Depth Statics

[JasonWelbourne]

I don't often get to freedive with assistance, but I did this week, and one of the things we practiced was statics @ 10m in a Free Immersion type setting. It's funny because until quite recently I have been locked into this pattern of making dives to any depth that last 1:10 +/- 0:10. It seems like there is a timer in my brain that sends out the alert at just the right time for me to surfance within the same interval regardless of how long I THINK I have been down. So last time I dove with a buddy I tried these statics @ depth and I managed a 1:30, and was very happy to have broken my pattern. This time, I managed a 2:10. Very happy with this as I contemplate what I am capable of. I was still pretty cozy @ 2:10, but I had set off some sort of alarm in the mind of my diving buddy, and as he was coming down to investigate, I figured it must be time to surface.

My dry statics pb is just over 5:00 and my normal dry statics are around 3:30.

What I would like to know, if there are other people that practice statics at depth, is what is the ratio between your avergae depth static times and your average dry static times.

 

[fpernett]

Hi Jason
That's one of the freedivings activities that I love the most. I call it hangings. Unfortunately I can't do it as often as I wish. I don't match it with my surface statics but it help a lot on it, you will improve your surface statics. I usually made it at 25 or 30 meters for around 1' of bottom static. At 10 meters I use to make 3' statics. My brother practice what I call extreme hangins, 40" secs hanging at 50 meters and 2' hangings at 45 meters.
I think you have to be carefull with this practice, explain your partner what are you going to do, in order to make the safety arrangements (avoiding that he comes earlier to the joining point). You have to take care of total dive time in order to keep your surface interval two or three times this value, in order to avoid DCS. Of course, this is not a problem if you keep it at 10 meters (wish is my advice).

 

[Bill]

Jason
For a few years I've done one dry static at 95-105 of max and one 'hang' at 15 meters every week except Jan/Feb this year. 15 meters was chosen to stay in sight of the safety. The answer, for me, is 2 to 3 or 66% with one warm up dive, no packing and running the clock from sfc to sfc. I slowly increased the time until samba last year. Be very careful if you have high CO2 tolerance. When you get used to them, you will be able to hold way to long at depth and guarantee a blackout on the way up. My one samba felt easy the whole way, so I took it as a warning and changed the warm up completely.
Aloha
Bill

 

[pat fish]

I think I'ain't exactly the right person to talk about my own experiences here when I read about 2' statics at 45m... I never did more than 30" at any depht.
Anyway: some training partners who did clinics with Umberto told me he was doing 6' statics at 20m. Might be a little exaggerated, but even 5 would impress me. :martial

 

[Will]

How those stories get around! In truth Umberto went to sleep lying on a wreck we have here at 15m, and was woken up after 6' by the first contraction. Anyone who doesn't think he is still on top of his game should have been in Sharm in May; after 5 days teaching and no specific training he pulled off 98m CW with a mono...

 

[pat fish]

How those stories get around! In truth Umberto went to sleep lying on a wreck we have here at 15m, and was woken up after 6' by the first contraction. Anyone who doesn't think he is still on top of his game should have been in Sharm in May; after 5 days teaching and no specific training he pulled off 98m CW with a mono...

holy cow if that aint deep...