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How Do Deep Wreck Divers Plan Their Dives?
Jun 11, 2025
How Do Deep Wreck Divers Plan Their Dives? In this podcast, I chat about dive planning and decompression management, sharing practical tips learned from real-world deep diving, not just those taught during technical diving training. I explain how I use my dive computer to ensure that I complete the right amount of deco and safely return to the surface. Divers Plan Their Dives. I also talk about my recent attendance at the Kernow Dive Festival, future diving plans, videos that I have in the pipeline and remind you how to win the excellent Orcatorch DC710 that I reviewed a few weeks ago - https://youtu.be/LVJ3RnWYBHk *Giveaway* If you want to be in the draw for the Orcatorch DC710 then you need to like my Deep Wreck Diver page or join the Deep Wreck Diving group. Anyone who does both will be entered twice! Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574229267789 Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1699048204345081 *Shearwater Overlay* My epic Shearwater Overlay comes courtesy of @EricStott and you can watch his two "how-to" videos here - Shearwater Telemetry Overlay Integration https://youtu.be/6wSGfA6RUgs?si=qLXhIKc5vK2hh79J - Enhanced Overlay components https://youtu.be/18rmFOhj4rc?si=_9lOv9h9WT9rdYM- *Highlights* 00:00 Introduction 01:23 Dive planning and decompression management 12:59 The brilliant Kernow Dive Festival 15:10 Diving the Goodwood and JR Parks 16:07 Orcatorch D710V tray and Insta360 Ace Pro 2
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Hello again everybody and welcome to
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another one of my podcasts. Today's
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subject is going to be dive planning and
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decompression management during the
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dive. This is a topic that I've been
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asked to do a lot and I've stayed clear
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of it a lot as well and the reason is
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that what I'm going to say is a bit like
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the CNS stuff. So, I'm going to tell you
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the way people or certainly the people
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that I dive with do it rather than the
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way it is taught on mod 2 or mod 3
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courses. And I've kind of explained a
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bit of the rationale and you get all the
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usual kind of uh truth and everything
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for me. Now, on one of my previous
0:41
podcasts, I got told off by somebody
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because before I did that, I then went
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and talked about a whole load of other
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things which weren't related to the
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subject. So, I'm not going to do that
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today. But what I am going to say is if
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you could hang on towards the end, I am
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going to talk about some other things.
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I'm going to talk about my visit to the
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Kerno Dive Festival, which was which is
1:01
the weekend that I've just had. I'm
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going to talk about some uh kit reviews
1:05
I've got coming up. I'm going to talk
1:07
about some competitions and I have got
1:09
an absolutely stunning prize down the
1:11
line and I'm going to talk about a bit
1:13
about some of the stuff that's happened
1:15
recently. Uh some of the newspaper stuff
1:17
and also my diving plans for the next
1:20
month or two. So that's all coming. But
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I'm going to cut to the chase now and
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talk about uh dive planning and
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decompression uh management. So um I'm a
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mod 3 instructor. So I've taught various
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different people, you know, using the
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the different syllabuses. I've I'm aware
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of the international standards and all
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those kind of things. So
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um the reason that I I've stayed clear
1:46
of this subject before is because what
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I'm going to say to you is very
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different to the way that you are taught
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in those courses. Now, you can take or
1:54
leave that. I'm just going to tell you
1:56
the way it is done by the people that I
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dive with and the way I do it myself. So
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if you were when you do your training,
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you will normally be taught about the
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importance of planning and the
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importance of choosing a bottom time and
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then calculating decompression plan. And
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normally you will calculate it based on
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a few different things. You will have
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the actual dive that you're going to
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plan. You then may plan to go a bit
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deeper. You may plan to go a bit longer.
