JustSurfaceInterval
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I missed the bit where it said it was tech diving, @iliketopetsharks. Now i get it.
Not commenting @gamon 's attitude...
Not commenting @gamon 's attitude...
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one of the two cabins that neighbor the engine room,
That would be cabins 1&2. Or just book one on the upper deckDo you remember the cabin numbers or names? I'll tell them I don't want to be in these two cabins.
Thank you very much for the information. Because of you, this boat is now at the top of my list.
I dived only with two of their boats. Blue does provide ENOS. Pearl does not.I'm researching them right now for an Sept/Oct trip. Any idea if all of the fleet provides ENOS?
Thank you. Yes, they got back to me right away and confirmed Blue Pearl does not provide ENOS.I dived only with two of their boats. Blue does provide ENOS. Pearl does not.
You may want to reach out to them if you chose another boat of their fleet. I asked them countless questions before diving with them; their customer service was always very responsive to all my queries.
Regardless of boat policies, doing 4 dives per day for multiple days in a row is a little sketchy from a DCS perspective. The numbers on your dive computer might look fine but none of our deco models have ever been experimentally validated for that level of repetitive diving. Need a little more surface interval for the residual bubbles to resolve (unless you're staying really shallow).Another problem with for example Agressor is that they write: approx 18 dives. So this means it can be 16 or it can be 20. But maybe max 3 dives a day? What are you doing all that other hours on that boat?
Offer 4 dives a day for the same price and the prices are getting a little bit better. And tell how much dives you really get. Not approximately.
As you say, it has not been validated--we just don't know. But here is some information I learned in the past from a presentation at our dive shop from a DAN representative about 15 years ago. What follows is a bit fuzzy in the details because of memory, but the big idea is accurate.Regardless of boat policies, doing 4 dives per day for multiple days in a row is a little sketchy from a DCS perspective. The numbers on your dive computer might look fine but none of our deco models have ever been experimentally validated for that level of repetitive diving.
Blue Planet Liveaboards, which operates four boats: Blue, Blue Pearl, Blue Storm, and Blue Seas.
And it seems that if you are a DM or instructor and work in divingbusiness on a 6 day working day that the biggest chance of getting bent is after your day off. So then it is again the same as the first day.As you say, it has not been validated--we just don't know. But here is some information I learned in the past from a presentation at our dive shop from a DAN representative about 15 years ago. What follows is a bit fuzzy in the details because of memory, but the big idea is accurate.
IIRC, with divers on multiple day trips, 80% of the DCS cases happened on the first day. Of those, 80% happened on the first dive.
We in ski country know an old joke in which someone says 100% of the serious ski accidents happened on the last run of the day, the joke being that if it was a serious accident, the skier did not ski again. Similarly, people who get DCS the first day do not go on the dive the second day, usually. So that is obviously a factor in this, but I recall doing the statistics and deciding that the numbers we were given really were statistically significant.
So a least those numbers do not support the idea that multiple day diving increases DCS risk--just the opposite. We had a SB discussion about it around then, and IIRC correctly, some of the old timers argued that multiple diving on multiple days built something of an immunity. Who knows?