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Using Nitrox has nothing to do with air consumption, nada, zilch - at least not directly. Indirectly, the divers with better air consumption like you suggest you are are the ones who benefit more as it's all about Nitrogen loading - so the longer you can stay down the more loading you are capable therefore more likely to get hit on Air vs less likely on Nitrox. Since you seem to have no knowledge of Nitrox, then the preceding discussion with regard to the lack of its use probly wasn't understandable. I hope that very brief explanation helps.I don't have the training of all the doctors and DMs on this thread, so I've always gone by the limits I learned on the mike ball + peter hughes boats - which is 5 dives/day max. I'm wondering if a lot you on this board exceed that, and if you do, is it because you use nitrox?
I haven't tried nitrox since I usually have air leftover when everyone is getting back in the boat, and I'd rather have the leeway on my depth.
If it isn't because of the nitrox, are you just cowboys?
Do you dive a computer or tables? What has been your highest reading?
While there has been some discussion here about the diver pushing himself too hard, Scubaboard does not condone unsafe diving practices or suggestions of such. I was born and raised a cattleman, saving herds from blizzards and plagues for decades so it always seems funny to me for someone to use the word cowboy as an attempted insult rather than a honor, but I suppose we do the same about bareheaded city people.
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