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And you may plan to go deeper and
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longer. So um you will you know
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potentially have a number of different
2:29
plans and then normally based on the
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deeper and longer plan you would then
2:33
have a bailout plan as well which would
2:35
decide how much gas you need. So so
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that's the way that you are are taught
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to plan these kind of dives. So and
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nothing wrong with that. That's uh you
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know it's a good way of doing it and you
2:46
know it will uh give you awareness of of
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what's going on and all those kind of
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things. So um you know that is the gold
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standard for absolute certain. What do
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we do though? Well, normally if I'm
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going out on on a boat, um you will have
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a discussion with the skipper and the
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skipper will give you a run time. And
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typically for the kind of diving I do,
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that might be 2 and 1/2 hours. Um it
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might be 3 hours. The diving I've just
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been doing, I mentioned the Kerno Dive
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Festival, it was 90 minutes for those
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dives. Um but they were a bit shallower.
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So, um you'll get that information and
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then um really what you do during the
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dive is you have two pieces of
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information available to you. You have
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the amount of time that you've been down
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and then you have the computer giving
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you a TTS, a total time to surface,
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which is how the quickest that you could
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get to the surface if everything goes
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right. So, what you do is you use those
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two numbers to hit the runtime. So, as
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an example, if I am 25 minutes into a
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dive and I have 2 hours of TTS, I know
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that I'm going to be getting out of the
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water, give or take, round about 2 and
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1/2 hours. So, if I'm not at the bottom
4:04
of the shot starting my ascent at that
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point, I really want to be. So, that is
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a simple that's that's it. That is kind
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of what what we do. Um, and obviously
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there's a whole load of different things
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that have gone into that. One is, you
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know, by and large we've done quite a
4:21
lot of diving. So, you know, we
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understand roughly how much time you you
4:25
should be getting at the bottom, but
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there's also that understanding that you
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need to hit hit the run times. So, now
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there's a couple of things with TTS. So,
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which is obviously really important in
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the scenario I've just outlined. So, TTS
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is a perfect ideal world event. So to to
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achieve the the the time that's shown on
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the TTS, you need to extend at exactly
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the right rate that the computer thinks
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you're going to ascend. You need to do
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the stops at exactly the amount of time
4:55
and exactly the depth that the computer
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thinks that you're going to do them. And
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obviously you need to have the perfect
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P2 and all those kind of things. So
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clearly that's not going to happen
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because you know you are never going to
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be able to achieve those things. So the
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reality is that it is going to take you
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longer to get to the surface than the
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TTS that is shown to you at the bottom.
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How much longer is a really good
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question and um what I would say is you
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as a diver um become aware of um how
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good you are at following those TTS's.
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So for instance for me um I know that
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I'm going to do my decompression stops a
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bit deeper uh than than is on the TTS.
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So if it says 12 m so if my um sheer
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water is telling me I need to stop at 12
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m chances are I'm going to be stopping
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at 12 1/2 or 13 just because that's
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slightly easier to maintain that depth.
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Um equally I know that if the sheer
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water wants me to do a 3 m stop um and I
5:56
do have my last stop set to 3 m I am
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going to be probably be doing it at four
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or 4 and 1/2 mters um maybe even six
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depending on the circumstances. those
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will lengthen the amount of time to get
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you out of the to get you out of the
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water. So, um, how much longer? Well,
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difficult to
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say. What I do have in my favor, though,
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is um a piece of information that the
6:20
computer doesn't know, which is that I
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know when I get to my first
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decompression stop, I'm going to change
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my
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um P2 from 1.3 to 1.5. And therefore,
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I'm going to do most of my
6:33
decompression. uh I'm going to
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accelerate it. So what that means in
6:37
practice for me is that I know that I
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when I leave the bottom I'm going to
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achieve roughly the TTS that is uh that
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is shown to me. So that means for me if
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I'm doing a 2 and 1 half hour run time
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and I'm at the bottom of the shot, I've
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got two hours of TTS and I'm at the
6:54
bottom of the shot at minute 30, I am
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probably going to um get out the water
6:59
at 2 and 1 half hours. What I normally
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do is is leave a bit more of a fudge
7:04
factor in it than that. But that is that
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is what I do. That is the way that I
7:11
manage my decompression. You can see
7:13
that I haven't mentioned anything about
7:15
planning before I get in the water. Um
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so um I don't really do that. Maybe if
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it's if it's quite a deep dive, I will
7:25
um run a plan on my shear water or I'll
7:28
run a plan on multi deco to give me an
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idea of what minute on the dive I need
7:34
to be back at the shots. That's really
7:36
what I'm what I'm doing that for. Now,
7:39
anybody's an instructor, uh you know,
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people who write
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courses, yeah,
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people will tell you this is heresy.
