Carribeandiver
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Luc Dupas:Just plain curiosity... do you do a lot of deco dives ? A lot of dives in the 30m/100ft range ? A lot of dives of 60 to 120mins ? A lot of dives in water temperatures in the below 10C (below 50F) range ? Do you do a lot of dives with 7mm exposure suits ? Do you do a lot of dives where you have to 'struggle' against current, and in low viz ?
As my name implies, 90% of my dives are in warm water. My normal exposure suit is a .5 mil although in winter I wear a 1.0 mm suit. I have been on live aboards with up to 4 dives in a day and at least 2 of those are in the 60 to 100 foot depth range. My bottom time depends on my depth but I have done dives of 50 minutes or longer but those are all in depths of 50 feet or less.
No, I do not do any deco dives. The deepest I have been is around 110 feet and I have no desire to go any deeper. And, I have been in stiff currents a few times and I cannot say I am wild about that either. Drift dives are terrific but swimming against a 2 or 3 knot current is a nightmare. I have one particular dive in the Bahamas where I swam against a very stiff current and my air consumption was close to 2 cfm whereas on normal dives my air consumption is around .60 cfm.