Deep Diving

[Fish_Whisperer]

Shadow Divers and The Last Dive are both good.

 

[TheHobster]

Is that all?

You're looking at easily an investment of $15,000-$20,000 in equipment, training and actual diving not to mention the significant time commitment. Not for the timid, nor the poor!

To help you stay married are we gonna have to teach you the concept of the SCUBA buck again??? $100US = $1 SCUBA - so when the spouse says "How much did this crap cost you, you can say only $150 SCUBA bucks dear." of course adding sad beagle puppy eyes helps.

The way to a small fortune in diving? Start with a large one!

 

[TSandM]

Sheck Exley's Caverns Measureless to Man has some chilling stories of deep diving.

Tech divers festooned with stages may look romantic and exciting, but when you start to get to that point, you find out there's a ton of hard work, both in learning and planning, and in skills development, that goes into being able to spend 20 minutes on a wreck, and pay for it with an hour of decompression . . .

 

[ageddiver]

Hey deco's part of the fun! And if you're talking $$, you have to pay for it, too - so it had better be fun

 

[sharkattack]

I just did 150' dive for 30mins on Wednesday down at Pt Lobos Ca. 21/30 Trimix with 50/50. It was a lot of fun. Total dive time was an hour. Very conservative profile, long deco but at about 100' the viz was smokin! every 10' after that seemed like you got another 10' of vis. Lots of color and plenty of natural light. Seas were big and I thought for sure there was going to be a lot of surge. Hardly any. Lot of fun.

 

[Mike Edmonston]

I just did 150' dive for 30mins on Wednesday down at Pt Lobos Ca. 21/30 Trimix with 50/50. It was a lot of fun. Total dive time was an hour. Very conservative profile, long deco but at about 100' the viz was smokin! every 10' after that seemed like you got another 10' of vis. Lots of color and plenty of natural light. Seas were big and I thought for sure there was going to be a lot of surge. Hardly any. Lot of fun.

Man.. that sounds like a great dive. Once I'm over this ear infection, I just might go scooter the Spiegel Grove.

Cheers

Mike

 

[Carolina_Mike]

To help you stay married are we gonna have to teach you the concept of the SCUBA buck again??? $100US = $1 SCUBA - so when the spouse says "How much did this crap cost you, you can say only $150 SCUBA bucks dear." of course adding sad beagle puppy eyes helps.

The way to a small fortune in diving? Start with a large one!

That worked at least one marriage ago, but my wife is a DM and she knows how much this stuff costs. You should have seen her eyes roll this past fall when we shelled out for two new drysuits and an update to my entire tec rig (new Worthington LP85s, a new long hose Zeagle 50D, and the requisite plate/rig & 2-bladder cells)

Oh well, at least I haven't got the CCR fever yet.

Just remember what the late F1 race driver Graham Hill said - "speed costs money, how fast do you want to go?" We can apply this to depth and bottom time.

Mikey

 

[Divin'Papaw]

That worked at least one marriage ago, but my wife is a DM and she knows how much this stuff costs. You should have seen her eyes roll this past fall when we shelled out for two new drysuits and an update to my entire tec rig (new Worthington LP85s, a new long hose Zeagle 50D, and the requisite plate/rig & 2-bladder cells)

:11: :11: :11: :11: And alot of men complain the women are expensive!

 

[in_cavediver]

:11: :11: :11: :11: And alot of men complain the women are expensive!

Well, my wife was. Set of LP85's, transpac, 2 regs, HID light, drysuit, reels, cave training etc..... Now everything has to come in his and hers!

 

[verybaddiver]

bah, noone actually answered his question :>

The deepest dive is around about 320m. Which is getting to just about the limit of scuba. This is due to the amount of tanks needed to decompress, and the speed at which the tanks are breathed dry because of the high ata at these depths. (320m = 31ata :>)

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