Anyone do scuba diving?

[jsmoke]

I fancy a go. Can you just buy the gear and go for it, there are obvious dangers involved I know but you have to die one day?

 

[jsmoke]

You could just buy it, but you would die. 2 simple things that would kill you, that you just wouldn't realise are for instance.
The longer your underwater the slower you have to return to the surface, otherwise the accumulation of nitrogen in your blood will kill you.
You also have to breath out as you rise, you might not have know that if you took your last breath at the bottom and then swam up holding your breath, your lungs would expand pretty quickly and do you some damage.

Best to get some training, plus scuba gear costs a fortune. You'd wanner join a club and use theirs.

Actually I watched a video earlier today about breathing out when ascending and how the air expands. Quite scary really as that's a genuine thing I wouldn't have known.

I knew about the bends but do you not have to be at a certain depth before you need decompression stops?

The deeper and longer your dive the more chance you need decompression stops. Shallow dives of 6-10 metres (20-30 feet) you can spend over 200 minutes without a decompression stop. Dives to over 30 metres (100 feet) limit your dive time to around 20 minutes before a decompression stop is required.

 

[jsmoke]

I've seen the video on YT of Yuri Lipski, he goes down to 115m, gets into problems and dies. Very harrowing.