So I'm looking for constructive or not criticism from old school divers that dove in the 80's and have kept up with the modern times. on a recent dive, we were called reckless, stupid and crazy. We typically dive 130 to 150 in the deeper lakes where there is something to see. Last year we ended up at 170. Yes we monitor our air supply. So we decided to set our limit this year and try to do 200. No deeper. We made dive plan, planned our stops, air supply, had redundant systems, three computers, and did our dive. We ended up turning back at 190 when we became uncomfortable with the change between 180 and 190. We decided our depth limit would be 170 or less. Some of our small local community of educated divers, appalled at what we dared to do, called us the before mentioned names and started giving us all the horror stories of divers that take out their mouthpiece remove their mask and swim down never to return. My defensive response was to remind them that all the Andrea Doria plates on ebay were gathered on air, some died, but today divers are spending hundreds on merit badges, thousands on equipment, and still die. So, was I as reckless as they say, or are divers as uncomfortable in the water as I think they are?
On the brighter side, the hoses on my Phoenix didn't collapse like they say they will.
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