sac rate

Over the past year I have moved away from diving my Xstream regs and switched to the ATX 50's (diving sidemount). My last cave week in Mexico I noticed a considerable difference in SAC rate. With my Poseidon's', I was getting an average of 19-20psi/min. Switching to the Apeks, I was at an...

I'm brushing up on my gas planning math in preparation for my next cave diving trip (coming up in two weeks!). To save some space in my Wet Notes/not need to calculate consumption de novo for each dive, I made a chart of RMV for depths of 20-200ft at SAC rates of 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0...

How to Improve Air Consumption going live. Hope some find it useful:

So, I've been diving for a couple of years and have logged 72 dives. I have always been comfortable underwater and can also perform decent freediving. When swimming in the sea for fun I'm ok with going down to 10 meters to explore and hold my breath for a minute, comfortably coming back up...