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1) Scuba Gear is expensive 2) Scuba Gear requires maintenance 3) Scuba Gear requires a compressor which is more expense and maintenance. 4) You can free dive
by NikolaeVarius 5y ago
1) Scuba Gear is expensive
2) Scuba Gear requires maintenance
3) Scuba Gear requires a compressor which is more expense and maintenance.
4) You can free dive all day and not have to a damn about decompression times (exceptions occur for very aggressive repeated deep drives, which is not happening here). This is untrue for Scuba
5) Clearly there is a cultural component to this.
- anamax 5y agoDecompression time is a function of depth, time, and N2 concentration. (Yes, O2 matters for because of O2 toxicity, but that's not a decompression issue.) Scuba can let you breathe different mixtures than the standard atmosphere but need not increase decompression time.