How long can you and still feel completely comfortable?

[gman]

How long can you stay under and still feel completely comfortable?

I am getting back into the sport, as some of my earlier posts have indicated. I am doing stuff strictly in my home above-ground pool. I laid on the bottom yesterday for two minutes which I was pretty pleased with considering how long it has been since I have held my breath underwater.


Today I decided to swim. Distance is meaningless for me right now, but I was wondering how long y'all can stay under and still feel absolutely comfortable and confident. I swam around in circles (doing laps on the bottom) and came up at about the 1:05 mark without any pain or discomfort. Again I am not totally displeased with this as I am in week one of my comeback. Due to safety concerens I will not be able to push my envelope at all. I am going to concentrate on increasing my comfort zone.


I apologize if I am picking this apart too much. The last time I dove I really did not give any thought to much of anything I did. I just went and did it. Well now I am older and have way more free time to cogitate on things. If my questions have made any sense at all, I would love to hear some input.

Thanks again,
Gary

 

[TNdiver]

Your question made perfect sence, but i dont know that theres really any way to answer it fairly. The time a person is comfortable with would changed day to day, and even dive to dive. There are really to many factors involved, water temp, diet the day before, stress (not being able to relax fully) just to name a few. Also many peoples idea of comfortable would be different. Some people just a contraction or two is more than they can handle. Other people handle 50 or 60, so for them i would say they probably consider 10 or 15 contractions as still comfortable. Also, if you are looking to compare your times to other peoples times to judge your ability thats really not a good comparison to try to make. Their bodys are too different. Different lung capacity, hemocrit (sp) levels in their blood, CO2 tollerance, how well they handle contractions, etc. That being said, I'll still answer your question. My pb dry static is 3:30, My pb wet is around 2:30. On a good day i can do 1:30 or so comfortably wet (bottom of a 2 foot pool) about 4.75 liter lungs last time i checked.

 

[gman]

Thank You. I had not give much thought to the differnet factors that would be involved from one day to the next. But they make perfect sense now that you mention them.

 

[SEDATE]

i never test it in the pool but in sea at -6m i did many times 3:45 minute fixed stay very easly the best 4:02 i have done and trying to break at 5+ ..next year of course all people doing on the surface holding breath my aim is to achive in -6m in the sea to stay.,if you find a good trick to stay more without getting black out ., please post it by p.m

 

[DeepThought]

I hope you have a proper partner who knows FREEDIVING-SPECIFIC safety procedures.
On that point, I think it is easier to blackout doing statics at depth compared to surface statics.

 

[SEDATE]

I hope you have a proper partner who knows FREEDIVING-SPECIFIC safety procedures.
On that point, I think it is easier to blackout doing statics at depth compared to surface statics.

micheal., not diving alone.,
thnx