Hello from NY FingerLakes

[Jon]

DCS is a matter of time, depth and surface intervals. It doesn't matter if you take one breath or thousands you can still get bent. As a general rule of thumb your surface interval should be twice the length of yur bottom time. On dives below 100' the surface time should go up to around 8 minutes- or so.

Another good way to get bent is to freedive after a scuba dive- since you'll still have bubbles in your body from the previous scuba dive.

When your freediving you can descend and ascend much fast than any scuba diver can. I can round trip a 100', without a scooter, in less than a minute. Once you add the speed of the scooter in, which is much faster since you have no bulky scuba gear slowing you down, and suddenly you can spend so decent time on a wreck.

Here's some footage from some "toy" scooters- a real one will go three times as fast. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rc1t836oq0]YouTube - Freedivapalooza (vid 1) - 2004[/ame]

Jon

 

[Linda]

Thanks, Linda. Macho??? You carry 2 steel bottles! Call me a wimp (pansy? How do you say that in Swedish?) but let's see...would I rather be diving in 0 degrees with 6' viz or spring fed warm water with 60' viz...hmmm let me think. My goal, if I have anything to say about it, is for my wife and I to move to Florida and enjoy ourselves. We can ride our horses and then jump in the water when it gets too hot. Now that's living. No offense Sanso.

You can carry the bottles on your back between the car and your divingspot for a short distance while trying to think comforting thoughs of how much lead (saltwater since our lakes really isn't fun) you would have to carry in your hands if you had alubottles. By some funny reason almost all of our divespots tend to be a really short walk.. You can also wish to use as little air as one of my buddys, I think he's holding his breath half of the time considering how little air he uses on our 1 hours dives

But your dream sound wonderful! 60 meters viz... Only time we got really good viz is in winter but still most of my dives tend to be when it's a little bit warmer

 

[vali]

great footage jon

 

[sanso]

... then jump in the water when it gets too hot. Now that's living. No offense Sanso.

None taken, I'm with You on this and just now looking for a nice and warm place to live, work and dive at.

 

[ScubaBilly]

Thanks to everyone for your replies...I'm not getting much work done but having fun chatting with you guys & gal. Jon...enjoyed the vids, looks like lots of fun using the scooter. Not sure I'm sold on freediving...I like to have my air close by, even purchased an EAS just in case...call me paranoid ;-)
Good luck, Sanso, we deserve nicer weather in our, ooops, my old age.

 

[ScubaBilly]

Aaagghhhhhh! A nor'easter blew through last night and dumped 3" of snow and it's still coming down. Very pretty but too late in the spring for this shi...stuff.