Archive for the 'Beginner' Category
I made my first dive with a dry suit in open water on December25th, 2005 off the east side of Big Mosquito Island in Jeju Korea. I had done a couple pool exercises the weekend before and figured it shouldn”t be a problem.
Our first dive was to 100 fsw. I was using Nitrox EAN 32 for this dive. The islands off this area of Jeju are old volcanic vents which the magma cooled and solidified in. Over a few millennium, the outer dome eroded off and left the solidified magma like a monolith rising from the sea bed almost 200 fsw below. This is wall diving. Read the rest of this entry »
Perhaps one of the most difficult concepts for beginning divers to grasp is Surface Air Consumption Rate or SAC. Don’t feel bad, many seasoned divers also have difficulty with this. So, what is it and why do I need to know it?
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