How Deep is Too Deep for You?

[TheRedHead]

What is this "wah wah wah" referring to? Unfamiliar term.

An article, "I heard the Wah Wah"

http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/AQUAcorps/wahwah/Wah-Raimo.htm

 

[abitton]

An article, "I heard the Wah Wah"

http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/AQUAcorps/wahwah/Wah-Raimo.htm

VERY scary...

 

[Darnold9999]

Have been to 130, warm water 100+ vis - very comfortable - not a lot to see. Around here below 100 feet or so I start to get uncomfortable/anxious so that plus about 10 feet is my current bottom.

Really have not seen the need to go deeper yet. If I find something I just have to see then I will go deeper. For now lots to occupy myself at rec depths.

 

[wardric]

As deep as there is something to see or to do and as I am equipped for and have propper gaz and buddy. My deepest dives didn't have all the requirements above but this wont happen again .

 

[limeyx]

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

Air/Nitrox (any nitrox blend) 100 feet max
30/30 120
21/35 "average" of say 160 with dips to 170 allowed.
18/45 (which I am not technically supposed to be diving) 180

I wont go below 180 without further training, and I cannot really carry enough deco gas to have any bottom time down deeper anyway.

 

[TheRedHead]

My max depth is now at 170 feet with 25 minutes of BT (on air) and this was in a class with an instructor present who was diving mix. Previous to this dive, we had made progressivly deeper dives starting at 120 feet and working up to 170. In all of the dives, everyone had tasks to perform relating to the dive. At 170 feet, the most striking difference was short term memory loss. We had gone over certain signals for the dive and planned everything carefully. I had multiple copies of our deco schedule, one of which was on a wetnote stuck up my sleeve.

During the dive, I'm watching the runtime and I would note the time and then proceed with the dive such as observe a turtle. Then I would look at my runtime and 3 minutes have gone by, but it didn't seem like 3 minutes. Was I staring a turtle for 3 minutes? I don't know. I would ask for everyone's pressure, because we had set a rock bottom on which the dive would be turned if reached before time. My buddy was getting close so I made a mental note of that. Next time I checked, 500 psi was gone from his tanks and it seemed like a second to me. Then I forgot an important hand signal we had rehearsed before the dive. I pulled the wetnote out of my sleeve and pointed to the dive plan instead of giving the correct signal.

Not wah-wah wasted, but definitely impaired.

 

[wardric]

An article, "I heard the Wah Wah"

http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/AQUAcorps/wahwah/Wah-Raimo.htm

complete madness!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BarryNL]

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

Well, obviously dependent on kit - at the moment I'd set the limit at 50m - I want to get Trimix trained before going any deeper than that.

 

[Fort Collins Bob]

An article, "I heard the Wah Wah"

http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/AQUAcorps/wahwah/Wah-Raimo.htm

The Joe Odom wah wah dives continue to live ..

B

 

[Ice9]

Ahh!! Ok, I understand now. When I was younger and crazier, we used to have a large tank for nitrous oxide. We would have nitrous parties and sit around breathing it straight. The "wah wah's" are what we used to hear just before blacking out

Jeez man! This guys is nuts!!