Of course, GUE's tables assume minimum deco, which is more deco than you would do with PADI's tables, with the three minute stop at 15 feet.
Yup, ironically a ~5min ascent gives you 5 more mins on the bottom
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Of course, GUE's tables assume minimum deco, which is more deco than you would do with PADI's tables, with the three minute stop at 15 feet.
GUE vs padi's EAN32 tables (v. 1.0)
40mins at 90ft vs 35mins
50mins at 80ft vs 45mins
60min at 70ft is same as padi
100mins at 60ft vs 90mins
170mins at 50ft vs 155mins
All in all, they seem pretty damn aggressive to me.
Since this is only cyber diving can I hold my breath?
Seems a little strange to me. PADI's tables assume you can skip the safety stop and allow a fast ascent. If the GUE tables would include a 20 minute stop at 20 ft think of how much extra bottom time you could get! I got the tables with the Rec-1 book and thought they were aggressive too.
It's also not so obvious to me that these tables will really help GUE Rec divers play nice with PADI/SSI/etc divers (which would matter more if any recreational divers actually dived tables).
Richard, I can easily see a recreational diver hitting NDL on a HP130 in Jupiter FL where the bottom is often at 100ft and lots of shops rent large steel tanks.
I still think fitness, rest & hydration is 100x more important than overstaying NDL by a few minutes, heck even 5-7+ minutes....but I wouldn't say that if I could be held legally responsible for it.
Guess so...Does Rec1 have a 60ft depth limit like most RSTC OW courses?
Realistically is a GUE rec1 diver with a realistic warm water small woman beginner consumption of 0.7 ever going to hit these limits on a single tank of EAN32? I could come close in MX or FL cave diving in the 80-90ft range and my consumption is decent (sac = 0.4-0.45 in warm water), but that's in doubles. In a single tank I don't see it happening unless you're on dive 5 of a day with short SIs.
I have no idea what taught regarding using air if that's all you can get.