I can't hear alarms. The only way I know mine is going off is if I look up and see everybody looking at me. I DO like vibration alarms.I suppose computer alarms might help too, but I would rather not hope I hear something when excited and buzzed.
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I can't hear alarms. The only way I know mine is going off is if I look up and see everybody looking at me. I DO like vibration alarms.I suppose computer alarms might help too, but I would rather not hope I hear something when excited and buzzed.
I misunderstood... I thought you were saying that this LOB would penalize you for deco. You were just making a blanket statement about most LOB's.I have no idea who that operator was or what their procedures were. They were sloppy/dangerous about mix and depth; they could also be sloppy about going into deco. We do not know.
My point is that suggesting you dive a lighter nitrox is good, but suggesting you go into deco is probably not good. Just accept less NDL. Or, don't dive so deep.
Correct.I misunderstood... I thought you were saying that this LOB would penalize you for deco. You were just making a blanket statement about most LOB's.
I have too... not proud of it.We have all done "trust me dives" without thinking for ourselves at one point.... I know I have.
I've never been on one -- other than a technical charter -- that allowed deco. One even looked at your computer when you came on board. This covers multiple brands in the Caribbean, Hawaii, Eastern and Western and Southern Pacific, Australia, Red Sea, Maldives, Philippines, Indonesia, Antarctica. I've never been on a liveaboard in the UK or the Mediterranean.@tursiops are liveaboards usually forbidding deco?
LOL. If it was like most "let's go look for hammerheads" dives there was no plan other than, "Let's go into the blue, as deep as we dare, for as long as we can, then ascend. Don't forget your safety stop."If the plan was to go to 36.6m for whatever time and then someone arbitrarily decides to go to 42m instead, I'd be more worried about having enough gas to complete the dive than oxygen toxicity. What was the plan for the 42m dive?
LOL.. I was just typing the same thing... there was no plan except for the MOD... for which was blown past... no plan at all!!LOL. If it was like most "let's go look for hammerheads" dive there was no plan other than, "Let's go into the blue, as deep as we dare, for as long as we can, then ascend. Don't forget your safety stop."
I have all my alarms silenced, audible and vibratory. My only alarms are visual, I pay attention to my computers.I can't hear alarms. The only way I know mine is going off is if I look up and see everybody looking at me. I DO like vibration alarms.