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| Originally Posted by MarkP I've not told anybody off. I've simply implied that comfort zones can be misleading. Most people are comfortable when driving within a mile of their home, exactly where most accidents happen. |
As much as comfort zones can be misleading, being over cautions or misseadind risk can be misleading.
I dont think depth is the issue at all,
if the dive is planned for and the gas is apprpriate with enough bailout or redundancy.
In some ways i feel that a 40m dive taken seriously is much safer than a 15m bimble done casually. I see loads of these types of dives - no redundancy (buddy / team or otherwise) and no thought to time planing. You can do a bouyant ascent much easier from 15m but i dont think that makes it safer.
i'd rather plan not to run out of gas, or as in Si's post yesterday have a team nearby to donate gas in case of equipement failure.