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Ok, my bad on the cheap word. I'll go back and edit that post if I can. But I did upgrade to the MK25 when I decided to train for a 200 ft dive. Haven't done it yet, may not - but I wouldn't do it on anything less. My Oceanic Reg is one of their better ones, and I used it to 160 ft before I upgraded - but that was pushing it.
You really have no business at 165 ft! I don't mean to be rude, but feel I should state that opinion. I'm also worried about this post - thot about it more after I logged off...
I dive a 40# lift BC, what do you dive? I know you could always dump weights, but that's really a last resort thing I want to save for the surface. If your BC won't lift you, it's not enough for your diving.
And I didn't see TDI or any other tech agency on your profile. I suggest that this 165 ft dive should also have only been done with a tech Instructor as your buddy - like I had for my 160 ft dive mentioned above. (No, my 180 ft Ooops was not with one; I certainly screw up, too - trying not to again.)
Oh, the face sting is normal when you hit thermoclines. It takes a minute for the vessels in your face to adjust to the cold.
If your reg can't keep up, it can't keep up CO2 retention is certainly not good, especially at depth. Have you read the David Shaw death dive story? Raising The Dead: here...breathing issues were due to overexertion...
You really have no business at 165 ft! I don't mean to be rude, but feel I should state that opinion. I'm also worried about this post - thot about it more after I logged off...
kalidor's8:I will also say this, you really notice just how different everything is once you start going deeper. We were wearing only 10pds of weight and by the time we reached around 140 with BC's fully inflated we would still have been dropping like rocks if we did not have a down line. I was a bit light towards the surface. And VERY cold, I felt like my face was going to freeze even though my temp guage only said around 51 degrees, and I have dove in those conditions before I don't think it felt quite that cold.
I dive a 40# lift BC, what do you dive? I know you could always dump weights, but that's really a last resort thing I want to save for the surface. If your BC won't lift you, it's not enough for your diving.
And I didn't see TDI or any other tech agency on your profile. I suggest that this 165 ft dive should also have only been done with a tech Instructor as your buddy - like I had for my 160 ft dive mentioned above. (No, my 180 ft Ooops was not with one; I certainly screw up, too - trying not to again.)
Oh, the face sting is normal when you hit thermoclines. It takes a minute for the vessels in your face to adjust to the cold.