> >
> > What do you go that deep to see?
>
>Wrecks, mostly. Big boats sail over deep waters. Big boats which sink tend
>to do so over deep waters too.
Sounds too cold for me. I only dove once when I wasn't cold around the
neck, waist, wrist and ankles. Of course almost all my diving was in
northern lakes with a nasty thermocline. Great Lakes wrecks draw a lot of
people, but it's too cold for me. A couple years ago I found a rental suit
that fit! We were swimming with manatees, and I was nice and warm with no
leakes.
>(The alternative is using rebreathers, which allow you to reuse your
>expired gas (after removing the CO2, obviously). You can have hours of
>bottom time with those, on a relatively small cylinder, and you can
>optimize your deco since you'll always be breathing as O2 rich a gas as
>possible at a given depth. I've never done that, but it's next on the list
>of "things to try")
I've seen Coustou do that on a few of his TV shows. Having started diving
back in '69 before all the encumbrances like BCs, I find scuba less
enjoyable today. I prefer the freedom of snorkling now, it's more like
diving used to be.
gregg
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