Deepest solo yet

[TheBigPhillyFish]

Wow, my little 95' in 46* quarry water is nothing to the last few posts above. But it is my personal best for now.

 

[hannahevan]

Mine would be the Moonstone off Delaware @132'

 

[DevonDiver]

Anilao, Philippines. 240'

 

[Atomic_Diver]

150' is my deepest solo dive

 

[Trace Malinowski]

"Boy! I'll show these guys!"

180 fsw Bloody Bay Wall ... Freedive. No scuba. No buddy. No spotters. Farm animal stupid.

Never thought a thread and I would be so perfect together.

 

[jridg]

103 fsw this past weekend - on a wreck I am very familiar with. There were other divers in the water, but I was usually not too close to them. I was diving with my best 'buddy' (19cuf pony). I was on 32% nitrox - played it very conservative and did not penetrate the wreck. did a 1 minute stop at 50' - 3 minutes at 15' - surfaced with just over 1500psi in remaining in my HP 120.

I had a GREAT time, it was very relaxing and I truly enjoyed not having to keep an eye out for anyone else. I don't mind diving with another person, but this was more relaxing by far.

 

[gwilki]

156 fsw on the JB King in the St Lawrence River last weekend. The viz was great, water temp was just under 70F and the current was rippin'.

A great day and a fine dive.

 

[WD8CDH]

Glad to hear that, Jimmer. Not knowing much about you, I was concerned. I've seen divers out here go to 160+ solo without any redundancy at all, just an Al 80. I may do some crazy things, but diving deep (> 40 ft IMHO) solo without redundancy is one thing I wouldn't do after my incident a few years ago.

I won't do ANY diving deeper than a swimming pool without redundancy, solo or with a buddy.

That said, may last dive was a solo dive to 200 feet on trimix OC with "backup" and the ascent and decompression on my rebreather. What can I say, I needed to drain the tanks for hydro anyway.

My least redundant rig is double 40's with two regulators on the manifold.

 

[Stoo]

I won't do ANY diving deeper than a swimming pool without redundancy, solo or with a buddy.

Ditto... The only single tanks I own are stage bottles... Twin 130s, twin 95s and twin 80s...

 

[WD8CDH]

Apparently you are not too good at math. People dive deeper than that on a single breath (with no scuba gear). An 80 is more than enough gas to get you down and back if you hurry. I DO NOT recommend this to anyone!

I think he was assuming standard SCUBA rates of ascent and descent, not breath holding rates.