Been to Koh Tao, should I go to PERHENTIANS?

In article <1122384403.010159.285490@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups .com>,
Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com (Reef Fish) wrote:

> I am just playing the Devil for morgan!

Play away.........;^)

Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK
Take out the "goes diving" bit....
Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk

H Huntzinger wrote:
>
> For mixes below 40%, the answer depends on how gullible you are in
> regards to paying for stuff that you don't really need.
>

Really ? ? ?
So there's absolutely no reason to use anything less than 40% ?

morgand@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:

> And if your doing 30 to 40 dives on a trip thats roughly $480 for the 40
> dives EXTRA per person.......christ I've had a week in Bali for the pair
> of us for $200 (£125.00) and that was before the bomb.
>
> So......i wont be paying for it thank's.......
>

Dave, it has been my experience that most diver operators offer a heavy
discount for a weeks worth of Nitrox. I'm doing the Caribbean Explorer
II this fall and they offer Nitrox for the week at $150USD. I will take
that option.

My diving is much like yours. Warm water vacation diver, and I find
Nitrox a real plus. I like the added safety margin and do feel that it
cuts down on fatigue. But the fact is, Nitrox hasn't changed the way I
dive at all. I was never an aggressive diver on depth. I do enjoy long
dives and perhaps by the 5th dive, I'm getting more bottom time but I
really haven't notice any big changes in the way I dive. For me, it's
all about the safety.

Of course, I use a Nitrox dive computer, and mind the depth (which for
me isn't much of an issue because I like to take pictures and most
subjects are not deep). I know many divers will do the first dive on
air and the rest on Nitrox.

The courses are straight forward and it really isn't a difficult thing
to pick-up. Some here tend to make much too much of it, as they do
diving in general -- don't let them put you off. It's scuba diving, not
space walking. ;)

Dive safe,

/Don

Lee Bell wrote:
> "Jer" wrote
>
>
>>>Same 20 dives, but now @ 55 minutes each = 1100 minutes of diving for
>>>$8200. For $8200/1100 minutes = $7.45 per minute.
>
>
> It's not entirely about money. Most of us can't just go diving any time we
> like. When we can make time, we like to maximize the amount of time spend
> actually diving. Nitrox is good for that.
>
> The fact is, nitrox may not be for everybody, but there are enough people
> diving it on a regular basis, to suggest that there's some value to using
> it. At the very least, it's worth the time to learn more about it.
>
>
>>2.5% of anything is chump change. IMO.
>
>
> It's more than twice the interest I'm getting on my money market account.
>
> Lee
>
>

One word: Euro

--
jer
email reply - I am not a 'ten'

"Jer" wrote

> One word: Euro

Each time I do a favor for somebody in a foreign country, I ask them to
return the favor by sending me the equivalent of one dollar in whatever
currency they use. Try as I might, I've yet to get a Euro.

Lee

Lee Bell wrote:
> "Jer" wrote
>
> > One word: Euro
>
> Each time I do a favor for somebody in a foreign country, I ask them to
> return the favor by sending me the equivalent of one dollar in whatever
> currency they use.

DING-DONG!

If the currency used is the Euro, the "equivalent of one dollar"
would have been (a minute or so ago):

Live mid-market rates as of 2005.07.27 03:14:43 UTC.
1.00 USD United States Dollars = 0.832256 EUR

> Try as I might, I've yet to get a Euro.
>
> Lee

or 0.83 Euro whose conversion back to the USD would
half left Lee monetarily poorer besides setting HIMESLF
up to be the sucker! :=)

LB> return the favor by sending me the equivalent of
LB> one dollar in whatever currency they use.

To uee Lee's INTENDED meaning, he would have received
1 Hong Kong dollar for his 1 USD. 1 HK dollar is less
than $0.01 USD.

Let's face it. Lee is just an all-around sucker! But
he sho knows how to dig his head into the sand though.

-- Bob.

In article
<{NOSPAM-rm_to_reply}rec-scuba2005-7D4D24.08100026072005@news.giganews.com
>, {NOSPAM-rm_to_reply}rec-scuba2005@huntzinger.com (H Huntzinger) wrote:

>
> Don't be so quick to judge Nitrox just because I provided one example
> of where it was a very poor value.

No, I'm building a picture.........

Money is hard earned, for me anyway, and i like a bargain, being
"economical" with my spends allows me to do the trips we do, having said
that i dont by cheap because its cheap, i like to think i buy good value.

As you can see I'm here in my chair trying to earn more "dive's",
allthough i have not earned much or many lately talking to
all of you guy's........

Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK
Take out the "goes diving" bit....
Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk

Lembo <lembo27@gmail.com> wrote:

> H Huntzinger wrote:
> >
> > For mixes below 40%, the answer depends on how gullible you are in
> > regards to paying for stuff that you don't really need.
> >
>
> Really ? ? ?

Yup.


> So there's absolutely no reason to use anything less than 40% ?

No, that's an entirely different question. There's actually several
good reasons to use mixes below 40%, just as there's good reasons for
above 40% too.



-hh

In article <TovFe.9410$oZ.1597@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.n et>,
leebell@ix.netcom.com (Lee Bell) wrote:

>
> It varies with the mix and with your willingness to push your luck. In
> the past, a partial pressure of Oxygen equal to 1.6 atmospheres was
> considered safe enough. Currently the standard is 1.4 atmospheres. At
> 1.4, the MOD for 32% is 111 feet salt water, for 36% is 95 feet salt
> water and for 21% (air) is 187 feet salt water. For deco purposes, a
> PPO2 of 1.6 is still pretty standard, yielding a MOD of 73 feet salt
> water (usually marked for 70 feet) for 50% and 20 feet for pure oxygen.

You see.........you have to go and spoil it all by talking rocket science,
I'm just a simple man..........english please ;^)

Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK
Take out the "goes diving" bit....
Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk

In article <1122390016.912719.100320@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
recscuba_google@huntzinger.com (-hh) wrote:

>
> ...whereas 32% at the 1.6 PPO2 limit would be:
>
> MOD = (1.6/.32 - 1)* 33 = 132fsw
>
>
> For 36% and 1.4 PPO2 limit:
>
> MOD = (1.4/.36 - 1) * 33 = 95fsw
>

AAAAAAaaahhhhhhhhh now I'm confused.........look guy's, air is OK
honestly.

Now if you had just used plain ole english my previous comments "might
give it a try" would stand........now.......forget it.

Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK
Take out the "goes diving" bit....
Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk