What's your SAC rate?

[grazie42]

Here in Sweden I´m around 0.45, for some reason I´m usually slightly lower when in doubles. Guess it´s a bit lower still in warm water but while it´s always nice to get the SAC lower, I´m pretty happy with it where it is right now...

 

[Mike Veitch]

always makes me chuckle how many people actually know their sac...

me?

no clue...

 

[OE2X]

Mine (same dive) was 0.65, I'm twice the size of Lynne, and maybe a tenth the diver she is . . . maybe.

But, this was the first time since I started diving with her in May that my SAC was less than double what hers was.

I'll take that . . .

That's cause you are pushing around those doubles. If it weren't for that you'd be keeping up with Lynne.

Mike - you warm water divers even breath?

Mine - normal conditions - .30 to .34 I noticed it didn't change at all from diving with a drysuit to diving with a 3 mil in Fla in Florida.

 

[OE2X]

Maybe I should try it with my camera up in Fiji and see how low it gets.

The way Uncle Pug got me to slow down was to hand me a magnifying glass and look at things that way. Now I'm a tortoise on dive sites and I see way more. My longest dive on a single tank was 185 minutes on a HP130 tank @3400 psi. Came up with 1000 psi which would have let me stay down for another hour or so. Max depth 29'.

 

[CheddarChick]

Or ya got dumb people like me who don't know how to determine the sac rate... Any help boys???

 

[grazie42]

This is a link, there you´ll find the data needed to determine your sac:
http://www.spearfishing.org/bruces_tips/java/sac.html

Now you just need to go out and dive to gather some data, life´s never easy is it?

Edit: I googled that and looking a bit closer, the page says avg. depth, it makes sense to stay at a constant depth and just do the calcs for the time spent and gas used at that depth...

 

[TSandM]

That's cause you are pushing around those doubles. If it weren't for that you'd be keeping up with Lynne.

The rate I posted WAS in doubles

 

[rakkis]

http://www.scubaboard.com/showpost.php?p=2453048&postcount=18

 

[shoupart]

Probably the only reason that I know my SAC rate is because the downloaded dives from my Cobra computer caculate and display it. Otherwise, I'd have no clue what I was talking about.

 

[*Floater*]

always makes me chuckle how many people actually know their sac...

me?

no clue...

It's really helps to know for planning deco and cave dives.

Mine is about 0.4-0.6 depending on the conditions and how much I have to work.