7:49
This is this is wrong. You should have
7:51
slates, you should have run times, you
7:53
should have done your planning, all
7:54
those kind of things. And um you know
7:57
what, as I've already said, that's
7:59
entirely fine. It's not what I do. And
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I've done a lot of deep diving. So um
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and I the the the technique that I've
8:07
just told you, that is something I do on
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a lot of my dives. So um you know,
8:13
clearly for me, it works. And as I've
8:14
said many times on these kind of things,
8:16
this is big boys diving. you know, you
8:18
need to or big people's diving, I guess.
8:21
You need to um understand what you're
8:23
doing. You need to make your own
8:24
decisions. So, I wouldn't recommend
8:26
doing what I've just said there unless
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you are with somebody more experienced
8:30
or you've got the experience yourself.
8:33
So, the big question that people are
8:35
going to say to me is, "Ah, but how do
8:38
you know how much bailout gas you need?"
8:40
And that is a that is a really good
8:42
question. I'd kind of slightly turn that
8:44
round and say that any bailout scenario
8:48
has a whole load of um variables in it.
8:50
Now, some of them such as when you bail
8:52
out, what depth you bail out, all those
8:54
kind of things um you you can mitigate
8:57
by just going to the worst case
8:58
scenario. Get that. But the the the big
9:02
variable that you will never know until
9:04
you bail out for real is what is your
9:06
breathing rate going to be? Now in the
9:09
international standards in various um
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diver training programs they will give
9:14
you um breathing rates to use you 25 lit
9:19
a minute 50 lit a minute 30 40 whatever
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whatever it whatever it is
9:24
and you know it may be that that is what
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you'll breathe um it may be you'll
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breathe a lot less equally it may be
9:31
that you'll breathe a lot more
9:32
particularly obviously in certain
9:34
scenarios you know if you got a CO2 hit
9:36
you are going to be breathing like a
9:37
train for instance
9:38
So um even with all the best planning in
9:42
the world, you you you know there is
9:45
this huge variable in there that you
9:46
don't know. So what do we do about that?
9:50
Now I've talked about bailout on quite
9:51
quite a few videos and you know that
9:54
essentially we normally dive as a team
9:56
and therefore around us is a lot of gas.
10:00
So if I'm doing a a deep dive, I will
10:04
normally have a buddy with me between
10:06
us. We will have two alley 80s of deep
10:09
bailout gas. Whatever depth we're at, 80
10:11
m, 100 m, 120 m, there'll be two aliens.
10:14
And then for we will then probably have
10:17
between us a some sort of travel gas.
10:20
And we will probably have between us
10:22
some sort of gas that you can breathe at
10:24
20-ish meters. Now, but the big get out
10:28
of jail for us that kind of copes with
10:31
everything else is that coming from the
10:33
surface is a huge amount of bailout gas
10:36
and also in the team around us is a huge
10:39
amount of gas as well. So, in a bailout
10:42
scenario, what do we do for real? What
10:44
we do for real is we just breathe
10:46
whatever we can from whoever is around
10:48
us for as long as we possibly can till
10:51
we get till we're able to get out the
10:53
water. At that point, you throw away
10:55
things like run times. Um, you know, the
10:58
skipper doesn't really care at that
10:59
point. All they want is the diver to get
11:01
out the water water safely. So, really,
11:04
um, you're just breathing gas and
11:06
breathing gas and plumbing it, putting
11:08
it in computers, seeing what happens
11:10
until eventually you can get out of the
11:11
water. And in the worst possible case,
11:14
let's say you breathe everything around
11:16
you, which would be a pretty epic
11:17
achievement because around us is an
11:20
awful lot of gas. You then accept that
11:22
you are going to get out the water, get
11:24
on the boat, get on oxygen, and call for
11:27
help. So, that's that's I I did say it's
11:32
heresy, didn't I? And that's a bit of a
11:34
shock. And you know, people will
11:36
criticize that and probably some of the
11:38
things you're going to say absolutely
11:40
true, but that is that is what we do.
