BDSC
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Your right - sorry not sure how I missed that.
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Your right - sorry not sure how I missed that.
OP stated they would be diving with Aldora Divers. They will be using HP steel 120s rather than AL 80s. Primairy air supply should not be a problem. In addition, they are likely to have been observed for skill level on prior dives and are likely to have a quality DM.
I would be more concerned about other divers in the swim through. You're talking about an environment that's really only appropriate for technical (or unusually advanced recreational) divers, most of whom would not prefer to do the dive with AL80s, and especially with unknown divers.
I did Punta Sur way before I should have. I was okay, but all it takes is one person in the cluster-******* ahead of you in the swim through to really foul things up. As it was in my case, I couldn't see much of anything except the fins flailing away in front of me.
I think Aldora has some larger tanks, and hopefully you'll go through with a good group. I wouldn't count on it, though.
OTOH, several groups of severely under-prepared divers go through Devil's throat every day of the year and they don't seem to be dying regularly. I just don't think it's a pleasant experience. I'd dive Colombia deep or deeper parts of Palancar 20 times before spending another dive at Devil's throat.
Very interesting thoughts in regard to dive numbers on here. I personally find it kind of weird how susinctly somebody can be judged to be either talented enough or not talented enough based on some strange stepped system based soley on quanties of dives.
Kind of to me like judging the tastiness of a bartenders drinks based on how many of them he has made, meaning a bartender who has made only 10 rum and cokes would not be able to compete with the rum and coke of a bartender who has made 1000 in his career.
Having dived the devil's throat and also the cenotes, I humbly suggest you dive some cenotes before doing the throat.
Lots of swim throughs and we have a tiny cavern diving experience from Cenote diving a couple of years ago.
The OP has the equivalent of about 6 or 7 dives a year for the last 7 years. That really is not that many. That is probably three two tank boat dives a year.
My guess (and it is little more than that) is that the OP is at the more skilled end of divers with that background. If they had been dives that were super challenging (once to 100, many times to 80, all probably tropical) or they had been concentrated in the last year, that would be one thing.
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Anyways, just find it interesting, when this is all recreational diving for the most of us how somehow it all becomes so technically oriented. Like I said, what exactly are you gaining between dive #81 and dive #82?
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