It was a little over 15l - but remember my body mass is correspondingly high at 90kg. TLC was down a bit from last time as I haven't been packing much over the last few months. However I was very happy to hear my RV was quite low, sort of puts paid to that persistent idea of packing increasing RV...
Interesting to hear the different approaches to rec diving. I usually just treat rec dives like sub-max comp dives. If I was going to give up comp diving and just spearfish (which is tempting at times...) I would probably train the same way I do now, only back off the intensity a bit. I.e. treating the training as a mechanical task to be performed in order to gain the 'performance headroom' that allows me to hang out at depth and enjoy my rec dives. Certainly not very Zen and sounds like drudgery, I know; however there is a certain pleasure in performing a mechanical task well.
I am wary of using FRC in the 'lite' sense as a way of simply reducing energy expenditure over a dive. It seems to me that you really need to use that PBP if you want to keep yourself safe. However I'm only scraping the surface of it and this is probably just natural wariness towards 'diving on empty.....'
Interesting to hear the different approaches to rec diving. I usually just treat rec dives like sub-max comp dives. If I was going to give up comp diving and just spearfish (which is tempting at times...) I would probably train the same way I do now, only back off the intensity a bit. I.e. treating the training as a mechanical task to be performed in order to gain the 'performance headroom' that allows me to hang out at depth and enjoy my rec dives. Certainly not very Zen and sounds like drudgery, I know; however there is a certain pleasure in performing a mechanical task well.
I am wary of using FRC in the 'lite' sense as a way of simply reducing energy expenditure over a dive. It seems to me that you really need to use that PBP if you want to keep yourself safe. However I'm only scraping the surface of it and this is probably just natural wariness towards 'diving on empty.....'