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Lee Vogt <lvogt@digi.lonestar.org> writes:
> ...
>If I'm not mistaken, the 130' limit applies to ALL recreational SCUBA diving,
>as going deeper than that requires *planned* decompression stops, at which
>point it's no longer recreational, but professional, diving.  ...

There are divers who go deeper than 130' without being paid to do so,
although PADI and most of the other recreational dive training agencies
won't certify them to do so.  Equipment and training requirements become a
lot more complex than for simple no-decompression diving, but if somebody
is going to go to all that trouble, they'll wind up no less qualified than
a professional diver.  A lot of these people go by the name of "technical
divers".

Also, the original US Navy decompression tables claim you can go to 190'
for five minutes and straight back up without any decompression stops.
You might not see a whole lot on such a dive, and anyway I wouldn't
recommend pushing the "outside of the envelope" quite that hard.

But we've strayed quite a distance from the original topic by now. 
Followups directed to rec.scuba.
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Anthony DeBoer  <adb@herboid.uucp | adb@geac.com | uunet!geac!herboid!adb>