We practice minimum deco of 1 minute at 30',20',10' as a discipline... and while not necessary on a dive like you mentioned (we rarely if ever do a 60' for 20 minutes) it does provide a margin of safety and maybe more importantly, training in proper ascents to deco stops.Originally posted by Hanz
But with the PADI system considering Im only at 60' and Im not even"required" to do a safety stop, Im up in one minute!
30 fpm ascent to stops except last stop to surface at 10 fpm
We stay at the stop for 40 seconds and take 20 seconds to move to the next stop... from the last stop to the surface we try to discipline ourselves to an extremely slow ascent and take a full minute to do so... this is not easy but with practice it can become second nature.... and unless you can do it on the weenie dives you will never be able to do it on the big dives.
Getting out of the water is not usually our goal anyway and certainly not after only 20 minutes of diving!