Quote: (Originally Posted by Alastair)
- 1 minute for each 10 metres of ascent
- Include pauses at 80% of maximum ATA's and pause every 3 metres thereafter (Note you don't slow your rate down particularly just pause to ensure you are still in control)
21 Pause (and pauses every 3m until 9m)
Al
in your example, you'd "pause" 4 times at 21, 18, 15 & 12 metres.
So a pause of even one second's length of time at each depth wouldn't result in significant extra time overall, for the purpose of this calculation.
But is there ever a need to stop / pause for longer than a second at 80% (or any other % of ATA) depending on the maximum depth/dive time? Or is this a topic for tech courses?
vid