The toys are definitely cool.
Deco diving is a whole new mindset. It is the transition from recreational diving to a technical mindset. Really planning your dives to a T and following the plan. Starting to think about your dives in a fashion outside of "hey I'll just go down for a bit and then come back up". Starting to really plan dives with a team. Using redundancy to keep you alive in an emergency.
It is rewarding in and of itself to me. Meeting a challenge and planning something complex and then seeing the plan through is rewarding to me. Plus, I get to do and see things most don't and I love it. Deep shipwrecks. Deep caves. Or, just long dives on shallow ships or in shallow caves.
By getting the training to deco diving you can really expand your diving - limits start to disappear. If I want to spend some quality time on a wreck I can do 40 minutes of bottom time on a 140 foot wreck. I can bump up my air with a few percentage points of 02 to reduce the deco obligation and then accelerate the deco with 50% and 02 to keep the dive to a reasonable time. Or I can plan something deeper - get some helium and go see a shipwreck in 200 feet of water with masts standing and rigging hanging. It can really open up a new world and it is awesome.
Deco diving is a whole new mindset. It is the transition from recreational diving to a technical mindset. Really planning your dives to a T and following the plan. Starting to think about your dives in a fashion outside of "hey I'll just go down for a bit and then come back up". Starting to really plan dives with a team. Using redundancy to keep you alive in an emergency.
It is rewarding in and of itself to me. Meeting a challenge and planning something complex and then seeing the plan through is rewarding to me. Plus, I get to do and see things most don't and I love it. Deep shipwrecks. Deep caves. Or, just long dives on shallow ships or in shallow caves.
By getting the training to deco diving you can really expand your diving - limits start to disappear. If I want to spend some quality time on a wreck I can do 40 minutes of bottom time on a 140 foot wreck. I can bump up my air with a few percentage points of 02 to reduce the deco obligation and then accelerate the deco with 50% and 02 to keep the dive to a reasonable time. Or I can plan something deeper - get some helium and go see a shipwreck in 200 feet of water with masts standing and rigging hanging. It can really open up a new world and it is awesome.
