Stoo
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When I was much younger and much stupider... or should I say, less well-informed... I used to do the odd dive like this. In 38F water. In a wetsuit. When my regulator froze up at 170' on a single aluminum 72, my 13 cf pony suddenly seemed woefully inadequate. I made it up, but vowed that that was the last time I'd do anything like that.
Almost all of my diving is solo. Almost all of it is in the 110' - 170' range.
All things considered, I've seen dives that were dumber than this one, probably even done a few. Another time though, I think a little redundancy might be a good idea. Mind you, freeze up isn't likely in Manilla I wouldn't think, and regs really don't "fail", so as long as he was keeping an eagle eye on his air supply, it was a pretty manageable situation.
On the other hand, there is that whole narcosis thing. Up my way, lots of folks think that you need to suck mix if you're going to go past 100'. I think that that's being a overly conservative, but that's just me!
Almost all of my diving is solo. Almost all of it is in the 110' - 170' range.
All things considered, I've seen dives that were dumber than this one, probably even done a few. Another time though, I think a little redundancy might be a good idea. Mind you, freeze up isn't likely in Manilla I wouldn't think, and regs really don't "fail", so as long as he was keeping an eagle eye on his air supply, it was a pretty manageable situation.
On the other hand, there is that whole narcosis thing. Up my way, lots of folks think that you need to suck mix if you're going to go past 100'. I think that that's being a overly conservative, but that's just me!