Quiz - Recreational Dive Planner™ - Max Time

[Pedro Burrito]

Bonjour de la belle Suisse!

From the Recreational Dive Planner section of the PADI Dive Theory Exam. You will need your RDP™ to answer this question. You will get different results if you use metric or imperial!

A diver exits the water after a dive to 21m/70ft for 31 minutes. The diver reenters the water 49 minutes later for another dive to 21m/70ft - what is the maximum allowable time he/she may spend at this depth?

a. Metric 37 minutes - Imperial 40 minutes

b. Metric 19 minutes - Imperial 24 minutes

c. Metric 18 minutes - Imperial 16 minutes

d. Metric 21 minutes - Imperial 22 minutes


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[Angelo Farina]

I did not answer, because in the procedures I always followed, it is forbidden to dive again before a surface interval of at least one hour!

 

[loosenit2]

19 mins but only after a diver has ensured that his tank was filled and inspected by someone that has been employed for over 90 days and signed a statement acknowledging that the air in his tank is in fact dangerous.

 

[Vitesse2l]

Bsac 88 tables say it's not a 'no stop' dive. Go over an hour for the SI and that changes.

 

[Mike1967]

19 mins but only after a diver has ensured that his tank was filled and inspected by someone that has been employed for over 90 days and signed a statement acknowledging that the air in his tank is in fact dangerous.

 

[Edward3c]

Bsac 88 tables say it's not a 'no stop' dive. Go over an hour for the SI and that changes.

Be wary of using BSAC 88 Tables against others. The definition of bottom time is fundamentally different; PADI’s is dependent on whether a safety stop is required or not.

That said the exam question gives zero minutes for a non-mandatory stop dive; a 18 minute dive would incur a 21 minute stop at 6m, with BSAC 88 Tables,

 

[Vitesse2l]

I can see it's not clever to mix tables then. Not that anyone would (would they?).

Good thing we've moved on to computers.

 

[ToneNQ]

I did not answer, because in the procedures I always followed, it is forbidden to dive again before a surface interval of at least one hour!

The question is the PADI tables though; rather than what is sensible based on your training.

 

[Edward3c]

I can see it's not clever to mix tables then. Not that anyone would (would they?).

Good thing we've moved on to computers.

Noone would use different computers (or remove the battery to reset) on each dive, would they?

 

[Mike1967]

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