An on-going dialog around the science of extended range diving.
By Bill Nadeau
This blog invites the diving community to explore together and collaborate on the finer intricacies of diving sciences.
In extended range diving, compromising on any piece of your air delivery system can result in serious problems. Don’t be complacent because ‘it is only your back up’. Think of it this way; would you compromise on a back up parachute if you were a skydiver?
Read MoreNecessity is the mother of all invention; however, there is a recurring predicament that transpires periodically. In our striving to extend limits comfortably, we have left ourselves vulnerable to something I call ‘gadget pandemonium’. It is true that redundancy is the basis from which we design any SCUBA configuration, be it a 20 meter (66 foot) dive or 100 meter (330 foot) dive. Yet this fundamental safety feature can also be a killer and the defence is not always so straightforward.
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