Nitrox is only safer if you pretend it is air!


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Posted by Wayne on January 05, 2001 at 21:48:49:

In Reply to: Good timing to enforce checking egos and tempers posted by Eins on January 05, 2001 at 21:01:01:

If you dive air to its NDL and nitrox to its NDL, there is no safety advantage. The only advantage is the longer bottom time. If you dive nitrox to air tables, then you are much further from saturation and therefore further from that undeserved hit. Pushing the tables with any mix is risky.

Wayne


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