honestly, the 130' recreational limit is pretty much a prehistoric legacy figure that was pretty much pulled out of someone's azz long ago, an arbitrary number that some of us don't treat with religious fevor. The key word is 'routine'. Fortunately, there are dive ops that are capable of making reasonable judgement calls about risks/observed diver competency. I was on a liveaboard to the Bahamas a few years ago where a DM took a guy who was celebrating his 68th birthday by honoring his request to do an AL80 air 'bounce' dive to 168' ft deep...'cause he was turning 68 that day......last August in Cozumel, I did some deep/solo dives once the dive op was OK with my skills...the DM would cruise the shallow tops of walls hunting lionfish, and I'd be down deep, doin' my slow cruisin...and we'd check on each other periodically. I was actually encouraged to go to 150' on one wall dive to view a preserved fragment of 'old growth forest' that had survived the devastation of Wilma in 2005. DM stayed well above, I went to 150', as we both blew along in a modest current, paralleling each other. I'm comfortable I have a handle on what I can handle, and appreciate it when the DM isn't a nanny hanging like a leech off my leg. So if you demonstrate you actually do have a clue, sometimes you can be cut a fair amount of slack and not treated like a pod person who's installed his reg backwards on his tank!