To T2T or not to T2T?

[TSandM]

well i think lots of people think about, a few of us even it tried before we were ever trained. Not endorsing this, simply admitting. My first official deco dive i was thrilled. I remember thinking "I'm doing a decompression dive" and feeling like the big fish in the little pond. Every minute was exciting just to be there. The training, the planning, I was just geek enough to enjoy all of that. Then you do some deco dives and now it's just time spent hanging in the water. Then you start doing some deeper deco dives and suddenly that time that was so exciting just to be there is dragging on endlessly as the minutes slowly tick off that you have accumulated in a 2:1 ratio if not more for you bottom time enjoyment. Throw in some unexpected cold water and the hang sucks. Your mind wanders, you begin to think in your mind I could cut off 10 minutes of deco and probably still be ok (like some twisted version of that old tv show name that tune). In the end, you do your hang, wish for summer to come and warm the water up, and smile when it's sunny topside and you are finally warm again.
at least that's my take on things

This is the quintessence of my experience with decompression dive. Cold and bored . . . and spending half an hour wondering whether what I just saw was worth $70 worth of helium and 30 very cold minutes.

I still love deep dives where you can do the deco on structure, and deep dives where you see unique critters. But scrabbling around to find dives so I can practice green water deco, not so much.

 

[LiteHedded]

you gotta pay to play

 

[ucfdiver]

you gotta pay to play

I did.

 

[ScubaFeenD]

I did.

Im still relatively new to the deco game, so the long hangs dont bother me nearly as much (although most of my deco temps are in the upper 60s and above)

Still, that is damn cool. So, how about a review

 

[Tortuga68]

Does it have a PvP mode so you can keep tabs on your buddy?

 

[cavemn]

Can you play Angry birds on it?

Honestly, any kind of entertainment is a huge plus when your deco obligations end up twice as long as your bottom time


Sent from my iPad

 

[rjack321]

To go back to bitching about the purpose of this forum...
At least people have to identify themselves here which reduces the troll factor that is most evident in the main forum right now.

 

[ucfdiver]

Can you play Angry birds on it?

Honestly, any kind of entertainment is a huge plus when your deco obligations end up twice as long as your bottom time


Sent from my iPad

video/music only

 

[boulderjohn]

My trimix training was with two agencies that were remarkably different in their beliefs about deep diving. Those differences would make wonderful discussions, IMO.

My cave training included thoughts that were also very different from some of my previous training. These differences, too, would be interesting.

Such discussions would indeed be appropriate in a T2T forum, but they don't happen here. I am not sure why, but I have an idea. I have seen some of these topics start to be discussed on a number of occasions in various forums, but the discussions don't go far because people who express a point of view that is fairly common in technical diving but runs counter to the thoughts of some people in this forum get shouted down quickly for their "obvious stupidity." It is hard to maintain a discussion in such an environment.

I recently started a thread in another forum related to the alterations in decompression schedules related to altitude. A topic like that would be good here, I would think. I prefaced my remarks by saying I was interested because of the fact that some of my friends had gotten bent while doing deco dives at altitude and had therefore started to research the topic in more depth. I was then contacted by a SB member representing the agency under whose direction those divers had been diving and told that because I did not also tell why he did not think those DCS cases were altitude-related, that sentence was unethical. He told me if I wrote another such sentence, he would report me to PADI (for whom I am an instructor) for disciplinary action.

Although that threat was absurd, that's the sort of attitude that discourages discussion.

 

[ucfdiver]

haha, was that UTD who did that? I've seen something on their forums that state they dont adjust ratio deco at altitude.