In local waters, I seem to be pretty reproducibly and very unpleasantly narced at about 100 feet, so that's my limit until or unless other gases get involved.
How Deep is Too Deep for You?
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Guba
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With my current equipment and skill level, I'll hold at 120. Diving isn't about pressing limits for me, so there is little to draw me deeper. Instead, I enjoy the longer dive times and shorter decos that recreational dive limits provide. That could change in the future, but for now I'm fine with my limitations.
Don't really have a limit. Of course, my deepest so far has been 90 feet, but thats because the quarry here doesn't go much deeper...
PaulSmithTek
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I have dove to 275' Surface supplied mixed gas with a super lite 27. I would do deeper commercially but for recreation I am not sure 200' with proper training.
TheRedHead:What's your personal limit on depth? We need a lively debate to break in the new puppy.
Oh I think you were way to conservative on the topic to break in the new servers etc.
150 fsw on air is my max at the moment. And of course that could become shallower on the day of the dive depending on how I felt overall that day.
When I get Trimix trained, certified and more experience I would certainly entertain the idea of 200-225fsw. I would also need to loose a few of the "geezer pounds" I have been accumulating prior to going deeper than 150fsw.
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jmps
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I never had any thought of ever going very deep until I made my first Lake Michigan wreck dive this last weekend. Prior to that I saw myself as a warm water diver and saw little reason to go deep. Now I understand what the draw is around here. 
I don't see myself going deeper than rec limits (130) because of fitness, cost and training time (two girls approaching college). The deepest I have gone is 108.
I don't see myself going deeper than rec limits (130) because of fitness, cost and training time (two girls approaching college). The deepest I have gone is 108.
*Floater*
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TheRedHead:What's your personal limit on depth? We need a lively debate to break in the new puppy.
Currently I have no desire to go beyond 300', though I've only been to 200'. But if there was a great site below 300' - maybe an unexplored wreck or cave, then perhaps I would be tempted. It's just that I don't see that happening unless I were to seek it, and as a vacation diver I probably won't run across sites beyond 300'.
OP
Gilless:
No wah, wah, wah dives?
Going deeper than 200 feet would require larger doubles and 2 stage bottles. There is nothing that has captivated me to the point of hauling around that much gear.
sasscuba
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Did 220 fsw on air once and got pretty narked so I would say 220 is it. Have not been below 150 since then.
TheRedHead:No wah, wah, wah dives?
Going deeper than 200 feet would require larger doubles and 2 stage bottles. There is nothing that has captivated me to the point of hauling around that much gear.
lol - no wah wah dives.
I already lug doubles and stages so 200 wouldnt be a stretch from the equipment perspective.
And you know the more I think about that story I read, the more I wonder if it shouldnt have started with "once upon a time"???
I know Hal Watts goes to somewhere around 300 on air, but 350 on air in a single aluminum 80 - PP02 of 2.12 now thats 02 tolerance to the max....
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