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| Originally Posted by Diving Dude The elite crowd have left you alone. |
Hmm, I'm not sure who the elite crowd are. However, I don't think I'm one of them.
Anyway, I thought the report was interesting. I was struck by how I couldn't see the same thing happening to a non-GUE UK technical diver. The mindset was completely different. I would much rather dive with a decent buddy than solo, but even then, the idea that someone else is controlling my deco and my ascent rate is completely alien to me. If I was diving with someone, especially someone I didn't know, and they started going up too fast, I wouldn't go with them. Absolutely no way.
That said, 9m/min isn't fast. I know people trained a few years back that used to punch it up from depth at 20m/min. PADI standard ascent rate is still 18m/min.
Jason