How Deep is Too Deep for You?

[Doubles]

What about the "boat is pitching and you've got to get up the ladder in all your gear (including stages)" argument, which I've heard many times? You guys have a real advantage because just about any joe-schmoe can get up a ladder in doubles without much effort.

Sometimes you crawl out....climbing is over rated in certain situations

 

[Bigcape]

To hear my girlfriend tell it, not deep enough for long enough..........................


I hope she's talking about diving

 

[lamont]

Been there..done it...got the pizza stained t-shirt.

COKE ALERT!!!!

 

[TheRedHead]

Sometimes you crawl out....climbing is over rated in certain situations

I can do crawling.

But all the gear is an obstacle to a lot of women, so they go on a liveaboard and do these dives on air with an AL 80. You know it is true.

 

[Doubles]

I can do crawling.

But all the gear is an obstacle to a lot of women, so they go on a liveaboard and do these dives on air with an AL 80. You know it is true.

As you mentioned in an earlier post, more folks do this than will admit it, and it is a big safety issue. Wrong grear wrong dive, lack of training.....

I watched a gal up at 40 fathom grotto going through the bootcamp, she was doing fine with the steel doubles and 2 stages...you would have been proud

 

[MikeFerrara]

Climbing a ladder, especially in rough water, wearing decompression tanks isn't all that smart...and stop calling them stage bottles! LOL they may look the same but they are used very very differently.

In calm water, we sometimes hand them up but in rough water, we clip them to a line that's pulled up later...the same with getting in only backwards.

 

[TheRedHead]

All my instructors have called deco bottles, "stages." All of them have a different point of view about everything and I've had my gear changed 3 times.

 

[Doubles]

Climbing a ladder, especially in rough water, wearing decompression tanks isn't all that smart...and stop calling them stage bottles! LOL they may look the same but they are used very very differently.

In calm water, we sometimes hand them up but in rough water, we clip them to a line that's pulled up later...the same with getting in only backwards.

Oh I love Nomenlcature Opportunities

Staged Decompression so one could equate them to Stage bottles quite easily....

Nomenclature is a bigger word than refrigerator....:lol:

 

[JeffG]

All my instructors have called deco bottles, "stages."

Okey dokey then.

 

[amascuba]

All my instructors have called deco bottles, "stages." All of them have a different point of view about everything and I've had my gear changed 3 times.

I'm stealing this from direxplorers.com from a post by Peter Steinhoff. Enjoy.

Stages or stage bottles are bottles used to extend the actual dive.
Almost exlusively these are aluminum 80s or CE variant.

Deco bottles are used to do the decompression part of the dive.
They contain different mixes and are usually not breathable at depth. For ocean diving aluminum 40s or 7 liters are the most common bottles.

Safeties are stage bottles that you bring along or have already cached in advance as reserve gas. They are only intended for emergencies.

Drive bottles are stages you hook up to a rebreather - to "drive" the RB. They have an extra hose with a "cheater" on. It that is a quick disconnect that you plug in to a switch block that connects to the RB.