Dive Bar

[ChrisDee]

Going to place 100% o2 at: 5m / 15 Feet for livaboard customers. What should it be called. Where if this section shoud be discussed? Couldn't find anythig after multiple searches.

Plan is on suspended rest seats / bar at 15 feet to place a few regulators running 100% Oxygen for divers. Figure will be great service for everyone deco wise. Allready have O2 sourch that can supply needs and already have rest stop in place anyways. This is inaddition to the mooring line.
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[BoltSnap]

suspended rest seats

What are these?

 

[scubadada]

Hi @ChrisDee

Is this your liveaboard, where is it, what's the name?

 

[ChrisDee]

What are these?

Fiberglass seats we borrowed from a local trash bin. We run a seperate line over the side, and in wavy days you get a nice ride. (Joke) Actually just a simple splice in line and a couple of plastic and nylon loops. As well as snaps and a gear bag, Just In Case any one wants to use same. I know a number of places and ships do it this way, just trying to get a differing perspective from people that have done this as well. Use also discarded lead for bottom of line. It is little details that make up a good operation. Seperate line makes it very easy to mark depth. Anchor line and fixed mooring bouys lines, is difficult to mark and always changing. So seperate line increases safety and makes life a lot easier for all. Spectra O2 clean hose is very very cheep, couple of one way valves, couple of clamps. This hose is very very strong and light. Whole thing for under a couple of hundred Euros. I know couple of places that do this for some events and such. Why not do it full time???? Should help everyone who wants to with deco. And you don't have to drag extra tank around. Begs point: how many dive boats carry spare O2 tanks and know what style valve customers use? I fully expect the naysayers to come out in force, seems that this is best use of this place.

 

[BoltSnap]

Fiberglass seats we borrowed from a local trash bin. We run a seperate line over the side, and in wavy days you get a nice ride. I know a number of places and ships do it this way, just trying to get a differing perspective from people that have done this as well.

Any pics?

 

[rhwestfall]

in wavy days you get a nice ride.

In wavy days you could get embolized ...

 

[bakodiver391]

We used to do it at Bikini Atoll, but as the operation became more hard-core tech, everyone wanted to carry their own deco gas anyway, so it was too much duplication of effort to handle deco bottles and surface supplied deco both. Where surface supplied is applicable is when the divers are not qualified to carry accelerated deco gasses, so they can only access oxygen at an appropriate depth on the bar.
Have your deco bar suspended from large floats independent of the ship, otherwise it will pitch too much. Just run out extra length of oxygen hose so the hose never pulls tight.

 

[ChrisDee]

In wavy days you could get embolized ...

You can get Barotrauma from hanging on any line close to the surface. You can get barotruama in heavey surf. Do you have something to contribute? Are you trying to make some kind of point?

 

[rhwestfall]

You can get Barotrauma from hanging on any line close to the surface. You can get barotruama in heavey surf. Do you have something to contribute? Are you trying to make some kind of point?

Yes, I do have a point. Holding a hang bar on a pitching boat gives you the option of letting go. Sitting in a chair attached to the pitching boat is an act of stupidity.....

 

[ChrisDee]

We used to do it at Bikini Atoll, but as the operation became more hard-core tech, everyone wanted to carry their own deco gas anyway, so it was too much duplication of effort to handle deco bottles and surface supplied deco both. Where surface supplied is applicable is when the divers are not qualified to carry accelerated deco gasses, so they can only access oxygen at an appropriate depth on the bar.
Have your deco bar suspended from large floats independent of the ship, otherwise it will pitch too much. Just run out extra length of oxygen hose so the hose never pulls tight.

Thanks. I'm just surprized more high end ships don't offer this to their customers, considering the benifits to decompression and the many reports indicating the overall increase in energy and decrease in feeling of malaise. This isn't a bujet operation BTW. And all of the staff have a lot of free time anyways. So it really isn't a big investment either time or money. And the "M" sized tanks , industrial are plentiful, cheep, and easy to secure. And since around here all grades are the same, no prescription required. This isn't a tec operation, this is a service for those that appreciate it and generally want to know if O2 is carried anyways. For care and or during surface interval.