Horizontal Deco ??? .

[Bottle Maker]

The real reason is it looks good.

[wreckweasel]

What an utter load of bollox. Its to;

1. increase vertical drag, thus making you more stable.
2. position you appropriately for rapid movement
3. stop people finning as a crutch for poor bouyancy.

This bollox about different parts of your body decoing at different rates is laughable.

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by Bottle Maker

The real reason is it looks good.

As above, its bollocks but it looks great.


One of our lot often inflates his dry suit with the auto dump shut and hangs on the bubble vertical. Then he goes to sleep

Seems to be fine despite 180min+ dives in the 60-80m range.

Anything toward horizontal is fine, perfectly flat is a little unstable as if you start to go up for any reason you have the air in the wrong place in the suit and wing to dump it.

On a CCR flat is good because it keeps the work of breathing down on the counter-lungs, but apart from that its not a big deal.

ATB

Mark

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by Dave Abraham

I think the idea is that all tissues will off gas equally coz they are at the same pressure and if any bubbles do form they will not "rise" to your head giving you a brain bend. If that's the case we should do our deco inverted and lie flat on our backs for a couple of hours as soon as we leave the water.
Whenever possible I do my stops whilst swimming around mostly because it's less boring

[Dave Abraham]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

Fantastic...... green incoming
ps get a job

[Hickdive]

AFAIK originally when tables were developed for standard dress divers the stated stop depth was to be measured at 'chest depth'.

Horizontal is easier as depth changes seem to be slower and therefore easier to control but they're not as easy as what I used to to i.e. take a turn of the shotline round my leg, close my eyes and try to drift off in my mind, sort of meditating

On more than one occasion I did this upside down and would hang there like a big, fat, ugly bat. It wasn't as comfortable but the looks on the faces of other ascending divers was priceless!

[gwilson]

Originally Posted by Hickdive

AFAIK originally when tables were developed for standard dress divers the stated stop depth was to be measured at 'chest depth'.

Horizontal is easier as depth changes seem to be slower and therefore easier to control but they're not as easy as what I used to to i.e. take a turn of the shotline round my leg, close my eyes and try to drift off in my mind, sort of meditating

On more than one occasion I did this upside down and would hang there like a big, fat, ugly bat. It wasn't as comfortable but the looks on the faces of other ascending divers was priceless!

How do you know that when your eyes are closed?

[thehappychappy]

Originally Posted by gwilson

How do you know that when your eyes are closed?

Bats are blind, Like Stevies wife

Davie

[gwilson]

Originally Posted by thehappychappy

Bats are blind, Like Stevies wife

Davie

Hmm harsh but possibly very true

[Hickdive]

Originally Posted by gwilson

How do you know that when your eyes are closed?

'cos they would come up to me and poke me to see if I was alright, I opened my eyes then!