Hemlon
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On my last set of dives, I was pretty far past NDL on the final dive of the day.
What has been your longest deco penalty?
What has been your longest deco penalty?
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TSandM:Well, And it was furious when I took it out of the water, and refused to talk to me for two days.
TSandM:And it was furious when I took it out of the water, and refused to talk to me for two days.
TSandM:Well, on our second dive off the boat in Monterey, my computer thought I should spend 20 minutes at 10 feet.
Of course, I'd forgotten to set it for 32%.
I'd been watching my depth meter and timer, and I knew where I really stood. That was the dive where I decided that carrying the computer didn't make any sense. If I was going to ignore what it said anyway, why have it beeping at me? And it was furious when I took it out of the water, and refused to talk to me for two days.
paulwlee:When you say pretty far past, I hope you mean just a couple minutes of deco time on your computer. Otherwise, did you have enough redundant gas to finish deco if you lost your gas at that point? Did you have enough gas for both you and your buddy in such a scenario? Did your buddy? Did you discuss this before the dive?
There are some more planning and other requirements once you get into decompression diving as you are now diving in a virtual overhead environment. (Meaning you can't just ascend to the surface immediately without an appreciable probability of bad consequences.)