There seems to be a pretty clear consensus answer:Does anyone have a favorite diving depth?
Doc:It's the depth that will allow me to see what I came to see.
uncfnp:Wherever the fish and coral are!
Wolfie:Depends on what you're going to see.
Most of us dive to see ‘things’, or do ‘things’, and we go where the ‘things’ are, or can be done. If the fish are at 20, I dive at 20. If the wreck is at 170, I go to 170. If I am testing equipment and the platform I want to use is at 30, I go to 30. If I am just getting wet in the local quarry, the maximum depth is usually where the first thermocline is (usually 27-35). Or, if the viz in the local quarry is really poor in the 20-70 foot range, and opens up very nicely below that, and I am in my drysuit, I will dive at 80. Depth, per se, doesn’t really matter.Vladimir:My favorite dive depth is where the good stuff is
OK, I confess: there are some times when I dive a new wreck and I succumb to the 'head to the bottom first, stick my computer in the sand, then ascend to whatever the best depth to see the wreck might be' syndrome. Or, 'I want to hit 'X' one time on this trip so I just do it, and get it over with'.