For all divers, especially cavers

[jtivat]

Probably, like most of us explorers in the early 90's we all used air. I remember doing 300 Ft plus dives on air, with only air for deco.
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Did you guys even know what partial pressure was back then?

 

[Mako Mark]

Deep air is not dead yet, even though it would be nice if it was. If helium is not available, I will still do 200-240 on air if needed.

Remember they shot the show in 1995, not 2005.

Thanks for that post Curt, reading all those other comments made me feel like such an old timer..

Did you guys even know what partial pressure was back then?

(sighs)

no, they only invented Partial pressure recently..

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[Scubaguy62]

is this the show where the one fella was recovering from a cold?


if so, i saw it and could'nt help but think, why?

Yep, and he's the one who didn't make it. The funny thing is that throughout the dive, it appeared he was ok when they reached 250 feet, but when it came time to ascend, he continued to sink. Could it have been he was too narced to start swimming up before venting off his dry suit? Perhaps, but we'll never know. His dive partner swam down to get him to 280 ft, but he had already passed out and spitted out his reg. It was his fourth dive while his partner had already done 20. Pitty!