What's your SAC rate?

shoupart · Dec 5, 2006

Time for some chest thumping!

what's everybody's SAC rate? Let's share and compare!

I'm between .45 to .49, most of the time, but always working on getting it lower.

Packhorse · Dec 5, 2006

Wow .45 -.49 ?
Im an air hog at 16 - 22 LPM (16/28.3= .56 cf 22/28.3 = .777cf)
I'd love to have a SAC of .45. Maybe it will get lower with my new fins and the warmer summer water.

Edit: Maybe I should point out this is in 15*C water and a fairly active dive. I usually cover quite a bit of territory.
Maybe I should try it with my camera up in Fiji and see how low it gets.

shoupart · Dec 5, 2006

Yeah, I was feeling proud of it till I saw some sort of the warmer water divers talking about .30 rates. But hey, I figure it's decent for cold water!

Bob_B · Dec 5, 2006

.48 in OW
.57 in the caves

GO figure

shoupart · Dec 5, 2006

Hmm... why do you suppose it's higher in the caves? A little more high-pressure, perhaps?
I think it's funny to see my rate go up on solo dives, especially night ones. Obviously, I'm not as calm and collected as I usually am!

Bob_B · Dec 5, 2006

I think my SAC goes up, in the caves, for several reasons... Flow, Task loading (using a video camera), setting jumps, running reels etc...

I have had people tell me that thier SAC drops in the caves.... Who knows.

Al Mialkovsky · Dec 5, 2006

In tropics it's .30-.35. In cold water doing checkouts with new students it goes up nearly double. But there I'm working, in the tropics I'm cruising.

It was better many years ago but I'm old and fat now.

rakkis · Dec 5, 2006

The only time I measured it (a long long time ago) was off Laguna Beach, CA. Water was maybe 60-65*F. It was 0.3. Of course I almost fell asleep just laying on the sand for 10 mins... so I suppose it wasn't the most truly representative sample

On the other hand, it was very Zen~

TSandM · Dec 6, 2006

Tonight's dive was 49 minutes in 50 degree water with ten feet or less of viz. SAC was .35.

dsteding · Dec 6, 2006

TSandM:
Tonight's dive was 49 minutes in 50 degree water with ten feet or less of viz. SAC was .35.

Mine (same dive) was 0.65, I'm twice the size of Lynne, and maybe a tenth the diver she is . . . maybe.

But, this was the first time since I started diving with her in May that my SAC was less than double what hers was.

I'll take that . . .

What's your SAC rate?

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