Mike Boswell
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Amy's public profile says she is certified PADI AOW, and she wondered whether it would be okay to dive to 180 feet. The correct answer is short and simple: "No".
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You made the right decision. The most important rule in SCUBA is to know your limits and dive within them.
I have dove the San Francisco Maru on a single eighty. Not much bottom time, but it is on my top ten list of best dives ever.
The little voice in your head is exactly right.
Your near stranger buddy is an idiot.
The plan is to descend, have a look for 15 minutes tops and then do a 15 min or so deco stop on the way up. This is not even close to being a legitimate plan.
Critical rule: Any diver can abort any dive at any time for any reason, or even no reson at all, I just don't have a warm fuzzy feeling. No one questions an abort.
If you don't know it's a good idea, it's probably a bad one.
I new this was coming. I was diving with a group of people that were also diving eighties. Was that dive within my limits, absolutely. Was it reckless abandonment , absolutely. But what it boils down to is that it was an acceptable risk for me, that day, and that dive. Acceptable risk is different for everyone. Sounds like for you that dive would not be an acceptable risk and I’m ok with that. For some people, flying down the freeway at 120 mph on a crotch rocket is an acceptable risk, for me, no way. In the end I get to choose what is and is not an acceptable risk for myself and nobody else. By the way I did have a pony bottle as well that came in handy for the last couple of minutes of the deco stop.So... Would you say that diving to 165' or more on a single eighty is "within your limits?" Just ot of curiosity, did you dive as part of a team, and if so, were they also diving eighties?
I new this was coming. I was diving with a group of people that were also diving eighties. Was that dive within my limits, absolutely. Was it reckless abandonment , absolutely. But what it boils down to is that it was an acceptable risk for me, that day, and that dive. Acceptable risk is different for everyone. Sounds like for you that dive would not be an acceptable risk and Im ok with that. For some people, flying down the freeway at 120 mph on a crotch rocket is an acceptable risk, for me, no way. In the end I get to choose what is and is not an acceptable risk for myself and nobody else. By the way I did have a pony bottle as well that came in handy for the last couple of minutes of the deco stop.
I new this was coming. I was diving with a group of people that were also diving eighties. Was that dive within my limits, absolutely. Was it reckless abandonment , absolutely. But what it boils down to is that it was an acceptable risk for me, that day, and that dive.