Max Depth BEYOND Certification Limit.

[ianr33]

A maximum depth thread with a difference.

What is the furthest you have ever dived beyond your certification limit?

I once did a dive that was 15 feet deeper than my C-card "allowed"

I suspect that that is not a record

 

[Zeeman]

It's not really a limit.. More of a "guideline" or "suggestion".

z..

 

[do it easy]

I would caution divers to consider the risk when diving beyond their training and experience! What you don't know can hurt you.

There is a time and place for stretching your limits, but it's a bad time and place to find out you stretched too far.

 

[almitywife]

It's not really a limit.. More of a "guideline" or "suggestion".

z..

no Zee.. it is what you are trained for

no muffins for you young man!

 

[drbill]

The depth limits set by your certification should be considered as the maximum "safe" depth based on your training/experience. I am concerned by the number of divers who are not properly equipped, trained or experienced who exceed the 60, 100 or 130 ft depth limits without a full understanding of the safety issues, etc. I once heard a newly certified BOW diver talk about diving to 150+ ft solo with no redundancy. I told him (somewhat politely) that he was an idiot and a good candidate for a future Darwin Award.

Although I am formally certified to a depth of "only" 130 ft, I have five decades of diving experience and the appropriate equipment to take me to depths beyond that. I also know the risks reasonably well.

 

[jullian_pdx]

Stay within your training limits. If you want to go deeper train more....

Otherwise... Do you feel lucky today?

 

[Kingpatzer]

Training limits also should take into consideration the conditions you learned under.

I learned to dive in a mud hole. 40' in 48 degree water with 6" vis with continual silt-outs from the class walking on the bottom it was a different world than at 80' in 100' vis. in 80 degree water.

 

[evil_xander]

Being only OWD, my limit should be at 18m. Deepest I've gone is 47m. I reckon I'm already dead.

 

[-hh]

My first C-Card is old enough such that at the time, there was no "depth limit".

In class, we had quizzes for staged decompression and repetitive dive profiles from the USN Tables for depths of 180fsw. This wasn't just theoretical, but were based on what would be needed to dive "Texas Tower #4", which was a well-known local deep dive off of NJ at the time (I understand that it has since collapsed).


...so based on the above, what "depth" do you want so say that my first C-Card is supposedly good for? Was it 60fsw, 180fsw, or somewhere in between?


-hh

 

[Lead_carrier]

There are no "limits", only recommendations and common sense. Want to do a Deep Diving Specialty. I can take you to 61 feet. That meets the requirements, not the common sense, for deep diving.

I have yet to find the scuba cop checking c cards on the way down.