Oh, it can happen, but you called it a certainty.
'deep stop' experiences
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It usually goes, "I feel much less fatigued when I do deep stops" vs. "I've never felt any difference". This thread has gone absolutely pre Madonna
Long before deep stops became popular there was a practice whereby you could in an emergency safely half your depth if running low on bottom gas but you would then have to make a 2 minute stop. For instance if in 200 feet and running low you could make a very fast assent to 100 if needed.
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Long before deep stops became popular...We used to make a direct ascent to the surface at 60 feet per minute on any no stop dive.
Yep 60 fpm was a normal assent rate, deco or no deco. If you went any slower and you were late to the first stop you would have to add the lag time to the first deco stop time
The logic was impeccable. You wanted to get rid of N2, so why hang around where it was being added?
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