Do you care who sets the limits?

[Snash]

a major consideration for me on a liveaboard is where is the nearest chamber and how do you get there. If you are in the ar5e-end of nowhere then sensible limits are a must.

Snash

[purple vonny]

I agree with Scubee. A liveaboard has a tight schedule to plan 4 dives and travelling from site to site in a day.

[nickb]

Originally Posted by KyushuKim

The sand can often be 34--36 meters with good chances of sleeping sharks or blue spotted rays....

I'd happily dive 32% to these depths. BSAC use a max of 1.44, which is 35m, and I'm not going to be lying on the sand.

[JasonP]

Originally Posted by KyushuKim

.....and when you're on the boat they tell you.....

Maximum dive time 60 minutes.....
Maximum depth 30 meters (we only mix 32% as you don't need 28% or 30% because you're not allowed to go that deep!)

Those limits wouldn't really bother me. What did bother me was when I was in Airlie Beach in Australia and they had a 40 mins limit and an 18m depth limit. And that was on the first dive. The subsequent ones were 16m and 14m. I watched all these fish on the walls below me.

Jason

[Mark Chase]

Just dont act a twat and stay sorted and it will all usualy fall into place.


Day one the guide sees you in the water and diving properly and in no time at all your jumping in first and off whilst the others are fafing about kitting up. From first to last in can take a half hour so theres no problem doing your 70mins.

I dived twin independent 12s which raised a couple of eyebrows every time and was alowed to do my own thing.

On the other hand I have herd horror stories. My M8 George was almst banned fro diving for doing a couple of dips to 40m and he's an instructor.

These days Id rather book the whole boat and fill it with like minded divers or ensure I know the dive guide.

ATB

Mark

[Arthur Gerla]

Originally Posted by Scubee

I always understood that in many areas of the Red Sea (which is the only place i have had liveaboard experience) there was a limit of 30m anyway.

I assume you are referring to the 30 meter limit that the Red Sea Diving Association used to push and that had some force of law. That was changed to 40 meters about two years ago.

See also: http://www.emperordivers.com/redseaf...pic.php?t=1042 and http://www.redsea-divingsafari.com/index.php?p=63

Of course, dive operations are free to set their own limit at 30 meters and many do.

[KyushuKim]

Originally Posted by nickb

.........and I'm not going to be lying on the sand.

LOL....actually I often virtually am! Leopard sharks don't like it if you swim over them. To get good pictures it's best to get pretty much on their level and approach them from the front so they can see you.....





Both these guys were a bit below 30 meters......

[Arthur Gerla]

Originally Posted by KyushuKim

So you pay for a liveaboard trip. Book a large Nitrox tank which isn't that cheap with the fills as well.......

.....and when you're on the boat they tell you.....

Maximum dive time 60 minutes.....
Maximum depth 30 meters

This happened to me on a ´wrecks and reefs´ tour last month. On the first evening on the boat we were informed that the travel agent had set a limit of 30 meters, effectively putting the Rosalie Moeller out of bounds. We complained to the guides and boat owner, there was some discreet communication with the agent, the limit wasn´t mentioned again.

The downside was that two divers went into unplanned deco on single 11 liter tanks and had to spend a very long time dangling from the safety tank at three meters.

[purple vonny]

Originally Posted by KyushuKim

LOL....actually I often virtually am! Leopard sharks don't like it if you swim over them. To get good pictures it's best to get pretty much on their level and approach them from the front so they can see you.....





Both these guys were a bit below 30 meters......

Worth dipping down for! - Lovely!

[KyushuKim]

Originally Posted by purple vonny

Worth dipping down for! - Lovely!

Thank you!

Actually.....this was the one I was looking for......

Lying on the bottom almost touching him........