PerroneFord
Contributor
All dives are decompression dives...
You've been doing mandatory decompression dives all along. You were just doing the mandatory stop on the surface instead of in the water. I prefer to do mine in the water.
But now that you're actually THINKING about what you're doing, and what you have been doing, you are starting to understand why technical divers take so much more gas to breathe, and why they do those stops even on lesser dives than you've been doing.
So here's a question for you. Assume for a moment that you were diving your new way, and wanted to do the microbubble stops. And assume that just as you were about to begin your ascent, your buddy came to you and signaled OOA. With what you had left in your tank, could you have safely gotten your buddy and yourself to the surface? Or would you have had to break your new "safer" dive plan to get you home before you ran out of air? And if you would not have had enough, how could you dive in the future to make SURE you had enough for this kind of emergency? And yes, I know you have a 19cuft pony. Factor that in if you want.
You've been doing mandatory decompression dives all along. You were just doing the mandatory stop on the surface instead of in the water. I prefer to do mine in the water.
But now that you're actually THINKING about what you're doing, and what you have been doing, you are starting to understand why technical divers take so much more gas to breathe, and why they do those stops even on lesser dives than you've been doing.
So here's a question for you. Assume for a moment that you were diving your new way, and wanted to do the microbubble stops. And assume that just as you were about to begin your ascent, your buddy came to you and signaled OOA. With what you had left in your tank, could you have safely gotten your buddy and yourself to the surface? Or would you have had to break your new "safer" dive plan to get you home before you ran out of air? And if you would not have had enough, how could you dive in the future to make SURE you had enough for this kind of emergency? And yes, I know you have a 19cuft pony. Factor that in if you want.