| I think that's why dives with that sort of deco obligation are generally done by people wearing undersuits that can keep you warm even when the suit floods. But you are talking about a *serious* flood here and at the worst possible time (after the obligation has been incurred). A zip might fail when you do it up or undo it but to randomly fail after an hour in the water seems unlikely...
However - for arguements sake if you were somehow in really cold water with no thermal protection you would have no choice but to get out of the water as you would die of exposure before getting anywhere near completing your stops. Depending on the surface cover you had the immediate ascent is not necessarily fatal - remember Mark Andrews had an uncontrolled ascent from some incredible depth once (like 270m or something crazy like that) and survived without so much as a skin bend; but then he was able to jump back in and do 10hrs of deco at 30m. In your scenario you'd have to get dry and changed and back in the water in a few minutes and that's a big ask. Most skippers need more time than that to get you out of the water... |