Any scuba divers on here? How deep have you been ?

[Dave7]

Just reading about the tragedy in the Maldives where 5 divers lost thier lives in a 50 metre cave dive.
I am qualified both BSAC and PADI.
I have done basic cave and wreck diving but was never really comfortable with either, I much preferred open water.
My deepest was 44 metres in the Med, a place called the Midas islands and it was amazing.......just down there for 10 minutes.
I always preferred eg 20 metres for 35 minutes.

 

[presta]

I've been to the bottom of the deep end of the swimming pool (with and without scuba gear). I had to give up ambitions to join the local club though, when I read the bit on the application form where a doctor has certify that you don't have anxiety.

 

[FrankCrank]

My deepest around the same as yours. Have done some amazing cave dives in Phi Phi islands, Thailand. We stayed overnight on the island used for the movie 'The Beach', but a few years before they made it, so had yet to be ruined by mass tourism.

I draw the line at the narrow pot holing type cave dives - that gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it. Saw a documentary a few years back with Steve Backshall doing some serious and scary cave dives, he went up in my estimation after doing that

 

[gbb]

Never dived although the idea seemed attractive as I used to be BA trained for rescue etc... so was always quite comfortable in the gear
I did watch free divers in Egypt once, sitting on the floor.what seemed maybe 30 ft down. I assumed as I watched from the surface (snorkelling)...they were kitted up..but was shocked how after what seemed.like an eternity, they pushed off and came up...no scuba gear on

 

[Binky]

58metres in Malta

I regularly dived to 50 metres in UK on wrecks