How you ID your Deco tanks

[stuartv]

I would say you needed to spend time sorting out your weighting in a drysuit and twins in the shallows before attempting a deco dive. You were trying to run before you could walk.

I would say you don't know the full story. And (again) that I didn't post that for a critique.

 

[Diving Dubai]

My post was not a solicitation of a critique. It was to give an example where "getting stable" before a gas switch isn't always that easy.

You've been given good advice by @PfcAJ , and @rivers - both who have lots of experience - rather than being defensive, I'd listen. We all make mistakes and we learn from them. They were both spot on with their analysis. Sort out your buoyancy and your mask before gas switch. As a learning example for others, you did this the wrong way round.

Where would you have been without the crutch of an anchor line, or with you mask leaking you'd have lost grip on it? Can you now carry our a mid water stop with a gas switch in trim without an anchor line?

 

[rivers]

I would say you don't know the full story. And (again) that I didn't post that for a critique.

I may not know the full story, but the crux of it is, you did not have your sh*t together.

 

[stuartv]

I may not know the full story, but the crux of it is, you did not have your sh*t together.

Indeed! Awareness reflected in my opening by stating that I was outing myself. The salient point being that one can get in the water BELIEVING that one has one's **** together, then find out when it's rather too late that you didn't. And then, even just having one cylinder of deco gas and one gas switch to do can still be challenging.

 

[PfcAJ]

Indeed! Awareness reflected in my opening by stating that I was outing myself. The salient point being that one can get in the water BELIEVING that one has one's **** together, then find out when it's rather too late that you didn't. And then, even just having one cylinder of deco gas and one gas switch to do can still be challenging.

I get your point. People make mistakes.

Does anyone get in the water thinking their **** is not together?

 

[KevinNM]

People doing training dives. Hopefully you train on the stuff you don't do well and not the stuff you can do like a pro. And also not on the stuff you have no business trying to work on given your current level of skill, training and experience.