SAC'ed: A Study on Surface Air Consumption Rates

It's time to break out those dive logs! http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ima...geenduiker.gif

I'm conducting a study on surface air consumption rates for a college research paper. My goal is to see what factors most greatly affect a diver's SAC Rate by conducting a survey asking for limited information about your dives. Specifically, I am asking for age, gender, height, weight, if you smoke, how many dives you have, information about your earliest logged dive, information about your most recent logged dive and how fast you estimate your mile/1.5km run time was at the time of each.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SACed...nsumptionRates

This link leads to a survey I created for this project. I would greatly appreciate it if you were to fill it out! Not that I am asking for personal information, but participant's responses will not be disclosed anywhere.

I plan to publish the results on what i find in the next month or two. Then you all can figure what you need to do to improve that SAC Rate! And if you just happen to get a friend to fill this out too, it would be alright... http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ima...es/biggrin.gif

You'll want to make sure this is a large enough sample.

I have met both ends of the spectrum (overweight, smoker, awesome SAC : healthy, non-smoker, crappy SAC : and both opposites).

It will be nice to see the data collected.

Definitely! I'm doing my best to collect responses, but I think I started early enough to get a decent amount. Depending on the number of results I get, I may only choose to test the correlation between two major variables instead of multiple tests, but the results should be interesting!

I'll definitely post what I find out, but it's going to be another month or two until then lol.