How deep have you gone and why ?

[Brandon Belew]

First dive out of OW training, 80ft Oronogo.. would have gone deeper but my trusty flashlight was about bright enough to get lost in a closet.

 

[Meng_Tze]

dont forget, that diving beyoned 40 meters, with rec gear isnt tec diving. its just being stupid.

why do you say that. I do not see why there is a different need in equipment beyond 40m... why not 30m, 25m...?

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

I guess there are a lot of people who are being stupid, then. Better call the scuba police! :light: :shakehead

 

[-hh]

I guess there are a lot of people who are being stupid, then. Better call the scuba police!

The "deepest" question is generally a poor question.

A better question could have been "How deep have you gone more than once (or few times)?"

That would better tease out the guy who normally only dives to ~100fsw, but might have the occasional excursion to ~125 if something warrants it, which doesn't have much bearing to their personal depth record of ~150 on an AL80 from a decade ago.


-hh

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

The "deepest" question is generally a poor question.

A better question could have been "How deep have you gone more than once (or few times)?"

That would better tease out the guy who normally only dives to ~100fsw, but might have the occasional excursion to ~125 if something warrants it, which doesn't have much bearing to their personal depth record of ~150 on an AL80 from a decade ago.


-hh

Agreed. Out of my 54 dives, only two have gone beyond a hundred feet.

 

[Twiddles]

101' to see what all the fuss was about . Turns out everyone was lying there isnt a dam thing down there but a bunch of feathers sticking out of the sand. Turned around and went back to 50' to swim along the reef where fun stuff was.

 

[DiveMom1927]

112 feet on Mothers Day at Mukilteo! What a great dive! Definately the most compfortable Ive been in the water thus far!!!

 

[H2Andy]

jeez... i can't remember if i've posted to this thread or not

150, for my deco procedures class

i have a ton of dives between 110 and 120 feet (been to Grand Cayman twice)

 

[Tigerman]

101' to see what all the fuss was about . Turns out everyone was lying there isnt a dam thing down there but a bunch of feathers sticking out of the sand. Turned around and went back to 50' to swim along the reef where fun stuff was.

Its all nice and greenish tho?
Id go that deep again if i know theres something down there I wanna see, but unless I know what im looking for, I have no reason to..

 

[Vie]

Last trip to South China Sea, we were regularly diving past 164' but mostly averaging around 148' or less. All the deeper dives were on HMS Repulse to look at the guns; Seven Skies wreck was already very interesting around the 130' range so we took it easy.

Edit: having just read some of the older posts, I just wanted to say that I did the dives described above in AL80 doubles (21/35) and carried an AL80 stage (21/35) and AL40 deco cylinder (EAN50).