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When I learned to dive, only 3 years ago, I was taught that you do the deepest dive first, with the second dive being more shallow. However, on a cruise I took this month I encountered just the opposite.
In St. Lucia, with a dive master, we did a two tank dive, both fairly shallow, with the first at 39' and the second at 46'. For the 7' difference I didn't think too much about it, but I did wonder why the deeper dive was second, especially since the dive sites were so close together that it easily could have been reversed.
Our next dives were in St. Vincent, with a dive master, with the first dive going to 64' and the second dive to 85'. Again, these two dives could have been easily reversed since we sailed past site #2 to get to site #1. My bottom time was max-ed out according to my computer.
Our third set of dives was in Bonaire, which we did on our own. We did 92', followed by 64'.
However, I met a diver from England onboard our cruise ship and invited him along on the Bonaire dives. I explained what happened on the first two dive trips and he informed me that there is now a school of thought that says bottom time alone is the deciding factor on dives, not how deep the dives were or the order in which they were taken.
Anyone familiar with this?
In St. Lucia, with a dive master, we did a two tank dive, both fairly shallow, with the first at 39' and the second at 46'. For the 7' difference I didn't think too much about it, but I did wonder why the deeper dive was second, especially since the dive sites were so close together that it easily could have been reversed.
Our next dives were in St. Vincent, with a dive master, with the first dive going to 64' and the second dive to 85'. Again, these two dives could have been easily reversed since we sailed past site #2 to get to site #1. My bottom time was max-ed out according to my computer.
Our third set of dives was in Bonaire, which we did on our own. We did 92', followed by 64'.
However, I met a diver from England onboard our cruise ship and invited him along on the Bonaire dives. I explained what happened on the first two dive trips and he informed me that there is now a school of thought that says bottom time alone is the deciding factor on dives, not how deep the dives were or the order in which they were taken.
Anyone familiar with this?