Deep Air

[The Doctor]

Hi all i was just wondering whats your deepest dive youve done on air. The deepest dive i have done was 70m in the channel and 87m abroad.

[And]

Hey, I think you can get a merit badge for that. You should send your name and details to the Darwin Awards

[TerryH]

Originally Posted by The Doctor

Hi all i was just wondering whats your deepest dive youve done on air. The deepest dive i have done was 70m in the channel and 87m abroad.

Well I've got to say you must have balls of steel.

Not because you've done 70/87m on air (any dimwitted moron with half a
brain can do that), but that you've come on here and said you have.

I suppose though that the definition of a moron would be somone who
didnt have a clue, so i'll take that back. Not balls of steel, just a moron.

TerryH

[T.D]

Now that is just idiotic and not something to be proud off!

[ray]

Mmmmm.

Must be a boy snorkeler.

2 popcorn post's in one night, must run better than dingers and garf's.

[Rick Huggins]

Originally Posted by The Doctor

I have done was 70m in the channel and 87m abroad.

I recently done 350M in around 8 mins!

Oh...I just realised you meant deep....shit; that is dumb!

[jptaylor9]

For me, 56m on the Murree in the mid channel and 60m on the Aida in the Red Sea (Brothers).

[EDIT] When I did these dives, people were just starting to talk about Nitrox & they had this crazy idea about taking a seperate cylinder of something called 50%!!!!!

[Juz]

57m in Cornwall in GOOD conditions and 58m out of Brighton in OK conditions.

55m in the South China Seas.

Would I do it again - Not in the UK. Well............ I doubt it anyway.

Juz

[johntemp]

58.7m this year in Gozo, such a great dive.... I think

[NotDeadYet]

Before everyone goes into hissy mode, and starts bandying "moron" about take a moment to reflect on the fact that trimix wasn't widely accepted until recently and that deep air diving, not tooooo long ago, was a reasonable way to perform deep dives if you were willing to live with the risks. I've been gas diving since the early 90's and the state of play now bears no relation to the way things were then. It was a different world. In the same way interferon and thalidimide were once wonder drugs, asbestos was the perfect for lining your walls and ceiling with and cigarettes were advertised with health benefits. Technical diving in its contemporary state did not exist when many of us started deep diving. Trimix might as well have been made from powdered unicorn horn.

For me, my deepest air dives were around 90m in Dorothea Quarry, 75m in a cave and 58m in the sea. The last 90m dive was horrible, I am pretty sure I wasn't far from a CNS hit, I could hear strange noises and had a metallic taste in my mouth which I'm told is a classic symptom. I totally misread my computer, I would have sworn it said 70m. Scared the shit out of me.

Call me a moron or an idiot if you like, I don't mind. I wasn't doing any of the dives so that I could brag about them or pretend I had balls of steel. I was diving fairly regularly to 70m in caves in France simply because trimix was not practical at that time. The deep diving in Dorry was to maintain the skillset (I have no illusions about narcosis adaptation, it is total bullshit, you don't adapt any more than a drunk thinks he's adapted to being behind the wheel of a car). And that was only 8 years ago. How things have changed.

Now, regardless of depth, I dive with a helium dil in my rebreather. The only air cylinder I have is the one I use for topping off my suit bottle. I'd agree that anyone who thinks such diving now is acceptable is maybe a few pork pies short of a ploughman's lunch.

Cheers,

Stuart