How deep have you gone and why ?

[Ishie]

I can't remember if it's 51 or 52 feet. We're steadily increasing our depth, little bits at a time, but it's taking us a little while due to the whole Monterey Bay thing. From the beginning dive sites we frequent, it's a LONG swim. Only made it to the 50s because our instructor (he teaches classes at Breakwater many weekends, so when we go down for the weekend, we try to hook up with him when he doesn't have students actively in the water) kindly agreed to toss us off his zodiac (actually, it's not a zodiac, but I forget what it's called and it looks like a zodiac) at the end of the jetty. Maybe we'll manage to finally actually hit the scuba police limit at Tahoe.

Ishie

 

[SwiTch]

I have done dives routinely on trimix to 200-300 feet. they are planned and and have a purpose in mind - Training and exploration. The longest dive to date (depth 145 feet) was about 5 hours total running time talk about drymouth. I learned to drink gatorade and eat bananas underwater

what are the gatorade procedures...
I would like to get my gatorade C-card also.

 

[fishwatcher]

I know that sport divers should limit their dives to 120ft or less. But many times there is something you really want to see at a greater depth or maybe you just want to prove something. The deepest I have gone on a regular dive was 130ft. doing a tunnel dive in Grand Cayman (tunnel started at 80 at the top of the reef and came out at 130 on a wall). The deepest I have ever been was a 200 bounce dive in Florida to earn a "deep diver" patch and certificate from a NASDS shop in 1972. I swam down a rope to pull a flag off at 200ft. ....... had a safety diver at 50ft. and another at 100ft (this was a very planned dive).

As a recreational diver, I actually prefer to dive to about 70' and less because my air lasts longer. I've often dived deeper than that when there's something to see: Eagle Rays, Shipwreck, Cool Swimthrough, etc. Sometimes (as long as there isn't something especially unique to see), I've stayed with my buddy about 10' above other divers to conserve air and no-deco time. I want to maximize my bottom time and dive conservatively. I do like being able to say I've gone deep (mostly impressive to non-divers I think...), but depth is not my goal.

- Phil

 

[CABear]

I went to 165' in Truk Lagoon. I missed the San Francisco wreck at 200' due to weather. I believe the Blue Hole was 150'. I have over 250 dives over 30 years.

 

[PhotoTJ]

126 off Point Dume. Not much to see, although there was a sculpin in a Big Gulp cup.

 

[JustJoe]

My deepest was 95'. It was a planned dive with folks much more experienced than I. I was backed up with two divers (family) with many more dives than I had at the time.

Joe

 

[DEEPLOU]

Deepest- 197 ft in the warm clear waters of Bonaire diving on the Windjammer (wreck) that goes to 210.
But usually dive 100 ft to 130 ft range in frosty LI waters. Bottom temps in spring hover in mid to upper 30's, and now we are up to warm high 40's or low 50's.
Those depths cause thats where the wrecks are and the bugs and artifacts.

 

[teknitroxdiver]

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1000' - 300'......8' / hr.
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How many hours a day can you decompress for? I think I read it was 16 or 18, what was yall's standard?

 

[DeepSeaDan]

How many hours a day can you decompress for? I think I read it was 16 or 18, what was yall's standard?

...16 hours out of 24

...we did not travel during sleeping hours as one might sleep through the initial sign(s) / symptom(s) of d.c.s.

...nothing worse than waking up all bent out of shape!

Regards,
D.S.D.

 

[budgy]

I have met a few sport divers who seem to have an obsession with depth.