HOW DEEP WOULD YOU GO ON AIR while SOLO DIVING IN A CAVE?

[a64pilot]

I think that there are quite a few instances where someone got very narced, and it was their buddy that called the dive / stopped things from getting bad.

[sdscdive]

270 has been my limit

[diverdarren]

I think that there are quite a few instances where someone got very narced, and it was their buddy that called the dive / stopped things from getting bad.

I would say that these types of incidents occur whenever divers with vastly different narcosis tolerance levels dive together;and the least tolerant diver is going beyond his own experience/comfort level.

[Curt Bowen]

today, maybe not more than 240 in a cave and maybe 300 in clear water

[darkdiver211]

Air is no longer an underwater breathing gas, period.

Thats what you think. Where I live the closest Nitrox is a 210mile round trip. And cost $14.00 per/cylinder and $45.00 for gasoline.

[a64pilot]

Thats what you think. Where I live the closest Nitrox is a 210mile round trip. And cost $14.00 per/cylinder and $45.00 for gasoline.

It ain't hard at all to "roll your own" with Nitrox, or tri-mix for that matter

[darkdiver211]

Thats true

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[phreaticus]

I'm with Curt...and ten-plus years older....so my #'s would be 200 cave and 250 OW......but I'd only do it if there was NO possibility of getting any He, and it was a once in lifetime, "bucket list" dive.
Did 100's of 300-plus dives on air in younger days.....the max keeps getting shallower....risk/reward, been there/done that issue becomes more of a priority!

[FW]

It ain't hard at all to "roll your own" with Nitrox, or tri-mix for that matter

In the US, maybe. It is hard to find O2 in third world countries, and next to impossible to get He. North Florida is the *only* place I have cave dived that has banked nitrox and normoxic trimix.