232 feet cause that's where stuff was
Don't go deep just to do it. Silly and dangerous.
Don't go deep just to do it. Silly and dangerous.
How deep have you gone and why ?
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So far I hit 118fsw on the Papoose in NC. My PST E-7 100's were great allowing me to dive the rule of thirds. 31 minute dive on 30% with a 1000 psi left.
Daryl Morse
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What was the run time? Was this OC? Tell us more.Curt Bowen:
BTW, my deepest dive was my AOW deep dive, which was to 95 fsw. Most of my dives since then have been to 75-85 fsw, because that's where the stuff is to look at. At some point, I'll go deeper, but not for no reason.
RichLockyer
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LOL! I don't think Curt owns any OC gear except the stuff decorating his shop wallsDaryl Morse:
I'm going to put myself up here to be shot down!... a long while back when I was a) younger and more importantly b) very very stupid... I agreed to do a dive with an instructor and a dm with the three of us going down to 60m. We were all on either single 12 or 15's. If anything had happened, ie. free flow, we could have gotten ourselves into deep sh*t.
Suffice to say it's certainly something I have no intention of repeating, ever, without the necessary deco training and the required redundancy. It's also something I would not recommend to anyone else to do.
Suffice to say it's certainly something I have no intention of repeating, ever, without the necessary deco training and the required redundancy. It's also something I would not recommend to anyone else to do.
Curt Bowen
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Daryl Morse:
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.
the dives I have done range from 30' to 100' .on vacation in the fla caverns the bottoms are around 90' to 100' ,did a wreck of at 70'. here at home lake diveing we dive the old dam site ,you drop over the wall and the bottom when ajusted for alt=100' last weekend vis was 10' but cool just the same .well get more training and go deeper,the cool wrecks and caves just seem to be deep ,even the specigel grove in fla is 130' to bottom ,why do they put such lovely wrecks in so deep of water ? limits your bottom time unless you do deco dive.
ShakaZulu
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Most of my dives are around 100ft-110ft. Max depth, 120ft - following a Bat Ray into the Abyss...............
Wijbrandus
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Nearly all of my dives are in the 40 - 70 range. I've never been past 70, and have done a few under 40. I am a certified "advanced" diver, but still a rookie, and as such I have no interest in pushing my limits until I've gathered quite a bit more experience.
The only reason I have to go deeper is for wrecks. But there are still so many in the shallow range to see that it will be quite a while before I feel the desire to go deeper.
My ultimate goal is to someday go down and touch the "U-Who", but I realize that is many, many dives in my future.
The only reason I have to go deeper is for wrecks. But there are still so many in the shallow range to see that it will be quite a while before I feel the desire to go deeper.
My ultimate goal is to someday go down and touch the "U-Who", but I realize that is many, many dives in my future.
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scubapro50:
I would really like to see the Titanic. Problem is that it lies at over 13,000 ft depth.
You have to draw the line somewhere.
A good place to draw the line is 50 ft for air diving, if you have access to nitrox. If not, then 100 ft, if you are only planning one or two dives today.
Nitrox is a really good gas mix to 100 ft with EAN32, although you could push it to 150 ft with EAN25, if you have the right training. Any diving over 100 ft is going to be either pushing the NDL limits, and therefore unwise, or else involving decompression, which requires special training and redundant gear.
Narcosis is normally noticable at 110 ft, although the various agencies have set 130 ft as their narcosis limits for air or EANx.
So how deep can you go? Well, you cannot go to 13,000 ft. And you should not go deeper than about 100 ft. on air or nitrox. If you want to go deeper than 100 ft, then get the training first.
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