OP
While I was wanting to breathe really badly I was not yet severely stressed for air. In hind sight, I should have just expedited direct to surface rather than trying to get a safety pause. In fact, I will agree that might have been quite stupid. Chamber time in Cozumel and two deeper dives earlier was on my mind. The likelihood of a bends hit for the day's dives was much lower, probably near zero, than other possible calamities. I should have gone direct to surface.
I am a free diver or once was, I train for breath holding. I am comfortable in the water and an experienced diver. I was not on the verge of panic or even close, as I said earlier, I was mostly annoyed and especially so since this regulator had about 50 dives on it and was in my universe essentially new. Turns out there was no defect with the regulator, it just had an O-ring stuck in it where an O-ring did not belong.
What I was really trying to do or wanted to do was to rejoin my DM/group so as not to get fussed at since he had admonished us all, looking at me in particular
, to please surface all together. I also futzed around with trying to shoot my dsmb, but with no air I could not get it to inflate and what little I had in my lungs I was jealous of and so did not wish to give it to my dsmb.
All of these things are good points for discussion and why I decided to post the thread hopefully for benefit of others when strange things happen.
I am a free diver or once was, I train for breath holding. I am comfortable in the water and an experienced diver. I was not on the verge of panic or even close, as I said earlier, I was mostly annoyed and especially so since this regulator had about 50 dives on it and was in my universe essentially new. Turns out there was no defect with the regulator, it just had an O-ring stuck in it where an O-ring did not belong.
What I was really trying to do or wanted to do was to rejoin my DM/group so as not to get fussed at since he had admonished us all, looking at me in particular
, to please surface all together. I also futzed around with trying to shoot my dsmb, but with no air I could not get it to inflate and what little I had in my lungs I was jealous of and so did not wish to give it to my dsmb.All of these things are good points for discussion and why I decided to post the thread hopefully for benefit of others when strange things happen.
