Jason Fox Back From Indo LIVE SALE!!!! 12hrs of Craziness!!!
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Johnz
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Your body doesn't get used to it. If you are very fit and have less fat you can regularly exceed normal dive tables and probably get away with it for a long while. I'm not familiar with exactly what happens in the area these guys were diving, but the effects of unsafe diving in third world countries is very well documented, with villages full of cripples not uncommon. Google Honduras Lobster as an example. What happens if that 5hp honda motor stops running? Those guys will get bent and probably not have access to a hyperbaric chamber. You can dive the same profile day after day with no problem and then one day you get bent. And after getting bent the first time, you actually become more prone to it, not the other way around. I'm sorry if I'm a kill joy, and I wish you the best of luck in the Live Sale, but videos like this make me think twice about buying wild caught corals and fish.
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my best guess is they get less than 20 par of light for 12 hours at 130 feet. Remember they get food always down there also. We have slowly adapted lps to some more light in captivity. Every time I get back from a dive trip I find myself turning my lights to less time or less light !!!!
TopNotchCorals
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very good food for thought!!
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your body does get used to it! Ask any serious dive master! And if the engine on the compressor breaks the tank still holds air. The guys down there notice it gets harder to breathe because there is less air pressure. At that time they slowly start coming up to safety. Also this is a very professional operation. The owner sends all divers to the decompression chamber 1 time every month for safety precaution . All corals I get will be grown out in captivity then they are aquacultured corals. Thank you
purplereef
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That is what I was thinking when you said you found the sweet black and orange chalice down there at 130'. I felt kind of crazy shoving my WWC Rainbow Sleeper way up under a large rock. It makes me wonder if all of the chalices will do there best with almost no PAR.
Johnz
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It sounds like the area you collect out of does have a hyperbaric chamber and some safety procedures then. That's definitely not the norm. Sorry if I prejudged but seeing that compressor and the bottom times you described made me shudder. I've been diving regularly for the last 18 years, logged countless dives, and that just seems crazy to me.
slapshot
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Oh I think we all agree with you prejudging or not. It does impress me they are not all crippled.
On another note Jason, thank you for discussing this. I have wished for years collectors would attach a little info on flow and light conditions corals are caught in. It would stop a lot of RTN and bleaching.
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Don't worry I thought the same thing at first! Chills went up my spine when I saw it the first time .I'm using the atomic cobalt computer! I follow it and did much deco time. Blew my mind to see them down there over a hour after I come up!!! They all say they can do dives like that every day since children. The body gets used to releasing the nitrogen every day. I called my good friend that is a dive instructor and he told me that its true. He also told me to only follow my dive computer no exceptions! Lol the worst part of diving is when it's time to come up. You just want to stay down there!!!
reef life
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Crazy! I have been PADI Cert. over 30 yrs. and have a third lung also. I dont even feel safe using them past 50 ft because they can and will shut off sometimes(run out of gas after 2.7 hrs) But i'm not searching for coral just Lobster fever and spearing fish. Keep videos coming and some pics of that orange rimmed chalice!
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