Uwatec problems

[FreediveWI]

It all depends on how you deco and what kind of gasses that you use.

One of the nice things with the new RGBM tables and the Decoplanner program from GUE is how it changes the repetative dive rules and the flying after diving times.

Only a few years ago it was a rule that you had to wait 48 hours after a deco dive to fly. IF you dive the right gas, which is NOT air, and you do the RIGHT deco, which starts much deeper than was previously done, you can get on a plane in just a few hours- because the bubbles never got to form in your body to begin with.

Back in the late 80's and early 90's we would dive deep in the morning and wait ALL DAY LONG for our surface interval before we would go back to do another deep dive at the end of the day. That dive would have to be shorter and have more deco stacked on because of the tables involved.

Now, with proper gas and tables, I can go to 200' and go right back, using the exact same tables, after only a 3-4 hour surface interval. Plus, I have less post dive fatigue so I know it is working. One of the BIG misconceptions about trimix diving is that it takes longer to deco than on air. When we start pulling longer bottom times at depth we can actually get out sooner on timix than on air.

RGBM tables are not about doing shorter dives, but doing safer, and longer, dives than we could do in the past.

The point is that I could see getting on a plane after 6 hours IF I had done the right deco on the dive.

I think that the article also pointed out that blind trust in a dive computer is a dangerous thing. After having many dive computers fail on me during deco dives, and having to go to my tables for bailout, I finally just switched to tables from the start and sold the computers to buy more tanks.


Jon