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dennydiving · March 19th, 2007, 06:01 PM

Dear All

Having now signed up for fundies and eventually aiming to go onto tech 1 then GAS is likely to become an even bigger expense. At present I am IANTD Trimix and probably doing 12-15 trimix dives a year- rest on Nitrox mostly in the 25-30m range. I would like to move onto deeper diving but only with like mined people. Having done depper dives with people on air and people on rebreathers then I would be much more comfortable in a team. Whilst the air people were experienced I will not dive to these depth on air. I don't know enough about rebreathers to form an opinion but in order to be safe would require considerable training -hence they are not on my list,I would rather have other divers on a set up identical to mine. I did IANTD trimix with 2 rebreather divers in Dorothea and felt very lonely!!

Whilst I am happy with my training things could be better - hence going DIR.

How do you currently find the gas logistics and costs for a typical weekend. I am assuming standard gases 21/35 and 2 trimix dives over a typical weekend. Diving Weymouth and Plymouth I would of thought was fine but what about locations further afield?

Is it worth having 2 twinsets - one for Nitrox and one for mix so that you can do two dives a day. Must admit that this seems like the best plan, seperate sets for each respective gas- but is this overkill???

Thanks

Ian

March 19th, 2007, 06:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
dennydiving(Offline) New Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: chalfont st peter Posts: 48	GAS planning for weekends Dear All Having now signed up for fundies and eventually aiming to go onto tech 1 then GAS is likely to become an even bigger expense. At present I am IANTD Trimix and probably doing 12-15 trimix dives a year- rest on Nitrox mostly in the 25-30m range. I would like to move onto deeper diving but only with like mined people. Having done depper dives with people on air and people on rebreathers then I would be much more comfortable in a team. Whilst the air people were experienced I will not dive to these depth on air. I don't know enough about rebreathers to form an opinion but in order to be safe would require considerable training -hence they are not on my list,I would rather have other divers on a set up identical to mine. I did IANTD trimix with 2 rebreather divers in Dorothea and felt very lonely!! Whilst I am happy with my training things could be better - hence going DIR. How do you currently find the gas logistics and costs for a typical weekend. I am assuming standard gases 21/35 and 2 trimix dives over a typical weekend. Diving Weymouth and Plymouth I would of thought was fine but what about locations further afield? Is it worth having 2 twinsets - one for Nitrox and one for mix so that you can do two dives a day. Must admit that this seems like the best plan, seperate sets for each respective gas- but is this overkill??? Thanks Ian Last edited by dennydiving; March 20th, 2007 at 01:56 PM.