How deep do you go?

How deep have you gone on SCUBA?

  • Down to 60'

    Votes: 17 6.6%
  • 61' to 100'

    Votes: 36 14.0%
  • 101' to 130'

    Votes: 93 36.0%
  • 131' to 160'

    Votes: 55 21.3%
  • 161' to 200'

    Votes: 27 10.5%
  • 201' to 275'

    Votes: 21 8.1%
  • 276' to 330'

    Votes: 6 2.3%
  • Deeper than 331'

    Votes: 3 1.2%

  • Total voters
    258

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Rhone Man

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It is Friday - time for another completely unnecessary poll to waste time rather than do actual work.

How deep have you gone on SCUBA (sorry, I don't do meters)?

To answer the first few inevitable replies:
- Yes, I realise that going deeper does not make you more 'macho'
- No, I wouldn't want to encourage inexperienced divers to try and set 'records'
- Yes, I realise polls are entirely unscientific and sometimes cause arguments
- Yes, I agree that SB members probably would dive deeper than average
- No, I do not have a life.

For my own experience, my instructor took me down 185' for my AOW deep dive (things were more relaxed in those days) so I could experienced being narked out of my skull (it worked), but other than that I have only ventured a short way below 100' once.
 
My personal max depth is 85'. I have easy access to deeper water, but I haven't had a reason to dive the deeper depths of the lake.
 
62 meters.... There was a wreck there....... Who could say no? Besides that, I have stayed at the 45 meter area- a wreck I train people on.... And above. I only feel the need to go to those depths if there is something I want to find or see..... I am just not one of the extreme record chasers...
 
Why do the polls at Scuba Board never show metric equivalents??? Rhone Man, if you can't do metres just type the following into google search bar '60ft in m' or '10m in ft', it will give you the conversion. :)

Anyway I digress... currently, my deepest dive has been 22m but after tomorrow it will be 39m when I do my Deep course. Unless a deep sea monster catches me on the way down. :11:
 
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i'll go past 100 ft, but prefer to stay more shallow so i don't use my air up so fast. i hate to go really deep, then about as soon as i get to depth have to start thinking about my ascent.
 
I've been to 140' two times; it was part of my rescue diver education. As I was with two of my favourite instructors, I felt quite safe. But I would not do it with someone that I don't know well.
 
Well if we are going to argue semantics, why stop at meters? I want to log my poll answer in Fathoms, it's more nautical and thus closer related to diving than meters. Charts come in Fathom readings anyway.
 
Interesting. The poll is starting to look like a pretty symetrical bell curve.
 

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