ChrisEdwards
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Thanks for all the replies, I appreciate your concerns about me being in the pool by myself. My pool is very small and only 6 feet deep in only a very small area.
One thing I did notice was that my mouth did not get dry, in the pool, like it did on my two resort dives. I think this plus not doing any activity at the bottom of the pool, other than propelling myself around slowly with my fingertips probably didn't help the situation. I also had nothing to capture my interest, such as fish and pretty coral. I did practice swapping between my primary regulator and the octo several times, repositioned my gauges to various D clips and did the same for the location of the octo. I did about 20 mask drills, removing it, putting it back on, flooding it, etc.
After 40 minutes, I still had 2100psi left and that was after some serious purging, playing with both my primary and secondary regulators. I wanted to get the tank down to 500psi to try and figure out my weight requirements, so I could at least be in the ball park. This I realised would have taken forever using the purge valves, so I aborted, due to boredom.
One thing I did notice was that my mouth did not get dry, in the pool, like it did on my two resort dives. I think this plus not doing any activity at the bottom of the pool, other than propelling myself around slowly with my fingertips probably didn't help the situation. I also had nothing to capture my interest, such as fish and pretty coral. I did practice swapping between my primary regulator and the octo several times, repositioned my gauges to various D clips and did the same for the location of the octo. I did about 20 mask drills, removing it, putting it back on, flooding it, etc.
After 40 minutes, I still had 2100psi left and that was after some serious purging, playing with both my primary and secondary regulators. I wanted to get the tank down to 500psi to try and figure out my weight requirements, so I could at least be in the ball park. This I realised would have taken forever using the purge valves, so I aborted, due to boredom.