| Hi all
30 metres is nothing if you have to walk it horizontally but stand it on end and have to swim it at a controlled rate and it's a whole different ball game !
I try to configure my gear for redundancy but still only dive a 12l + pony. 30 mtrs I consider deep but even more than the depth I'd consider the conditions more important and in that I would also lump in your buddies - do they have the capacity for self-rescue when the brown squidgy stuff encounters the fast twirling yokeymebob ?
I think some of the greatest risk comes from unenvisaged adverse conditions - viz / current etc as oposed to depth per se; or when a buddy requires help and then your own capacity to complete the dive as originally planned is compromised to possibly dangerous limits.
When this happens then the surface seems a long way away regardless of the actual distance.
Chris |