Of those 1900 dives, how many were surfacing GFs > 70?
For your deco dives, did you do a safety stop after the mandatory stops?
For your non deco dives did you do a safety stop?
In other words, while the computer you had monitoring depth happened to be have limits at approx GF95, what did you actually experience as regards to tissue load?
What were the circumstances of these dives? Water temperature? Repetitive? Long or short surface intervals?
Would you dive those settings in the Fjords of Norway? Or at Bikini?
What you are doing here is giving the impression that diving to a GF of 95 is a fine idea because you have done it 1900 times and nothing bad has happened.
Hi
@KenGordon
I dived an Oceanic Pro Plus 2 from 2002-2010 and have been diving a VT 3 from 2010 to present. My first backup was a Cochran EMC-14, then an Oceanic Geo 2. I switched to a Dive Rite Nitek Q in 2016, to learn about Buhlmann ZH-L16C with GF. I have only had my Teric since last May, and only have about 100 dives on it. I have not had a chance to use SurfGF much yet.
My dives are very different than yours, I have never pretended otherwise. The vast majority of my dives are no stop. From my brief experience, I would say the usual SurfGF for these dives is in the 70s. Yes, I always do a safety stop, often 3 minutes, sometimes longer. The SAUL probabilities of DCS include a routine 3 min safety stop in the calculation. For the majority of these dives, I never closely approach the NDL of DSAT or the NDL of a GF high of 95.
For my light deco dives I satisfy my deco obligation and then do additional time at the last stop, often 3-5 minutes. I have only done a few of these dives with my Teric. I would guess that the SurfGF is usually in the 80s. So, even for these dives, I generally do not approach a SurfGF of 95
My diving varies quite a bit. I will often do just 2 dives a day, with a relatively short surface interval 30-60 min, when diving at home in Florida, though 4 dives per day in not uncommon. On liveaboards and when traveling, 3-5 dives per day is common. I dive wet. Most of my diving is in temperatures between the low 60s and mid 80s (17-29). I have less than 50 dives in colder water from 47-mid 50s (8-13). I've not been to Norway or Bikini, but have been fortunate to dive Red Sea, Cocos, Galapagos, Revillagigedos. I have dived the same algorithm, DSAT, on all my dives, for the last 3 years, along with a computer running Buhlmann.
My style of diving works out very well for me, within the spectrum of dives I describe. I make an informed decision, everyone else should do the same. As I've aged, I have become more conservative regarding the longer safety stops and the padded shallow time on light deco dives. I'm now learning how I want to incorporate the SurfGF available to me on my Teric. Believe me, I'd like to continue diving for as long as I'm able.
Very best and good diving,
Craig