How Deep is Too Deep for You?

[Penguinboy]

First post on the board

For me, I trained PADI OW so 12m/50ft (ish) was the limit, but i just turned 15 so i'm no longer a Junior OW and the limit is 18m for me now - big new prospects!

Went to 18m on a recent dive for the first time, and for me as a relative amateur it felt no different, looked no different and i used up the air at the same rate, so i probably feel comfortable down to 20m now. Makes sense - thats the depth where my cheap Underwater Camera breaks!

 

[jeckyll]

An article, "I heard the Wah Wah"

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

Holy crapola! Scary stuff...:shakehead

 

[TheRedHead]

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

Interesting....did everyone hear the wah, wah, wah?

 

[Fort Collins Bob]

The "wah wah's" are what we used to hear just before blacking out

Yep ...

and Joe Odom is a GREAT diver.

B

 

[dumpsterDiver]

I did the same thing with nitrous.. It sounds like a train or trucks roaring by. This was usually accompanied by a slow fall to the floor, since there was no way to continue standing after a few good hits.

 

[MikeFerrara]

I did the same thing with nitrous.. It sounds like a train or trucks roaring by. This was usually accompanied by a slow fall to the floor, since there was no way to continue standing after a few good hits.

I used to work in a lab that had a buch of nitrous laying around that some guys used to breath. After one of them convulsed and was hauled off in a ambulance they locked it up so the burnouts couldn't get to it. LOL

 

[MikeFerrara]

How deep? I often stop just shy of the bottom. Last week I had to go all the way to the bottom because vis was nil and I wanted to see if I was on the road bed or not so I touched it with a finger to see if it was gravel. I was at about 26 ft.

A couple of weeks before I did a touchy feely sort of no vis dive but had trouble getting below about 7 ft. Not because I was narced or anything but because I would have needed a shovel to get deeper in that river.

All this talk about depth...Red I'm surprised at you.

 

[TheRedHead]

All this talk about depth...Red I'm surprised at you.

It was getting dull around here, Mike.

We were talking about the wah, wah story in the chatroom when it died. I ran into a guy not too long ago who claimed he's heard the wah, wah. I googled it and the old AquaCorp articles popped up.

Disclaimer: I don't condone or encourage deep air diving or diving below recreational limits without the proper training.

Having said that, I think a frank discussion about narcosis is interesting.

 

[fire_diver]

All this talk about depth...Red I'm surprised at you.

in best Monty Python voice...

She's a WITCH!!! Burn her!!!
She turned me into a newt.

 

[fire_diver]

It was getting dull around here, Mike.
Having said that, I think a frank discussion about narcosis is interesting.

BURN HER!!!!