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Just in case your interested in JUST HOW FAR DOWN YOU CAN GO...
Comex Divers did:
* In 1977 - 501m in the Meditteranean Sea breathing Heliox
* In 1988 - 530m, again in the Med., breathing Hydro-Heliox ( 49/50/1 ) - 8 days to reach depth, 18 days deco.
* In 1992 - a dive in a test saturation complex called "Hydra 10" took them to 675m after 18 days of compression, again breathing hydro-heliox. One of these lads transfered into a smaller chamber & was further compressed to 701m. Deco. took several weeks.
No one experienced any significant problems at these depths.
"When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep - like my Grandfather did...........................................not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car......
Just in case your interested in JUST HOW FAR DOWN YOU CAN GO...
Comex Divers did:
* In 1977 - 501m in the Meditteranean Sea breathing Heliox
* In 1988 - 530m, again in the Med., breathing Hydro-Heliox ( 49/50/1 ) - 8 days to reach depth, 18 days deco.
* In 1992 - a dive in a test saturation complex called "Hydra 10" took them to 675m after 18 days of compression, again breathing hydro-heliox. One of these lads transfered into a smaller chamber & was further compressed to 701m. Deco. took several weeks.
No one experienced any significant problems at these depths.
"When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep - like my Grandfather did...........................................not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car......
And...there may not have been a significant problem at that depth, but I wonder about the cumulative effects of saturation diving that deep for decades. Hmmmm....
Your answer lies in the more appropriate question: "why not?"
I bet those dives would make great stories. How do you prepare. What science goes in to the gas mixture. But even more interesting: what about sleeping and eating! How do you do that?
"Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late,
the cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder,
I'm an over 40's victim of fate, arriving too late, arriving too late........"
J.Buffett
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Originally Posted by DeepSeaDan
