French exception
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I'm the only person in history who is going to live forever.
So far so good.
But on a more serious note, divers in the Med find deco on back gas and air to 50m a lot more acceptable than in the US and there is no statistical evidence point to it being more dangerous, most incidents resulting in deaths are still due to health problems.
So far so good.
But on a more serious note, divers in the Med find deco on back gas and air to 50m a lot more acceptable than in the US and there is no statistical evidence point to it being more dangerous, most incidents resulting in deaths are still due to health problems.
OMyMyOHellYes
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No like? Just don't go there. Plenty of water elsewhere.
That was easy.
That was easy.
I did not know, too. And before becoming a professional instructor, I did sone 30 or perhaps 40 deep air dives, at 60 m or even more (75 at Montecristo island, just once).
However I had a couple of high risk situations and one very close call.
I classify now those dives as youngster's crazyness.
Never did anything so risky in the last 40 years.
I've said it before, but I'm old and old people repeat their stories so I figure it's ok.
Back in the dark ages when I had to swim uphill in the snow to SCUBA school, my YMCA instructor handed us US Navy dive tables, including deco tables, and taught us how to use them. There was no prohibition against doing deco diving right out of open water. (Well, there was advice to take it easy and gain experience first before diving deep.)
We were warned about oxygen toxicity, and told under no circumstances go deeper than 200'.
Mixed gases? Only crazy daredevils did it. They'd probably cause fatal nose warts in the long run, if they didn't kill you on the dive. (OK, I made that last bit up.)
Makes me wonder how folks in France would look at me. I learned deco in open water, but by current standards I shouldn't dive deco. (Modern standards haven't stopped me. But I have added modern safety protocols, like redundancy.)
(We also got taught how to use altitude tables in open water class.)
Back in the dark ages when I had to swim uphill in the snow to SCUBA school, my YMCA instructor handed us US Navy dive tables, including deco tables, and taught us how to use them. There was no prohibition against doing deco diving right out of open water. (Well, there was advice to take it easy and gain experience first before diving deep.)
We were warned about oxygen toxicity, and told under no circumstances go deeper than 200'.
Mixed gases? Only crazy daredevils did it. They'd probably cause fatal nose warts in the long run, if they didn't kill you on the dive. (OK, I made that last bit up.)
Makes me wonder how folks in France would look at me. I learned deco in open water, but by current standards I shouldn't dive deco. (Modern standards haven't stopped me. But I have added modern safety protocols, like redundancy.)
(We also got taught how to use altitude tables in open water class.)
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