WHAT do you call low VIS?

[GDI]

:doctor:

Having done some very low vis in my time, low enough to see if I even had a light turned on! I hear other divers talk and state what they say is low VIS and how you should move about in it. I wonder what you consider to be low VIS? How many inches or feet?

 

[metridium]

Crappy vis is anything less than 20'.

Anything below 10' is best viewed from the surface.



Throw in a current and those numbers increase along with it.

 

[Spectre]

6-10 is about normal for a lot of my dives this year... so low vis isn't until I can't see my fins...

 

[DiverBuoy]

I've seen commercial divers post that being submerged in essentially mud is considered a dive. Ok that would be vis equivalent to the gap between the cornea of your eyeball and the outside edge of the mask's lens.

Vis is around 10'-12' tonight in So Cal.

 

[Rooster1]

less then 10 feet and it kinda sucks;-0

 

[Dee]

For our local lakes....

10-20 is normal on good days, this time of year 5-10 is normal. 1-5, or anytime I can't see my fins from the surface would be considered low.

 

[SDAnderson]

Largely subjective:

• To kill for: > 100ft
• To die for: 75 - 100 ft
• Great dive: 50 - 75 ft
• Good dive: 25 - 50 ft
• Why are we here: 10 - 25 ft
• I'm outta here: <10 ft

Worst vis I've ever been in was a recovery dive on the bottom of a closed system freshwater lake. Silt so deep you can swim for several feet beneath the "bottom," reading your gauges requires pressing them against your mask. I'd like to say it'll never happen again, but I still want to do the Cooper River Tooth Crawl one of these days...

Steven

 

[DiverBuoy]

But let's get real. Wouldn't we all love to see 200' everytime we dove? Is there anyone in their right mind who prefers it otherwise.

Ok I just thought of one - a navy seal in hostile territory

 

[builderbloke]

lol have any of you dived in the uk 10 ' is a blessing

 

[Angry Turtle]

I guess I am a spoiled little brat...

Born and raised in the Caribbeann, and now live in Florida.

Up to now I have never experienced anything less than 50ft of vis

Reading about your experiences is so alien to me.

Makes me appreciate what I have even more