In a message dated 6/15/2004 9:57:23 AM Central Standard Time,
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I suspect that few, if any of the experienced divers in this list actually
comply with a strict policy of continuous breathing, adherence to deco
tables or deepest dive first.  The most interesting thing about this thead,
at least to me, is that it is based on confirmation of what most of us have
evolved into doing on our own anyway.
Hello all,

Sorry about being a little late about coming into this thread. I was trained
in the old school also that you do your deepest dive first and as a rule thats
the way I plan my diving day. It's easy for me to do it this way because of
the locality of the spots. As all of you know when you do a deep dive its
usually not as long therefore the slow tissues don't get as saturated as several
shallow longer duration dives.

When I was in Truk Capt Lance said something that kinda surprised me. He said
hes never had anybody get bent on the deep dives but its the multiple shallow
dives that creep up and get you because of slow tissue loading.

I'm sure that most of the experienced divers on this list has become
accustomed to doing things their own way based on individual applications to their
particular environment.

Take care,

Ray