Low on air in deco

[spearfisherman55]

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[Rick Murchison]

Oh boy...
PPPPPPP!
Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
Do not run low on air.
If your diving style ever even has any doubt at all that you might have less air than you need, that should cause the little alarm bells to go off in your head. Change the way you dive. Before the next dive.
Heed all the answers you already got over on TDS.
Or come on up to Montgomery and take my Deep diving course.
Your question may as well read "What do I do when I get between a rock and a hard place?" and the answer is the same... "Don't go there in the first place."
Rick

 

[detroit diver]

Well, either this is a complete troll, or you didn't like the answers you got on TDS.

1. We don't do 140 on air.
2. We plan our gas so that you don't go low on GAS.
3. Ever hear of Rock Bottom?
etc, etc, etc.

You don't have enough dive experience to do 140ft dives, let alone deco dives. 13 dives past OW? Go get some experience.

edit: didn't see Rick's post. What he said!!

If I go into deco, and I am low on air what is the best way to complete the deco faster? My max depth is 140' right now, I am diving with just compressed air right now.

 

[cyklon_300]

Either your OW instructor was completely incompetent or you were a thoroughly inattentive student. You have missed every salient point of that class.

Ask for a refresher course.

 

[spearfisherman55]

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[spearfisherman55]

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[lamont]

I will try to take the PADI AOW course this summer with the same instructor that gave me my OW cert. I will try to stay above 130' now, until I get more dives in.

you need to stay above 60'.

you don't have the experience or the knowledge to be at 100 feet right now, much less 130.

if you went OOA on a dive that nothing went wrong on, what is going to happen to you if you have an uncontrollable free-flow, or blow an o-ring or something bad does go wrong?

and actually, i think you should have as much gas as you can carry. buy the biggest tanks that you can find, double them up if you can stand it, get an AL40 or AL30 pony bottle, whatever you have to do. you are gonna need it.

 

[spearfisherman55]

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[Diver0001]

If I go into deco, and I am low on air what is the best way to complete the deco faster? My max depth is 140' right now, I am diving with just compressed air right now.

You're trolling. Learn to dive first.

When you learn deco diving you'll learn how to avoid getting in to th scenario you're talking about.

R..

 

[Hyper-limits]

If I go into deco, and I am low on air what is the best way to complete the deco faster? My max depth is 140' right now, I am diving with just compressed air right now.

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