Thats the final confermation then.
I dive a bungied wing
I have my long hose off the left post
I sling my stages one each side
I dont use a spool
I dive with almost any one
I use 85/15 for deco coz I am concerned about holding 6m in the English Chanel in a force 6.
I AM A STROKE
I like the bit where he said if you arive at 6m and find conditions are too rough for you to hold the stop you shouldent have done the dive. WHAT? Do the write that on your grave stone or somthing.
How bout putting it like this: If you arive at the dive site and conditions are a bit rough (ie 50% of UK dives 80% in the winter/spring months)Then all the divers on 100% stay on the boat and all the 85% strokes get to do the dive
Surley you can deco off of any thing. I have seen good divers doing 50m stuff and using 50% all the way up from 21m. You can deco off air if you like it just takes a long time. I did a 45min deco on air after a deep dive once as there was no access to deco gas on the islend. I spent it pootling up and down the reef and was quite happy to do it. I just wouldent do it hanging in green soup in the UK.
Also the point on presure of fills. Getting a good 100% fill is often hard. I like 200bar plus in my 7ltr rich deco tank and often have 250. Getting this with 100% is not easy. OK I come up with 100+ bar of deco gas but if somthing goes wrong on the dive I might need that one day. I also use that 100 bar on the next few shallow dives as a on boat safety tank. I dont see how breathing 85% can be worse for you than not breathing 02 at all after an incident.
But hey what the #### do I know. I am a Stroke
Just to make sure can any one tell me where to get some good split fins?
Mark Chase