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Hey, it's all about having fun and staying within THE limits and your limits.
NJDiveGirl
Guest
I know what you mean! I remember the first time I had to surface not because of lack of air!
These days I have a tendancy to be cold before either low air or approaching NDLs - and thats in a drysuit!
I wish I lived somewhere warmer!
These days I have a tendancy to be cold before either low air or approaching NDLs - and thats in a drysuit!
I wish I lived somewhere warmer!
Karl_in_Calif
Banned
If your NDLs resulted from using tables, you may want to get a dive computer. Computers are more accurate about interpolating your times at given depths. Plus long dives at shallow depths using tables unfairly limit you as well, since in reality you could stay forever at 20 fsw, whereas the tables make you round up to 40 ft. Big difference.
OP
That's why I'm really psyched... not only was it a computer computed bottom time... it was on a pretty healthy nitrox mix.
Now, it is a Suunto, which I know is often like an overly-careful Grandmother about times, but I'm saying...
Karl_in_Calif
Banned
Give us some more clues?
Were you diving doubles then?
Or doing a whole lot of repetitive dives?
Don Burke
Contributor
That's a major waypoint in diver development.
...and well you should be.
It's not stupid at all. It means you are getting more comfortable in the water.
Karl_in_Calif
Banned
I think if you push Suunto to the limits at 100 fsw or deeper, you will find that it is no grandmother at all.
Do not try it!
Just saying, Suunto looks conservative by its low NDLs compared to USN. But on deeper dives, it rivals USN, which means you really should have a hyperbaric chamber on site first, if you want to push the deep end limits of Suunto as well.
Good work man, it's cool to see yourself improve eh? Are you tracking your SAC/RMV (the cfm you're using, I've seen some confusion over which is which) but that's a good tangible way to monitor what's going on with your breathing.
OP
Single Steel 100s
Repetitive yes, a whole lot... not really. Not enough to destroy bottom times.
Loaded everything from this weekend into the Suunto dive manager which reports my SAC has dropped down to around an average of .62 or .63. Not yet where I hope it can one day be, but it's been headed that way.
By the way, anyone know exactly how the dive manager figures the SAC rate? Does it just do average depth & PSI used or does it figure in each depth? (This is for non AI.)
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