Deepest solo yet

[Nemrod]

Not my deepest ever but worthy. Last fall in Table Rock on the Kimberling City sunken bridge.

I will not go back until I have a dry suit. Way to cold and dark down there.

Followed by this a bit over 110 in Table Rock to explore a return that looked odd. It was odd. I think this is it, I got some of my pics mixed up and I am confused. Sunken City.

Deepest solo this year was a bit over 110 feet in the Gulf to investigate another odd sonar return.
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[Doc Harry]

Jimmer,

Congratulations! That 100-foot mark is a big psychologcal landmark.

I just passed the 100-foot mark myself 2 weeks ago, soloing in Summersville Lake. It was completely dark below 85 feet. I had to turn back during my first attempt because the water was too cold (55 degrees). I put on my dry suit and went back down to 101 feet "just because it's there." (I had twin 80s with a manifold.)

Happy diving!

 

[Scubadoo72]

Psychological aspects certainly play a factor..for awhile, my deepest was 40', then I got comfortable with going deeper and deeper....and have now ventured to 73'..plenty comfortable at that depth at this point..but really haven't had a reason to go deeper yet..

 

[Jimmer]

Jimmer,

Congratulations! That 100-foot mark is a big psychologcal landmark.

I just passed the 100-foot mark myself 2 weeks ago, soloing in Summersville Lake. It was completely dark below 85 feet. I had to turn back during my first attempt because the water was too cold (55 degrees). I put on my dry suit and went back down to 101 feet "just because it's there." (I had twin 80s with a manifold.)

Happy diving!

See up here in Lake Erie we get the opposite. It starts off murky as hell, until you get past 85 feet, then you can see.

 

[Beachdive]

My deepest solo dive was 235 fsw last week on the E.M. Clark off Hatteras. Gases were 12/50, EAN 36, and O2; bottom time 20 minutes, total run tome 79 minutes. Prior to that I have made many solos dives in the 120-140 fsw range.

Chip Holcomb

Diving is better than talking about diving.

 

[Potapko]

My deepest solo was 178 feet in Attersee, Austria. 42 degree water. Another solo diver in the water at the same time went to 270 ft and died!!! :depressed:


His doubles were empty and his stage was full and untouched.

 

[wedivebc]

My deepest solo was 178 feet in Attersee, Austria. 42 degree water. Another solo diver in the water at the same time went to 270 ft and died!!! :depressed:


His doubles were empty and his stage was full and untouched.

Are you trolling Padre?

 

[Dive-aholic]

Sounds like a decent dive. I hope you were DMing on this trip since it sounds like you didn't get to see much of the wreck. Until now I hadn't even thought about it, but all of my solo dives except one over the past year or so have been in the 95-100' mark. The one was a little deeper. But they've all been in caves so I guess I don't think about it in the same way. For me it's more about the distance to the surface. In which case, my deepest as far as that's concerned is...in the 4 digit range...

 

[drbill]

One day back when I had what I considered the proper gear, I did three dives solo with the average depth being 180 fsw. You can bet there was a lot of extended deco time and no reverse profiles on those dives. Some divers think I should be dead... and there are a few who probably want me that way. I do NOT recommend my deep diving exploits to anyone.

I wanted to add that my deep diving episode was triggered initially by a desire to "experiment" (I am a scientist after all) with the effects of narcosis. I took about two months of descending deeper and testing my reaction to it before I decided to undertake the period (about 6 months) of deep diving. Why did I continue it for that length of time? Because there were critters there I wanted to film for a "deep ecology" segment of my cable TV show, and since you don't get much bottom time at those depths, it took a lot of dives to get the footage.

Now I'm all into bottom time and therefore stay mostly above 100 ft.

 

[marchand]

My deepest solo dive was to 110ffw, but i was 2400' (40 min including deco) from the surface. Needles to say I had an Al80 sidemounted just in case.