Dive!

[matriarch]

This is a queen angel. Lots of nice corals here. The pic is from costa Maya.

That's a stunner!! Gorgeous colours......keep 'em coming.

 

[matriarch]

This is a very good picture of a brain coral and leaves no doubt how it got it's name

Our friend the blue parot was mugging for the camera. The small deep blue fishes are indigo baslets. The yellow fish below the reef lip are Yellow tails.

Absolutely breathtaking.
The fish don't seem phased by it at all. I guess they are used to you funny looking fish popping up all over the place.

 

[Lisa Denton]

How long do you stay down on a tank of air?

 

[minsue]

Taking pics of me is done upon pain of death.

I think there may be one or two with me in my shorty wet suit

Tease!

 

[rgraham666]

Tease!

Seconded.

 

[SeaCat]

How long do you stay down on a tank of air?

Coleen,

May I?

Lisa,
How long you stay down on a tank of air depends on several things. How large your tank is, how deep your dive is, and how active/excited you are during the dive.

The deeper you dive, the more air you use. It is a factor of water pressure.

A good diver, in relativly good shape, who is relaxed can stay down for over forty minutes in thrity feet of water on a 80 Cubic Foot Tank. That same diver, if they are excited or scared shitless, will use the same amount of air, at the same depth in ten minutes or less. (I know a guy who went through an 80 cunic foot tank in 5 minutes after a Moray popped up out of the reef right in front of him. (He also had to clean out his wetsuit. )

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

(He also had to clean out his wetsuit. )

Cat

I hardly blame him.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

How long do you stay down on a tank of air?

I'm still a novice, so I suck air pretty badly. I haven't learned to really control my breathing. I average about 40 to 45 mins as Cat said. My dad, who is 65 and got his cert when I did can go over an hour on the same tank of air. But dad was a navy skin diver when he was a young man and he can really control his breathing well.