Scuba Divers GITT
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Not unless you plan on doing some technical stuff. The OW and Nitrox should be more than sufficient for recreational diving.
I'm just looking to be able to get down below 60 feet and stay down for as long as possible.
Enlighten me though- what would consist of "technical stuff"? Besides laying mines in Iranian ports and welding and that kind of shit.
Diving deep wrecks, staying down for extended periods, caving, etc.
I've done some technical deep dives on Tri-mix for recreation but didn't really care for the suspended decompression stops. Thirty minutes on the wreck at 320 ft. and 4-5 hours to ascend sucks.
Never got below 85 ft. on a mission and even that was rare. We usually did our thing from 30 ft up using rebreathers.
ETA...for what you want to do use Nitrox and a steel 120 tank. You can stay down at least an hour unless you're plowing up the bottom, lol. Plus you won't be exhausted when you're out of the water. Nitrox doesn't wear you out like oxygen.
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I just want to be able to dive a few of the shipwrecks off Morehead, although most of what I would be doing would be reef diving in the Caribbean.
There are dozens of wrecks you can dive out there from 135 ft or so and up. Be prepared for some currents around most of them. A few can get nasty but your dive master will check them out before you go down. He should at least.
I'm assuming you don't have a lot of experience, so...remember your nitrox depth limits and pay close attention to your computer. That 135 feet isn't nearly as intimidating in the ocean as it is in a quarry or deep lake, especially if the visibility is decent. You can get deeper than you intended and narcosis is a real thing. And don't rely on that computer to the point that you forget to use your dive tables. Electronics make us lazy.
If the military ever runs out of batteries we're all dead.
