First Dives Carl D. Bradley Stern

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[quote='ghosch link' dateline='1091204184']
John,

I read what you said about bailout gases carried, how did that work out from a standpoint of bailout capacity. i.e. did you both have adequete bailout to return to the surface unassisted, or was this a team bailout dive. I guess I could assume some SAC's and run the numbers, but I'm sure you already did that!

Ghosch,
If you run the numbers you'll see in water the divers had enough gas to make without assitance (independently) to the surface with the tanks they carried and the bottles staged in water. If there was a triple lose of gas or more, I had on board enough gas to get both divers out of the water, from 200' and up. Which is as deep as my back gas was mixed for support. Satisticly there was plenty, but if you want to say what if's all day we can get to the point of not enough gas. But take in some major puker facter if ***t happended they would probably had to hit additional gas due to stress and incresed RMV. But they planned their dives exicuted them to the T, so the what if's are for another day.

What software did you use to plan the dives and create backup tables and bailout plans?
They dove their VR3's as mention earlier and I believe it was V plan, OC tables were cut on, but I might be wrong.


Time to go dive,
Greg[/quote]