DeepSeaDan from Southern Ontario Cananda conveying greetings & salutations!
I'm in my 35th year of diving this year. Ten of those years I spent as a commercial deepsea oilfield / Marine construction diver, working in offshore oilfields & marine installations around most of the planet. All that diving was done with gases supplied from the surface to a diving helmet via umbilical. We also used saturation technology regularly to work economically & safely at great depth. Didn't do much scuba in those years as one becomes reliant on that physical connection to surface. When I finally quit "the life", I had a slow transition back into self-contained diving - I was for ever feeling for my umbilical for the first few years!
Now I teach recreational diving & enjoy it immensely. I try to limit my depths these days as I racked up thousands of hours of exposure time in my working years ( without a single bend! ) - I reckon it's best not too push one's luck too far.
I look foreward to discussing diving & learning new things from all the good membership here in the Deeperblue world...
Best Fishes,
DSD
I'm in my 35th year of diving this year. Ten of those years I spent as a commercial deepsea oilfield / Marine construction diver, working in offshore oilfields & marine installations around most of the planet. All that diving was done with gases supplied from the surface to a diving helmet via umbilical. We also used saturation technology regularly to work economically & safely at great depth. Didn't do much scuba in those years as one becomes reliant on that physical connection to surface. When I finally quit "the life", I had a slow transition back into self-contained diving - I was for ever feeling for my umbilical for the first few years!
Now I teach recreational diving & enjoy it immensely. I try to limit my depths these days as I racked up thousands of hours of exposure time in my working years ( without a single bend! ) - I reckon it's best not too push one's luck too far.
I look foreward to discussing diving & learning new things from all the good membership here in the Deeperblue world...
Best Fishes,
DSD
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