Padowan

Personally for dives over 60m I like to carry enough gas to get me back to the shallows, and not necessarily conduct all my deco. My assumption is that once there, I should have people around me with gas, access to gas staged on the station, or dropped from the boat, and in the event that the bailout was a scrubber breakthrough, rather than a total loop flood (the only 2 things I see causing me to permanently bail onto OC at depth) I would take the risk that if I ran out of carried OC gas, the drop in gas density, and reduced workload with being on deco in the shallows, I would seriously consider going back on the loop as I feel it would still perform. So an 80cuft of bottom mix, and either a 7L or an 80cuft of a mid-water mix (up to perhaps 50%) should get me back to the shallows, blowing some deep stops, where I do as much deco as I can, before calling for drop gas, using gas from a buddy or the station or switching back to the loop again.

In Janos's case, he had a loop flood, so had no choice but to conduct the whole deco on OC. The interesting thing about this is that the flood happened (or was noticed) at the end of the bottom time, my assumption on loop flood has always been that a misplaced o-ring or other significant leak would result in a flooded loop early on, maybe it's time to re-evaluate that assumption. However I know that my Inspo is more tolerant of water in the loop than the KISS, and I have easier options of getting the water out.

Food for thought for sure.

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