Spiegel Grove uprighted by Hurricane Dennis !!??

[StSomewhere]

imagine this.. 21% Nitrox..

Friends don't let friends dive air.

 

[TCDiver1]

Friends don't let friends dive air.

Really makes one wonder how any of us survived, pre Nitrox & Trimix?

 

[H2Andy]

Really makes one wonder how any of us survived, pre Nitrox & Trimix?

many people didn't...

i guess you were ok if you didn't go deep on air (say, maybe, 150 feet max?)

 

[TCDiver1]

many people didn't...

i guess you were ok if you didn't go deep on air (say, maybe, 150 feet max?)

Really, most did/do and much deeper than 150'. Not that i would advocate that today, with the choices we have now.

 

[H2Andy]

wow... shows my utter newbiness, but i'd be scared to go any deeper than
that on air

 

[mike_s]

And why would we want to play in the sand when there’s such a nice ship to play on nearby?

I wondered the same thing on my last dive on the Spiegel Grove.

One of the guys we were diving with was down playing in the sand.
I asked him after the dive if he was down there making sand castles?

He was the first one off the boat and apparantly went all the way
down, straight to the sand. After we got down, he finally came
up so we could dive the rest of the wreck.

-mike

 

[AquaHump]

Really, most did/do and much deeper than 150'. Not that i would advocate that today, with the choices we have now.

I think trimix is only about 10 years old or less in common use.

 

[Gary D.]

Friends don't let friends dive air.

Most of the time around me it, "Friends don't let friends dive Nitrox over 21%".

Gary D.

 

[Florabama]

I was just in my LDS today, and the owner said the SG was now upright due to Dennis. While I don't know if this is true, I can say that hurricanes we have had around here (Florida Panhandle) have rolled wrecks in more than 130 fsw.

Hurricane Opal in 1995, rolled the Antares -- a newly sunk 400 ft long freighter in 130 fsw -- and unfortunately broke it into three pieces.

 

[hermosadive]

I was just in my LDS today, and the owner said the SG was now upright due to Dennis.

Crack me up. Somehow you found this tread, but apparently never read any of it. Thanks again, but this was confirmed 11 pages of posts-ago.