Stages: 1/2+200 or 1/3rds

[Dive-aholic]

I might have to teach you a PADI sarcastic diver specialty course, Rob. Here's proof I'm more open minded than you might think...altho if you make me dive a sm rig, expect lots of pissing and moaning!

I got the sarcasm. I was coming right back at ya! I guess I should have used more emoticons!!!

 

[Dive-aholic]

they're not all huge caves. they just look huge to 'you people'

If I can keep my knees bent, it's a huge cave!!

 

[PfcAJ]

We're doing a single stage scoot in a week or two, why? And ya, I have done multi stage scooter diving in deeper cave, and we didn't touch backgas and placed safeties. If I have the right equipment, the right team, and the right conditions, I don't mind diving deep on OC. This dive will take is somewhere we've swam before, know the gas it takes to get out, and allows us some good training time.

A high flow, shallow cave is simply different than a 200+ no flowing cave. You can't dillydally in there, deco racks up too fast and breathing gas goes too quickly. The stuff I'm staying is designed to minimize the dillydally factor. All of this so called 'DIR' stuff is designed to reduce things that slow you down and increase efficiency.

To answer your question, if you are swimming and return to your stage bottles with an oog buddy, OBVIOUSLY you have to get them on a stage. Its either that or....drown? Swimming with stages is no the same as scooting with stages.

 

[ucfdiver]

Are you guys multi-stage scootering Eagle's on OC?

To be honest, I'm not. When the girl who's "mentoring" me invites me, I'll go. Until then, I'll stick to less aggressive dives. That's one nice thing about being fairly local, you can get in with a diver whom you trust and progress along as the two of you feel comfortable.

 

[ucfdiver]

I got the sarcasm. I was coming right back at ya! I guess I should have used more emoticons!!!

Not using smileys was pretty darn rude if you ask me. You should take me on a guided scooter dive at JB to apologize.

 

[Dive-aholic]

Do you trust me to do that...

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Strokes implode at the second breakdown!

 

[Dive-aholic]

Damn! That's why it's always hazy there!!!

 

[rjack321]

To be honest, I'm not. When the girl who's "mentoring" me invites me, I'll go. Until then, I'll stick to less aggressive dives. That's one nice thing about being fairly local, you can get in with a diver whom you trust and progress along as the two of you feel comfortable.

Me neither.

 

[rjack321]

We're doing a single stage scoot in a week or two, why? And ya, I have done multi stage scooter diving in deeper cave, and we didn't touch backgas and placed safeties. If I have the right equipment, the right team, and the right conditions, I don't mind diving deep on OC. This dive will take is somewhere we've swam before, know the gas it takes to get out, and allows us some good training time.

A high flow, shallow cave is simply different than a 200+ no flowing cave. You can't dillydally in there, deco racks up too fast and breathing gas goes too quickly. The stuff I'm staying is designed to minimize the dillydally factor. All of this so called 'DIR' stuff is designed to reduce things that slow you down and increase efficiency.

To answer your question, if you are swimming and return to your stage bottles with an oog buddy, OBVIOUSLY you have to get them on a stage. Its either that or....drown? Swimming with stages is no the same as scooting with stages.

Pfft you might want to avoid taking a 250ft scooter mandatory example, try to reverse engineer it to every stage-OOG circumstance, then moan about what is and isn't obvious.

To be honest, I'm not. When the girl who's "mentoring" me invites me, I'll go. Until then, I'll stick to less aggressive dives. That's one nice thing about being fairly local, you can get in with a diver whom you trust and progress along as the two of you feel comfortable.

Me neither.