Ok, so I have what is probably a stupid question, but I'm gonna ask anyway.
If you are shore diving, and you go past 30 feet, you still do a safety stop at 15 feet right? Someone was telling me that the safety stop is only used when boat diving and this doesn't seem right to me.
If the purpose of the stop is to aid in off-gassing while ascending from +30 feet (and to aid in a slow ascent), it shouldn't matter if you went from the surface (ie -boat diving) directly to +30 feet vs. following the bottom from shore to +30 feet...you'd still do the 3 minute safety on the way back up to the surface, or to the shore, right?
Thanks!
If you are shore diving, and you go past 30 feet, you still do a safety stop at 15 feet right? Someone was telling me that the safety stop is only used when boat diving and this doesn't seem right to me.
If the purpose of the stop is to aid in off-gassing while ascending from +30 feet (and to aid in a slow ascent), it shouldn't matter if you went from the surface (ie -boat diving) directly to +30 feet vs. following the bottom from shore to +30 feet...you'd still do the 3 minute safety on the way back up to the surface, or to the shore, right?
Thanks!