Why not 40% O2 and 60% He?

Posted by AADIVER on March 23, 2001 at 07:37:29:

Forgive my impatience but somebody PLEASE give me an answer as to why I can't simply avoid nitrogen altogether by breathing only O2 and He proportionate to my max depth?

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• The USN and commercial diving sector uses straight heliox. Bob3 09:49:49 03/23/01 (0)
• Re: Why not 40% O2 and 60% He? MHK 09:33:26 03/23/01 (2)
  • mike explained: take the class / read the book / get the C-card RaiderKarl 11:02:52 03/23/01 (0)
  • Re: Why not 40% O2 and 60% He? AADIVER 11:00:29 03/23/01 (0)
• Re: Why not 40% O2 and 60% He? Kendall Raine 08:20:18 03/23/01 (2)
  • Re: Why not 40% O2 and 60% He? AADIVER 08:42:07 03/23/01 (1)
    • Re: See response to mdfixitman. nt Kendall Raine 09:19:39 03/23/01 (0)
• Re: Why not 40% O2 and 60% He? Steve 07:54:36 03/23/01 (6)
  • Steve, you meant to say that O2 saturates you quicker ... RaiderKarl 07:57:26 03/23/01 (5)
    • No I didn't mean O2, Karl. Steve 17:07:10 03/23/01 (1)
      • sorry, my mistake, you did mean it! RaiderKarl 19:11:08 03/26/01 (0)
    • Re: Steve, you meant to say that O2 saturates you quicker ... mdfixitman 08:15:11 03/23/01 (2)
      • Re: Steve, you meant to say that O2 saturates you quicker ... Kendall Raine 08:18:03 03/23/01 (1)
        • He not H2, oops mdfixitman 08:37:46 03/23/01 (0)
• it should be interesting what the tekkies have to say RaiderKarl 07:52:36 03/23/01 (4)
  • Re: it should be interesting what the tekkies have to say MuckDiver 09:36:50 03/25/01 (3)
    • Re: it should be interesting what the tekkies have to say MHK 12:11:30 03/26/01 (2)
      • Re: it should be interesting what the tekkies have to say AADIVER 21:34:08 03/26/01 (1)
        • Re: it should be interesting what the tekkies have to say MHK 09:03:13 03/27/01 (0)

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