How deep have you gone and why ?

[Mako Mark]

great photos MV I love that blue colour.

100m, deepest cave dive.

 

[holdingmybreath]

deeper than my deepest scuba dive by 48' while holding my breath

 

[freediver]

deeper than my deepest scuba dive by 48' while holding my breath

Nice!

 

[Curt Bowen]

Hey Curt, quick question for you. HOw deep have you taken a camera or video? Which ones?
Would be interesting to know how they react to deep depths.

Mike

I have shot some just below 300 feet.

It was an N90 in an aquatica housing, 18mm lense and a Nikon SB 104.

Housing and strobe are rated to 330'

P.S. I have your layout done and waiting on the editor for the text.

I'll e-mail the layout to you

 

[GDI]

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

 

[padiscubapro]

Were you diving OC or were you on your rebreather?

For most of the dive I was on a rebreather, with the 6m stop on OC Oxygen and the 21m stop on OC 50%

 

[Tavi]

204' on air, to see the edge of the continental shelf.
I had a breif oh S*** moment at depth, I ascended about 30' and was fine. One of the other divers ran short on air and had to share air for deco, too narced to watch his SPG I guess, I wasn't his buddy.

This was the dive that helped me decide to get more gear and training.

Last Saturday I completed my NAUI Technical Diver Course (Technical Nitrox, Decompression Techniques, and Helitrox). Some of the wrecks we dived for training were The Boland in Lake Erie, The A.E. Vickery, The Oconto, and the Jodery in the St Lawrence Seaway.

I love the deeper wrecks, I'm somewhat obsessed with them Thank God I live near the Great Lakes!!

I'm looking forward to more practice, and then Trimix early next spring!!

 

[eponym]

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.

Almost two years after OW, my first warm-water diving was in the Seychelles. Toward the end of two weeks cruising and diving, the first mate and I did a wall dive off Astove. The dive profile shows a constant slow descent for ten minutes, down to 133 feet. At that point my dive computer was giving me only two more minutes before declaring this a deco dive. The rest of the profile shows a gradual meandering ascent for another thirty-six minutes (including safety stop). This was on a single steel 80 with air. My deepest dive at home had been 100 feet, into temperatures below 40 and total darkness even at midday.

No, I can't justify the depth, nor doing it on air, and there was nothing to see at that level that wasn't also higher up. I guess I just had to get five atmospheres absolute under my belt before I could stop being a numbers wh0re. Nag if you must, call me fatally narked, it's all true, I already know that.

But it was such a pefect, languid, meditative experience that the memory of it keeps me eager to dive, even in the chilled algal soup of home.

Fin on down,
Bryan

 

[Stone]

My wife and I dive a lot at 135 fsw. Our objective is to spearfish and hunt lobster.

The deeper wrecks (artificial reefs) are not frequented by dive charters, and many smaller recreational fishing boats don't usually venture that far from shore (25 mi). The inshore wrecks and reefs get hit pretty hard, so we have to go offshore to find the "big ones".

 

[Diver0001]

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).

I've made a lot of dives in the 30-40 metre range. I've been a lot deeper than that only once and it was to save another diver who was in very big poo-poo.

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