How deep have you gone and why ?

[northcoast_diver]

This was along time ago, 1993, I think. There has been so many deep dive since they all just seem to run togather.

Bounce dive basically, 4 hours of decompression, OC. Thats about all there is to tell.

But now I am diving CCR.

He has no way of knowing that you are one of the top 10 technical divers in the world however.

 

[mzenzer]

My two deepest were 115ft in Vortex Springs, and 130+ at a rig off Louisiana. Reasons at Vortex were because we just wanted to go to the back of the cave and take a pic at the grating, and at the rig my buddy and I were chasing a big red snapper.

Been on quite a few rig dives to right around 100ft.

 

[Frank Kohler]

deepest 80 ft, reasson because thats where the fish and the dive site where.

now how deep do i want to go about 230 to 260 because thats where some really cool wrecks are :-D

 

[reefsong]

What exactly is the point of the thread's question? The actual depth of a dive hardly matters unless discussed in context of why you were there, what you planned to see or do at that depth, and whether you were properly geared and trained to be there in the first place. Otherwise, it sure sounds like a lot of macho chest beating to me.

 

[holdingmybreath]

What exactly is the point of the thread's question?

Maybe it's like the broken pencil... pointless. Sorry I didn't expound on the dive...

The actual depth of a dive hardly matters unless discussed in context of why you were there,.

Kinda like the mountain climbers say, because it's there

what you planned to see or do at that depth,

to see what the rope was attached to, have a look around, and then turn around

and whether you were properly geared

mask, fins, snorkel, wetsuit (I don't think I had weights on that day)

and trained to be there in the first place.

trained myself for awhile

Otherwise, it sure sounds like a lot of macho chest beating to me

now that you mention it, the chest is kinda black and blue...

 

[vjongene]

Several dives in the 50-55 m range, on air, to visit the "atomic" wrecks at Bikini Atoll. Relatively long (~30 min) deco stops on 75% O2. Would not have missed these dives for anything!

I regularly dive in the 40-50 m range in the Lake of Geneva, because the visibility doesn't start improving until about 35-40 m in summer. I'd rather be deep and see something than shallow in pea soup...

 

[grahamsp]

Navy deep workup dive to 69 metres (226 feet) on air in Loch Striven, Scotland. Ah, the good old days before all that boring occupational health and safety stuff.

 

[Mike Veitch]

Ah, the good old days before all that boring occupational health and safety stuff.

Too funny, i like it!

Mind you, a Loch sounds a wee bit cold for me...

 

[ScubaFreak]

52m is my deepest yet. we were in a quarry, fresh water- cold- crystal clear viz- we had a limit and said we hit the bottom or the limit, either way thats as deep as we go- so we hit the bottom 3 metres before our limit. - looooong time before we got out too sat playing rock paper scissors for about 15 mins

 

[voop]

Hmm...I do not have my logbook around so I do not remember how deep I've gone over the years.

These days, I do routinely find myself in the 50-60m range (I recently learned that 60m should be about 200fsw), although I will go to almost any depth (although not necessarilly as deep as Curt quite yet) if there's something worth looking at. Depth is just a number, used for making the appropriate dive-plan and mixing the appropriate gasses......

As to the why: well, why do we dive in the first place? To look at the underwater world. So if what I want to look at is at a given depth, then that's where I'll have to go to see it.

Some of the sites I dive are popular "walls" or steep slopes, which are also used for training-dives and/or once-a-year divers to look at "pretty things". This means that the 10-30m depth-range there is somewhat saturated by divers -- and that much of the interresting stuff to look at there has retreated in fear of dangeling hoses, retractors and flapping fins. Decending well below yields good dive-experiences with, typically, very curious and active wildlife -- and allows me to piggybag on a typical dive-charter-boat (which means: cheap transport). Of course, these dives are planned and executed as deep-dives, with appropriate gasses, schedules etc.

As people have mentioned, big boats tend to sail in deep waters -- and also to sink in deep waters. So for wreck-diving, the "why" is really "do you want to see that boat or not?" In many cases I do ....