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- I'm a Fish!
Remind me why I want to swim in circles rather than relax...
We do our decos in bluewater after these deep dives ( you are drifiting over 400 plus pretty soon much of the time) to enhance depth precision( from horizontal body swimming position it is easy to stay precisly at a given deco depth), and, your lungs are a MUCH more effective bubble filter when horizontal in the water collum, rather than vertical ( this is from Hydrostatic Lung Loading, where blood flow is much better for your lungs to function optimally at horizontal in water, than in vertical position). I have always preferred how I feel after hour long decos when I do mild swimming the whole time, versus vegetating on an anchor line...though with our currents, this was rarely ever considered...it did happen a few times in the distant past.
When I used to spearfish on the deep dives ( and sometimes kept a fish with me rather than sending it up) , you would be surprised how many of the divers who used to read books during deco, began spinning 360's nearly the entire time, and quickly stopped complaining about how boring the deco was
Regards.
DanV
After a 60 foot dive, my ascent would still have me circling....better bubble filtering and it is just a habit I like.