How deep do you usually dive?

[SDAnderson]

As long as I get to sit in on the planning I'd do it once anyway, just for the experience. Knowledge is never wasted, and IMO I'm always there to learn, as long as someone is willing to teach.

That's a fair trade from my perspective. Another set of eyes and ears during the planning phase isn't a bad thing and I'll more that willing to let somebody else do the heavy lifting. Hands on experience isn't a good substitute for quality instruction, but it is an excellent addition.

fftopic: And now, back to our regularly scheduled thread...kokoyo11, any more questions?

 

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I was taught that deep diving SUCKS!! (as in air) I would rather dive at 60 feet and stay down alot longer than dive at 120 feet and come right back up.

Why would you go to the trouble of diving down there only to come straight back up?

If theres something to see down there why not stay and look at it.

 

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To get back to topic on this thread most diving round here tends to be between 8m and 40m (25 - 130ft) purely because thats what the sea bed topography gives us so where most of the wrecks are. Tend not to know until actually on the water what sites we'll try and dive (until we gauge conditions).

 

[EricDive]

My dives generally average 30 - 100 feet. It is always a function of what we are planning to see and it's always planned ahead. We have a lot of wrecks in the 1000 Islands and this is the range of the ones I have been diving. I have been to 130 feet when I did my AOW and it was interesting, but I'm getting over my deeper for deeper sakes first year of diving and find that I appreciate the extra bottom time of the shallower dives. About to start my second year of diving (at dive #52) and am really pumped to get going, just waiting for the water temp to rise a little (it's still in the 30's) as I dive wet.

Eric

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Totally depends on where I'm diving and what there is to see. Today my first dive was to 126 fsw. But by far the majority of my dives are much less than that ... many are no deeper than 40 fsw.

Sometimes the coolest stuff you'll see on the dive will be at safety-stop depth ... I usually plan to spend a little extra time there just to check out all the little critters hanging out in the eel grass ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[DiveKitty68]

At what deepth are the morjoity of the wrecks?

I had great fun snorkling the wrecks in the harbor in Barbados. The German U-boat was cool...
It would have been even better with scuba.
I suppose I just don't want the thrill factor of rec diving to wear off too soon

 

[glbirch]

Totally depends on where I'm diving and what there is to see. Today my first dive was to 126 fsw. But by far the majority of my dives are much less than that ... many are no deeper than 40 fsw.

Sometimes the coolest stuff you'll see on the dive will be at safety-stop depth ... I usually plan to spend a little extra time there just to check out all the little critters hanging out in the eel grass ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I hear that. First time I ever saw a Spot Winged Comb Jelly was on a safety stop in Cozumel. Thought it was some sort of lost Hollywood special effect for a second. There are places where you can spend the whole dive at ten or twenty feet and come back thinking it was one of the best dives you've ever had.

 

[QuoVadis]

Why would you go to the trouble of diving down there only to come straight back up?

If theres something to see down there why not stay and look at it.

I do not push the tables....120 feet is 12 minutes bottom time for me......60 feet is 55 minutes bottom time. Now if there was a planned reason to go down that deep (to check a wreck etc.) then of course i would stay down as long as possible, but if i had my choice i would plan something toward the shallow end of the water.

 

[Walter]

Am I the only one who thinks the general trend of this thread is irresponsible considering the person asking the question isn't even certified? The depths being discussed are totally unrealistic for this type of discussion. I'd hate for this kid to die because he felt it was ok to dive ridiculously deep after reading this thread.

 

[glbirch]

Am I the only one who thinks the general trend of this thread is irresponsible considering the person asking the question isn't even certified? The depths being discussed are totally unrealistic for this type of discussion. I'd hate for this kid to die because he felt it was ok to dive ridiculously deep after reading this thread.

I think so, as I don't see that. Kokoyo11 commented that most people seem to dive fairly shallow and wondered why we don't dive deeper. Most of the responses so far seem to be along the lines of "lots to see shallow, no point to going deeper unless there's a reason". Fair question from somone who hasn't taken a BOW course yet. I expect if/when he does he will have a much better understanding of the physics involved and the reasons behind recreational limits.