#21085
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From NORTHEAST: How the hell do you dive to 240 on air.
With a pounding headache and tunnel vision! But then at that depth and as dark as it is they probably didn’t notice the tunnel vision :(
On my first dive trip to the tropics we were in Bonaire in 71 on a wall, this was before I had a depth gauge, it was bright, I could see the surface, so I couldn’t be that deep, right? My camera was being a PIA, the controls wouldn’t move and I was too narced to realize I was well past the Ikelite’s max operating depth! The DM said I was at 170’. At 240’ I would probably given away my reg to a fish :(
I’m guessing they had a drop line or marked the anchor rode so they could make their stops coming up, I don’t know if they hung bottles along the route or not.
Their 1/4" wetsuits would be 1/8" at that depth, if they had a farmer John then maybe a 1/4" on the body :( Drysuits were not a thing, I used one in the 60’s that was basically a fishermans exposure suit with a roll seal like a drybag which leaked at 40’. Waterproof zippers hadn’t been invented yet and there was no way to add air. Which brings up another piece of equipment, a BC then would have been an airline vest, no power inflator. My old USD Conshelf didn’t even have an extra port for an inflator :(
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