What is your max depth?

dhampton82 · Oct 19, 2006

Just outta curiousity, What is your max depth while free diving?

It seems that this is something that would of been asked on here before, but I couldnt find it anywere.....

How did you reach this depth? Was is variable weight, Constant weight, etc.....?

Oh, and if this has been asked before please let me know were the thread is.

ONLY FREE DIVING!! not on scuba!

shark_tamer · Oct 19, 2006

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dhampton82 · Oct 19, 2006

hm........ nothing down there about max depth except in the "basic SCUBA discussions" forum..................

John C. Ratliff · Oct 19, 2006

I've hit 75 feet a few years back (about 1975), and haven't tried for depth since. No need to do so, and so at this point, I don't know. But I'd guess from doing some breathhold dives for 2+ minutes recently that I can still get to 75 feet fairly easily, if there was some reason to do so. It is something I would need to adapt to, and probably take about a half hour of breathhold diving to accomplish.

SeaRat

H2Andy · Oct 19, 2006

1,236 feet

dhampton82 · Oct 19, 2006

H2Andy:
1,236 feet

hm..... and how was that accomplished andy?:huh:

H2Andy · Oct 19, 2006

yeah well i can't give away my secrets

drbill · Oct 19, 2006

I won't go below 200' (at least not on air). However, I always go to the bottom... unless I'm blue water shark diving and the bottom is 1,500 ft as it was Monday. For most people there is little to no need to dive below recreational depth limits. I only do deep diving to reach certain species of interest.

do it easy · Oct 19, 2006

I dabbled a bit with freediving lately. I got to 50'- using scuba fins, a 3mm and a scuba mask. I did wear 8lbs, but I chickened out the first time I hit 50' and ditched my wieghts, so I guess that would be variable ballast.

It's an odd dive since the surface can be 75f and clear, but the bottom wil be 50f and low vis. I was 2' from the bottom and I couldn't see it.

John C. Ratliff · Oct 20, 2006

drbill:
I won't go below 200' (at least not on air). However, I always go to the bottom... unless I'm blue water shark diving and the bottom is 1,500 ft as it was Monday. For most people there is little to no need to dive below recreational depth limits. I only do deep diving to reach certain species of interest.

Dr. Bill,

I thought we were talking about breathhold diving.

SeaRat

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