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I tend to look at this type of thing from a cost effectiveness standpoint. The dollar cost difference is fairly obvious. You can't do much trade-off without effectiveness measures.
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Right. Maybe $6 vs. $14 fills?Slight cost???
I estmate that using EAN for all dives my wife and I have done would have cost me an additional $10,000.
I tend to look at this type of thing from a cost effectiveness standpoint. The dollar cost difference is fairly obvious. You can't do much trade-off without effectiveness measures.
Hats off to you Andy. My Air is free with the shop as a DM. Guess it's a new ballgame as an independent instructor.Me also. Most of my dives are teaching courses. I'm an independent instructor... I only get my gasses paid for on nitrox and tech courses. I'd have to pay my own gas, out-of-earnings, if I elected for it... where I often work out of in the P.I. it costs ~$5 a tank. I dive sidemount... so that's $10 a dive... twice a day is $20... That's more than I pay for food in a day... more than the sushimi, crab and prawns Valentines dinner I had last night....
However, if I only dove occasionally and for pleasure... I'd use it every time.... even knowing I have a low predisposition to DCI... having never been bent (even when two buddies were...). I'd also carry a 40 of 50% to come up on....
Yeah, me too, if I had done about 8000 dives that'd be true. Since I've only done a hundred or so, my nitrox costs have been about... 50$I estmate that using EAN for all dives my wife and I have done would have cost me an additional $10,000.
...For further reading, there are a number of threads you can search for where CNS oxygen toxicity, etc., has been discussed in the context of recreational diving. There seems to be some debate as to whether we recreational divers doing a lot of diving over the course of week or so need to be concerned or not.
Is it just me, or do I see many people valuing nitrox singularly for the reason of extending bottom time?
Don't people value insulating themselves from the risk of DCI?
.... and yet there are people in chambers every day..... and a significant proportion of DCI cases are 'undeserved'...meaning that they were inside NDL, no fast ascent and no 'red light' pre-disposing factors....
I do.Don't people value insulating themselves from the risk of DCI?