11:45
Um I guess the one other bit of planning
11:47
that I should mention that I haven't
11:48
mentioned already is selection of
11:50
dilluents and obviously we do select an
11:53
appropriate dilluent for the depth and
11:55
that's based on um you know narcosis
11:57
it's based on work of breathing gas
11:59
density all those kind of things and and
12:01
that is really important so making sure
12:03
that you you choose a sensible one and
12:05
that there's there's enough in there and
12:06
all those kind of things. So that is
12:08
really important. But I hope uh that was
12:12
interesting and useful and potentially
12:16
thoughtprovoking. So what I'm going to
12:17
do is I'm going to move on and talk
12:20
about some other stuff now. Now what you
12:22
probably notice is that since recording
12:26
the other stuff and this actually I
12:28
recorded the other stuff yesterday and
12:31
I've this bit of the video I decided to
12:33
re-record because I wasn't happy with
12:35
with with with what I'd done. So, you
12:37
will notice that the bit of video that's
12:40
about to come, I've had a haircut and
12:42
I've had a shave. Sorry, wrong. This bit
12:44
of video, I've had a haircut and a
12:46
shave. So, I'm going to be unshaven and
12:48
hairy in the next bit of video. But, um,
12:50
hey, please don't judge me too harshly.
12:52
Um, but also I hope you stay on for the
12:55
rest of it and hope you uh enjoy it.
12:58
Right. Okay. So that's that's uh deco
13:00
planning and
13:02
um management of of decompression and
13:05
management of tight surface. Um what the
13:08
other things I just want to talk to you
13:10
about first thing I want to talk to you
13:11
about is the Kerno dive festival. So
13:13
I've just come back from this and in
13:14
fact hopefully you can see that I'm
13:16
proudly wearing my Kerno 2025
13:20
um t-shirt. So for those of you who've
13:22
never heard of it, it's one of the best
13:24
kept secrets in British diving. It's a
13:28
um an it's run down here. Well, not down
13:30
here. I'm in Devon. It's in Cornwall and
13:33
uh near Penzance and it's been going for
13:35
20 something years. And basically what
13:39
it is is loads of British Aqua Club
13:43
branches bring their people and their
13:45
boats and their tents and all that kind
13:49
of stuff and they go to Cornwall and
13:51
into a campsite just outside Penzance.
13:54
and the people who run it who are
13:57
absolutely fabulous. The people who run
13:59
it um use all the boats and stuff that
14:01
have come down mix everybody up so
14:03
everyone's diving with different people
14:05
and they shuttle boats out to loads of
14:08
the local dive sites. It is it's a
14:10
fantastic fantastic thing and
14:13
um British of Aqua Club um at its very
14:17
best is a grassroots organization and
14:19
this is a grassroots um event. It
14:22
doesn't involve the hierarchy. Um, it's
14:25
just a load of people getting together
14:27
to do the thing that we all love. Now,
14:29
you might say, "What are you doing down
14:30
there, Dom? Surely they're all doing,
14:32
you know, reefs and 20 m dives and all
14:34
that kind of stuff." Well, the great
14:36
thing about the Kerno Dive Festival is
14:38
that they also try and cater for people
14:40
like me. So um they they put on um two
14:44
boats Saturday and Sunday and we went
14:46
out and did some um some deeper deeper
14:49
wrecks u 50 odd meters. So um you know
14:53
that's that's really nice at 90minute
14:55
run times. You know going back to our to
14:57
our subject earlier on and I um it was
15:00
great. Most of the often it gets blown
15:02
out so we don't get to do them. But this
15:04
this weekend we we had one day where it
15:06
was really lovely and um we I think it
15:10
was touch and go whether we should have
15:11
gone but anyway we went a great way
15:14
called the underwood which I've not done
15:15
before. Um lovely World War II casualty
15:19
diesel engineed um gun on the stern of
15:22
ammo boxes. We had fabulous fabulous
15:25
visibility and um I took in a guy who um
15:29
had not
15:31
um he' done his mod 2 course off in
15:33
Dorothia but he'd not dived in the sea.
