How Deep is Too Deep for You?

[Orlando Eric]

To me my diving is for fun. Everything in my life is so damn serious all the time, I keep my diving fun.

When i have to break out a calculator and plan my dive for fourty minutes the nght before it is no longer fun for me.

I know there are people who adore using gas tables and deco end dive etc. I am not one of those cats.

I keep a bottle of 36~40 and a bottle of 29~32. That usually will get me through most cattle charters with five minutes of cyphering the night before, so far I think 137 is the max with MUCH MUCH MUCH more time at 13.5' (beach dives) than at 135 feet.

 

[dive_lover88]

40 m max at the moment...

 

[Jason B]

My OW training is through PADI so if I go below 130ft, I'll die. Therefore, my limit is 130ft.

 

[Lead_carrier]

Past the bottom

 

[TheRedHead]

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 can handle double AL 80s and 1 stage, but large steel doubles and 2 stages is going to require a personal trainer.

I talked to a guy on a dive trip who experienced the deep air wah, wah, wah. It is my understanding that it has been reported by several independent sources. I'm a bit sceptical about talking crabs, though.

 

[Debraw]

131 feet is to deep for me at this time. Will look into a deep tec course this winter and maybe see what 165 looks like.

 

[in_cavediver]

What's your personal limit on depth? We need a lively debate to break in the new puppy.

For me, on Air is around 150' or so. Past that, I want mix and am comfortable going to 225' or so as of now. In the last month or so had to turn down some great wreck diving in Lake Huron because all the wrecks were 180'-210' and I had a two days timeframe and logistically couldn't get mix. (The other divers did the dives on air)

Mike

 

[Doubles]

I'm a bit sceptical about talking crabs, though.

What about Pink Elephants???

Seriously though I do not doubt the wha wha sound. I wonder if that is a possible alarm for a pending 02 hit. Ringing of the ears - wah wah sound....

Personally, I hope to never experience either sensation

 

[amascuba]

I'm not a fan of deep air, but I don't currently have training with helium based mixes. There are two locations that I will dive within the next few years that are deep, but only supply air for back gas and 50%-O2 for decompression. For these dives I will dive to 150-180 fsw. That would be my absolute maximum on air and I wouldn't do that for just any dive. I wouldn't do any dive where my PPO2 would be beyond 1.4 ATA and at 180 fsw my PPO2 would be 1.36 ATA. Beyond that my main concern is the narcotic effects.

Recreationally my deepest dive that I would dive on air and 32% is 100 feet.

 

[creamofwheat]

I am pretty comfortable at 120', but feel slightly uneasy at 130'. I have only hit 130 twice in my life. I need more training before I feel comfortable at deeper dethps.