RoHo

[DIVE BUDDHA]

Originally Posted by Gram43

Do you need a goodiebag as well then.

it could be quite easily be filled to overflowing mate

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by Scu-bamboo

going up to Wastwater on sat evening, stopping over and diving sunday.
Just popping down to 40m, and then a nice pootle back up to the top

Nats, I really do hope you are joking. It has taken me nearly 7 years to go to 40m. This week I plucked up the courage to go to 44m on twin 12s with a stage of 60%. I plucked up the courage because I have spent several years training for it. It was a nerve wracking but rewarding dive because I was ready for it.

I really do hope you are joking, forgive me if you are. If you are not then for fecks sake who are you diving with who is letting you do this? Shame on anyone who encourages this.

Helen - I'm in Scapa on my hols at the moment but felt I needed to say this.

[Gram43]

Originally Posted by DIVE BUDDHA

it could be quite easily filled to overflowing mate

See, its amazing how much smut can be dragged out of a simple posting where quite an innocent question is asked about air fills from an LDS. You can tell what sort of minds we all have.

Sorry for the invasion Nat, but you'll know better next time.

I'm off, TTFN.

[endoman]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Nats, I really do hope you are joking. It has taken me nearly 7 years to go to 40m. This week I plucked up the courage to go to 44m on twin 12s with a stage of 60%. I plucked up the courage because I have spent several years training for it. It was a nerve wracking but rewarding dive because I was ready for it.

I really do hope you are joking, forgive me if you are. If you are not then for fecks sake who are you diving with who is letting you do this? Shame on anyone who encourages this.

Helen - I'm in Scapa on my hols at the moment but felt I needed to say this.

Here here, depth for depth's sake, what's the point? What redundancy is being used?

[Paulus]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Nats, I really do hope you are joking. It has taken me nearly 7 years to go to 40m. This week I plucked up the courage to go to 44m on twin 12s with a stage of 60%. I plucked up the courage because I have spent several years training for it. It was a nerve wracking but rewarding dive because I was ready for it.

I really do hope you are joking, forgive me if you are. If you are not then for fecks sake who are you diving with who is letting you do this? Shame on anyone who encourages this.

Helen - I'm in Scapa on my hols at the moment but felt I needed to say this.

I only have about 40 dry suit dives in my log book out of about 130. The deepest of which was to exactly 30m on the Rondo a few years ago. My deepest ever dive is under 38m in the Red Sea and that was only to gather up a wayward buddy.

It is all a bit worrying.....

Paul

[David P]

Cold, dark, Wastwater too. Not sounding like my idea of healthy...

(Though I have to admit my 21st dive was to 150ft in the Irish sea, on a 65cu ft tank, in 1975 - and I lived - but I can remember the dive still, and didn't much enjoy it, even though it was after a week's steady build-up...)

[Buoyant Babe]

I am having a fab time in Scapa. However, the diving is demanding and needs planning. It is new to me but I am ready for it now. I was cacking myself before my first 38m and 45m dives. These dives are to be taken seriously.

This shit souldn't be taken lightly. Moz tells me

[flying frog]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Nats, I really do hope you are joking. It has taken me nearly 7 years to go to 40m. This week I plucked up the courage to go to 44m on twin 12s with a stage of 60%. I plucked up the courage because I have spent several years training for it. It was a nerve wracking but rewarding dive because I was ready for it.

I really do hope you are joking, forgive me if you are. If you are not then for fecks sake who are you diving with who is letting you do this? Shame on anyone who encourages this.

Helen - I'm in Scapa on my hols at the moment but felt I needed to say this.

I would agree that deep for the sake of deep is not right.
What training is involved in deep diving? Padi? or Bsac? or iantd? how does some one get the knowledge so to speak?

And what advise could be given to those that will do what they feel is within there diving skills or abillities? rather than just saying dont do it for the sake of it some guidance in the correct way to approach the dive, could prove prudent.

Proper dive planning and a sound mental approach is key to all dives.

Me pesonally would recomend doing as i have the deep speciality, go with experinced divers and talk to poeple who for one reason or another have been to the edges of there limits, be this to save a buddy or just to go there....we all have our reasons!

[Moz]

THIS IS BUOYANT BABE POSTING UNDER MOZ - I was going to say something really profound at this point but instead I'm just going to say blahblahblahblahblahblah. Let Nats make her own mind up.


Anyone else who thinks it is okay to dive deep with no proper experience is a pump-faced-witch.

[Paulus]

Originally Posted by flying frog

Me pesonally would recomend doing as i have the deep speciality, go with experinced divers and talk to poeple who for one reason or another have been to the edges of there limits, be this to save a buddy or just to go there....we all have our reasons!

I too have the Padi deep speciality. But as you say knowing exactly where to find specific and comprehensive deep diving training is not easy if you aren't already in the loop.

I personally would like to take the INTD advanced nitrox and deco procedures course. But I don't do enough diving to warrant the expense of getting kitted up for that kind of stuff. I don't envisage having the time for it in the forseeable future either

Having been diving for a number of years now I notice that I am perhaps more conservative than ever before. I would not dream of planning dives to way over 30m without wholy adequate redundancy. Besides, my Aladin Smart Pro makes too many noises if I venture much beyond 30m for more than a very few minutes.

Of course on the day, temptation may lure us a bit further into our comfort buffer and I would never deride an experienced diver if they are happy to take a single 12 to 40m on a regular basis.

Sorry, I'm rambling all over Nat's thread.
Paul