Great discussion all, thank you all for your input/incite:cool2:
Lowviz - I like that, and now my wife will love you for me making her breath a tank while sitting and watching tv
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TsandM and a couple others - I did not want this to be a contest, I was hoping for a conversation and learning experience for myself and others.
NWGratefullDiver - Thank you and I will be reading your article
waterpirate - I agree, what you said is part of what I was trying to communicate. How to control your breathing. I know I struggled at first with it. I hated being the guy that ended the dive for the group.
What suprised me with diving is that we live at 8,500ft and I am a runner. I run 5 & 10K's and some shorter distances. I can run a 5k in 15:53 consistently. That is a very competitive time and my SAC rate was pretty bad when we first started diving. I have had to work on it to get it down to the .455 I am at. I was really suprised that my SAC rate was some what bad when I know what kind of shape I am in.
Now I am aware of my breathing while diving and have much better control than I did at first, thanks in a very large part to threads i have read on this board!!!
My next stop is ??? who knows ???