15:35
So I took him in and we we had a great
15:39
dive actually. It was it was really
15:40
really pleasant. And then the second
15:42
dive, second day went to a wreck called
15:44
the JR Parks which is another World War
15:46
II casualty uh American Liberty ship. So
15:50
you know huge 7,000 ton thing. um quite
15:53
broken, but tons and tons to see down
15:56
there. Once again, stunning visibility.
15:58
Really, really nice dive and it gave me
16:01
an opportunity to test out a few things.
16:03
So, so I've
16:05
um I'm starting to get to that point
16:07
where people are sending me stuff, which
16:08
is which is really nice. Um and um so,
16:12
so Orc Torch, who obviously sent me
16:15
quite a few bits and pieces, sent me
16:16
this thing here, which is uh effectively
16:19
their their tray and a couple of video
16:21
lights. uh
16:23
D710V and they sent me that. So, I took
16:26
that down um on those dives and it's
16:29
fantastic that kit. It's really really
16:31
nicely made. Great video lights. If you
16:34
were looking for something to take with
16:35
you on holiday or whatever, that would
16:37
be fantastic cuz it packs down quite
16:39
nice and light. The lights are great.
16:41
All that kind of stuff. So, I'm going to
16:43
do a full review of that. But, it was
16:44
really nice. And the other thing I've
16:46
got is is this thing here which is um an
16:50
Insta um Ace Pro 2. So the very latest
16:54
one. It's got low light uh really good
16:57
low light capability. So I took that on
16:59
a dive and I actually took it on this
17:00
thing here which they also sent me. So
17:01
this is their kind of 60 m case. So this
17:04
50 m Rexs were great for it. They sent
17:06
me this and they sent me a selfie stick
17:09
for it as well. So, so I was swimming
17:11
around at 50 odd meters um uh doing some
17:14
some video of myself. So, I'm going to
17:17
stick some of that out at some point in
17:18
the future, but it was really cool and
17:20
it's it's a lovely setup. Uh this thing,
17:22
this uh Insta Pro thing is it's just
17:24
absolutely lovely. Um there's loads of
17:27
great reviews of them on the internet,
17:28
but I'm going to show what it's like in
17:30
a in a low light environment. Spoiler,
17:32
it's very good. Um but I'm going to do
17:35
going to be doing more on that as well.
17:36
So, um, and the other good thing is with
17:38
the Insta is they sent me another one.
