anchochile
Contributor
I'm headed to Florida for work soon and am hoping to fit in a dive at the Blue Heron Bridge. Depths on this dive range from 10-20 fsw and bottom time would be 1-2 hours.
Based on the tides when I'm there, the dive would be in the morning around 8-9am.
I'm wondering, given that it's such a shallow dive, how much offgassing time I'd need before flying. I could either fly out that same afternoon (with about 6 hours out of the water to offgas before the flight), or the following afternoon (with 30 hours of offgassing before my flight).
Waiting till the next day means paying for an extra day for a rental car, an extra night in a hotel, and an extra 24 hours away from my family. But of course, none of that is worth getting bent over.
I'm usually very conservative when it comes to avoiding DCS and don't have any interest in pushing my margin of safety, so my working assumption here is that if I do the morning BHB dive, I'd need to wait until the following afternoon to fly out.
But I thought I'd pose the question here on the off chance that the experts would say that it's totally fine, given the shallow depth of the dive and minimal nitrogen that I'd absorb.
Note: the day before the BHB dive, I will be diving in Key Largo, with my last dive ending mid-afternoon, about 24 hours before my theoretical flight. Not sure if this would make a difference.
Based on the tides when I'm there, the dive would be in the morning around 8-9am.
I'm wondering, given that it's such a shallow dive, how much offgassing time I'd need before flying. I could either fly out that same afternoon (with about 6 hours out of the water to offgas before the flight), or the following afternoon (with 30 hours of offgassing before my flight).
Waiting till the next day means paying for an extra day for a rental car, an extra night in a hotel, and an extra 24 hours away from my family. But of course, none of that is worth getting bent over.
I'm usually very conservative when it comes to avoiding DCS and don't have any interest in pushing my margin of safety, so my working assumption here is that if I do the morning BHB dive, I'd need to wait until the following afternoon to fly out.
But I thought I'd pose the question here on the off chance that the experts would say that it's totally fine, given the shallow depth of the dive and minimal nitrogen that I'd absorb.
Note: the day before the BHB dive, I will be diving in Key Largo, with my last dive ending mid-afternoon, about 24 hours before my theoretical flight. Not sure if this would make a difference.