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I asked you what you meant by "same result" and then you just repeated "same result". I still don't know what your actual question is. So far I have your questio0n/assertion as "If you dive conservatively it's the same as diving nitrox". But the agreement/rebuttal of that completely depends...

Yeah I read your post. I still did not understand what the actual question is. What do you mean by "the same result"?

@rob.mwpropane Can you ask a more specific question? What exactly are you confused about?

What does she like? Is she adventurous/outdoorsy? Will she want to shop/hit the town? Does she like to lounge around for a week and read/drink lounge by the beach or pool and never leave the all inclusive resort? All of these can mean different destinations would be a better fit. Hell I met a...

IMO the HUD is an accident analysis red herring. The combination of no necklace and solo diving was the key issue with this dive. Any multitude of issues could cause a need for immediate bailout and it's not the HUD that interfered with bailout deployment. If they were unable to deploy bailout...

I feel like a lot of people have missed the point of OP's question. "What are some reasons to pad deco sometimes" is not the question that OP is asking. They aren't asking about waiting for a friend, or being cold, or having worked hard. They aren't asking people what the point of more...

The answer is that you're right. It doesn't make sense. But human brains are weird and this gives people the warm fuzzies. Lowing your GF High by 5-10 will only add a few minutes to your last stop or two for the kinds of profiles most people are diving (e.g. <2 hrs of deco).

Like or hate divetalk people need to watch before throwing out opinions. The issue wasn't whether they reimbursed a claim or not. The issue was that if Woody didn't have 25k+ available to pay out of his pocket he wasn't going to get treatment for type 2 neuro DCS. It appears DAN was going to...

Hot dropping to 150ft on air is the most narced I ever felt. This was an "easy" dive I was doing on OC in warm, clear water. I hadn't ever felt narced before (I know you're always narced to some degree deep but never felt strong to me), so I wasn't too worried about it. Despite having done...

I have a few hundred hours on a JJ. Mostly wreck diving northeast US. Taking complex abstract concepts and seeing how those concepts map and hold up to different hypothetical examples is a common exercise in teasing out the veracity of ideas. It's also a common method to highlight particular...

I'm not arguing for early CCR. I think, for example, there are a lot of excellent points about OC tech being simpler and allowing people to learn the fundamentals of tech diving in a bit more forgiving setup. I think there is also a lot of "human factors" value to a team really deeply...

I was giving a simplified example to make a basic point. Even with your changes my point still stands 100%. Sure, give both divers 20 years of realistic experience on both paths and do the comparison. If your example diver went CCR right away they would have almost twenty years of CCR diving...

I feel like this topic is more complex than a lot of people realize. It seems like it falls into the same category of mistaken thinking as "work as imagined vs work as done" Lets imagine two divers over six years: Lets assume they are diving regularly at their highest level of training. (YOD=...

This is going to vary based on the shop, the instructor, the "role" you're playing as DM, and the class you're DMing for. Some shops/programs expect DMs to be assistance instructors and some expect them to be invisible safety divers (this isn't an endorsement of either, just stating how it is)...

Does this actually happen anymore? I feel like the "boat crew bogyman" is just a hold over from when transmitters were new. How many boat crew these days don't know what a transmitter is and that it's fragile? I've had my transmitter right on my 1st stage for years (in recreational and...

The CNS impact of 1.4 vs 1.6 is significant. The margin for error at 1.4 is pretty big, but starts to get more narrow as you hit or exceed 1.6. Meanwhile the nitrogen uptake difference is trivial. While no one should be freaking out about a dip to 1.6, It seems like a silly tradeoff to stress...

A backup spg is not quite redundancy. It's a tradeoff. You're decreasing your chances of information loss and increasing your chances of gas loss. Both result in you calling the dive, but only one bleeds something important to your safety. That said these failures are infrequent and trivial...

A dive to 140 feet with 15 min of deco on a single hp100 is not a technical dive. It's a poorly planned and unsafe recreational dive. Same for a recreational diver on an al80 going into a cave. I point this out because a lot of definitions listed so far would call these tech dives. IMO a...

I'm familiar with the algorithm and math involved. If you post some specific questions about which values you aren't sure where they come from, or how to do a calculation, I'd be happy to help when I get a chance to read and reply thoroughly.

The answer really depends and changes based on how familiar the audience is with the given concepts. The other big factor is that it's all pretty theoretical (And largely validated by just whether people are getting bent or not). You pick the algorithm/technique, work through it, and you get...