17:41
So, so I've got I've got that one which
17:43
I've used and this one here which as you
17:44
can see completely unboxed brand new
17:47
that is going to be in a giveaway um
17:50
probably in July or August. So, um, as
17:55
always with my giveaways that will be
17:57
for people who've liked my Facebook
18:00
group but I'm also doing a new one as
18:02
well. So I if you as well as liking my
18:04
Facebook group, if you like my Facebook
18:07
page, then you'll get two entries. So
18:11
you know, there you go. You want to
18:12
double your chances, like like the group
18:14
or sorry, join the group and like the
18:17
like the Facebook page. Now, I also
18:20
probably need to remind you that I've
18:21
still got this this giveaway here. This
18:24
is the um
18:27
DC710. So this is the one that charges
18:29
through the case. Um, and that giveaway
18:32
is going on until the end of June. So,
18:35
if you want to win that, that's the way
18:37
to uh that remember two entries. One is
18:40
you like my uh oh, sorry, you join the
18:42
Facebook group. One is that you like my
18:44
Facebook page and I will um you know as
18:48
I've done before with the previous
18:49
giveaway, I will stick everyone's name
18:51
in a hat and whoever comes out will get
18:53
sent that and you will automat if you've
18:56
done that you will you know anybody who
18:58
who who who likes those things
18:59
automatically gets chucked in for the
19:01
the other competition. So yeah, coming
19:03
is this lovely lovely Insta 360 Ace Pro
19:07
2 and it also comes with a um with the
19:10
diving case as well. Unfortunately, not
19:12
the selfie stick. I've only got one of
19:14
those, I have to say. I'm a huge fan of
19:16
it already. So, selfie stick is
19:18
brilliant, but I'm keeping it. Um, so
19:22
those are my competitions. Um, the other
19:25
thing I said I would tell you about is
19:26
my diving plans. So, really, really
19:29
excited about this because it's not the
19:31
Tampa. So, anybody's heard about the
19:33
Tampa, it it's uh it's not that. We're
19:35
going back there in September. But the
19:37
uh the big diving plan is um at the end
19:40
of the month we are taking uh Indep's
19:44
boat seeker and we're going down to New
19:47
in the far you know west of Cornwall.
19:49
We're going to base ourselves out there
19:51
for a week and we're going to go into
19:52
the western approaches and we will be
19:54
doing a whole load of stuff that has
19:56
never been dived before. So you know it
19:58
will be really really uh exciting. It
20:01
will be if the weather's up for it,
20:02
we'll be doing 100 odd meter stuff and
20:05
uh you know, all being well, we will be
20:07
finding a whole load of um new wrecks
20:10
and new stories. And of course, I will
20:14
be documenting them and putting them out
20:16
for for you good folk who who watch my
20:18
uh watch my YouTube stuff. Now, on the
20:21
subject of watching my YouTube stuff,
20:23
the other thing I just wanted to say is
20:25
loads of people, I think, like the sheer
20:28
water overlay that I have I've put on
20:30
the last couple of videos. If you have
20:32
no idea what I'm talking about, have a
20:33
look at my last couple of videos. But
20:35
what I need to do is give a huge huge
20:38
shout out to uh Eric Sto who has done
20:41
the work to make that happen. He's um
20:44
he's been absolutely tireless. He has
20:47
sent me prototypes and drafts and he's
20:49
continuously tweaking it. It's it's
20:51
absolutely fantastic. I think it adds so
20:53
much to my videos. I'm really really
20:55
pleased. Now, what I'm going to do is in
20:57
the description, you're going to find a
20:59
load of stuff in the description. You're
21:00
going to find all the stuff about the
21:01
competitions. You are also going to find
21:04
links to some of those videos I
21:05
mentioned, but you're also going to find
21:06
a link to Eric Sto's channel. And um if
21:10
I could ask you a favor, please go to
21:11
his channel, subscribe to it, and have a
21:14
watch of his telemetry video if you're
21:16
interested in doing that. Um I'm sure he
21:18
would like all the usual sort of stuff
21:19
for likes and comments and all those
21:21
kind of things. So if you could do that
21:22
as well, even just a cheers mate, thank
21:25
you. You know what you've done um in
21:27
terms of, you know, helping my videos
21:28
get better, I'm sure that would be
21:30
really appreciated. So So please um
21:33
please do that for him. That would be
21:34
brilliant. And the final thing I'm going
21:36
to close with is my two trips. Um, I'm
21:39
sure people were aware that I was um was
21:42
trying to get two trips going in
21:44
September once again with Indep. I had a
21:46
recreational trip and a technical trip.
