breathe. Breathing pressurized air under water is the same as you are breathing now. The air around you is pressing in on you from all sides, but it is not hard to breathe because the air you are breathing is pushing out with the same pressure as the air around you."
To make this question easier - if a 33 foot wave passes over head while on scuba - would that essentially change the ATA (adding 1ATA) or because it is moving does this alter/spread the overall pressure? I was curious only as a hypothetical question while on a safety stop and wave action occurs if you are holding a steady stop would the wave action cause you to fluctuate your "depth"?
To make this question easier - if a 33 foot wave passes over head while on scuba - would that essentially change the ATA (adding 1ATA) or because it is moving does this alter/spread the overall pressure? I was curious only as a hypothetical question while on a safety stop and wave action occurs if you are holding a steady stop would the wave action cause you to fluctuate your "depth"?