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Old 04-25-2008, 01:27 AM   #44 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by EuphoriaII View Post
i have heard that on the cruseship dives, when the first person is low on air, all come up. With the local dive ops, I've been allowed to stay under longer provided my buddy and I have good air conservation.
In Grand Cayman I tend to use Neptune Divers and in Cozumel I use Papa Hogs (and once used Aldora because someone else lined up the dive).
We did the ship booked excursion in March of this year, in St. Martin. What they did was to monitor air, then shuffled partners according to consumption rates. The first pair went up at 500, with a DM escort to the up line. DM then returned to the group. 10 minutes later, my partner hit 500, (started with my wife, then finished with the husband of the couple we cruisd with.) and I, and finally, my wife and our friend. Worked well.

The only bad part I could see was being partnerd with someone you don't know, just lucky that out friends have near identical SAC's as ours.
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