21:48
Unfortunately, I didn't get enough
21:50
people for the technical trip which was
21:51
which was really sad. So, I've had to
21:53
cancel that one. Um, but I am going to
21:55
try and do it again next year. I think
21:57
probably I just didn't give people
21:58
enough notice. And it's always the way
22:00
with technical divers is you fill up
22:02
your calendar. you got loads of stuff
22:05
going on. It's quite difficult to kind
22:06
of flex it around. So, I'm hoping to get
22:08
some some dates for 26 towards the end
22:12
of the year. I will put those dates out
22:14
and hopefully some people will be able
22:15
to come and do some um diving with me in
22:17
Plymouth. Having said that, the
22:19
recreational trip, which is which is
22:22
maybe recreational is the wrong word.
22:23
It's a kind of maximum depth of 40 m
22:26
trip. the the 40 meter trip. We uh look
22:30
as though we've got um a full boat to go
22:32
out for that and there's a load of
22:33
people coming on it and it's going to be
22:35
fantastic. I'm really looking forward to
22:36
meeting all the guys who've registered.
22:38
Unfortunately, I was oversubscribed. So
22:41
um a few people didn't make it on there,
22:44
but if people drop out or whatever, then
22:46
I will obviously be um you know going to
22:48
my reserve. If you're one of those guys,
22:50
I'm really really sorry about it. Um,
22:53
but you know, I can only fit a certain
22:55
number of people on board the boat and I
22:56
drew everyone's name out of the hat to
22:58
make it fair and all those kind of
22:59
things. Um, so but once again that seems
23:03
to be really popular. Um, we've got
23:05
people coming from overseas, quite a few
23:07
people from um a couple of guys from
23:09
Belgium, some guys from the Netherlands,
23:11
um, I think um, a guy from Switzerland
23:14
and then uh, people from around the UK
23:16
as well. So, it's going to be really
23:18
good time uh, good mixture on board the
23:20
boat. September is a great time of year
23:21
for diving in in Plymouth. Fingers
23:24
crossed. And uh so I hope we'll have a
23:27
good time. But as I say, um I I'll be
23:29
putting something online about it. I'll
23:31
be getting some videos, all that kind of
23:32
stuff. And um you know, if you fancy
23:34
doing that, once again, uh I'll be
23:37
hoping to put some dates out for next
23:38
year, but probably not until October.
23:41
That is my update. Um I hope there was
23:45
something in there you found it useful.
23:47
If you uh hopefully the bit about
23:49
planning and dive management that I did
23:51
at the beginning, you'll feel that's a
23:52
that's the right place to do it and you
23:54
didn't. And hopefully everyone hung on
23:55
for the uh for the kind of update of of
23:58
what I'm doing. And hopefully you found
23:59
that interesting as well. And as always,
24:02
you know, it'd be great if you could
24:03
give it a like, this video a like or a
24:05
comment. And
24:08
um other than that, you know, please go
24:10
away and watch some of my other videos
24:12
if you haven't already done so. There's
24:13
a whole load on there. You know, I think
24:15
uh they're all great. Um, it was really
24:17
nice actually. Sorry, I have one thing
24:19
one thing I'm going to finish up with.
24:20
Hopefully um you probably saw that um
24:23
some of the media picked up on my my on
24:26
bad terminology, our discovery of the na
24:29
uh last year. I found the crockery. So
24:32
maybe it was me, but anyway, I found the
24:34
crockery. As a team, we identified the
24:36
na um and you know, the media have been
24:39
really interested in that. So they
24:41
they've run it in in various websites
24:43
and in that kind of stuff. So, that's
24:45
really nice to see and hopefully, as I
24:47
say, um there'll be more of that to come
24:49
this year. Right, and that is me
24:53
definitely finished. I hope you've all
24:55
enjoyed this um this podcast and as I
24:58
say, please go away and watch some my
25:00
videos and I will look forward to
25:01
speaking to you on the next one.