Quote: (Originally Posted by
Drmike)
My approach to deco planning is: in areas we know very little, its best to be conservative.
Ergo, deep and bounce dives, Heliox dives (or near as damn it) I do very conservative deco. Who cares if I have to stay in the water a few hours longer than may be necessary- when you look at the risk V reward of a bad bend a few hours is not at all significant in my opinion.
I suspect habitual chasing of shortest deco times will greatly increase risk of injury eventually where as carrying out conservative deco times just means some bastards more likely to have ate all your damn food! (be careful when using hobbits as support divers!]
Mike,
This is my thought also......
I was really surprised to hear they used less He than we did not to mention if they had their S95 bailout blended to 10/90!! Somehow I don't think they did.....
Makes you wonder what would have gone through their minds had the needed to use it!!!
Funny you should mention about the hanging there doing extra deco...... Every time I cleared one computer and looked at the other and saw it still had more time to run had me thinking of these words of wisdom.......
I have to say my breakfast was always there waiting for me when I returned.....even if it was after lunch
Regards,
Lance