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Dana is that total bottom time or including your 30 minutes smoke break surface interval?
Dive reports with beach/weather conditions
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Twisted Bones
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My best is 120 on a steel 80. Generally get 90 to 100, depends on activity.
Matt
Matt
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I guess if you're kayak or boat diving, and pull your tank pressure below the "safe" 500psi and you're diving in 20 fsw or less in warm water and no current, it is possible to get 120 minutes or more from an 80. My point was that beach diving it is unlikely, unless you surface swim all the way out and back and pull your tank below 500 psi. Do able but not a good diving practice.
divindiva69
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Diving with my shorty steel 80 (the one you hate Dana) and when I dive solo, I dive till the last drop!
adurso
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At Venice we surface swim out, and back, my wife can get close to three hours on an 80, I need a steel 120 pumped to a cave fill to stay with her.
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Karen, I dive with HP steel 80's also, but I don't surface swim all the way out, I generally drop just past the sandbar, turn around @ 1000psi and surface swim once I get back to the sandbar. Being a DM, I try to model good diving practices!
dkramer
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That's total bottom time Michael! It is off the Kayak though.
10/19/2014
Service Club
Time 9 am
Seas flat
Wind E @ 5
Water Temp 79
Max depth 24'
Dive time 127 min
Vis Spotty some places 6'+ others down to 2'
Finds usual small stuff
Service Club
Time 9 am
Seas flat
Wind E @ 5
Water Temp 79
Max depth 24'
Dive time 127 min
Vis Spotty some places 6'+ others down to 2'
Finds usual small stuff
Service Club on the 19th
Time 9:47 am
Wind out of East
Vis - getting better 6-8 in some places, spotty in others.
Time 9:47 am
Wind out of East
Vis - getting better 6-8 in some places, spotty in others.
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Venice Beach
10/19/2014
79* temp
19' depth
90 minutes
5-7 vis, spotty around the blocks
Snook, flounder, jack crevalle, red grouper, stone crab, queen angel, razor fish, blennies, batfish, sea robin
handful small teeth- lemon, sand, bull
10/19/2014
79* temp
19' depth
90 minutes
5-7 vis, spotty around the blocks
Snook, flounder, jack crevalle, red grouper, stone crab, queen angel, razor fish, blennies, batfish, sea robin
handful small teeth- lemon, sand, bull
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