Neal Pollock recommended mild exercise during decompression in this presentation. It is near the end.In my opinion we should do swimming deco whenever feasible.
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Neal Pollock recommended mild exercise during decompression in this presentation. It is near the end.In my opinion we should do swimming deco whenever feasible.
Wasnt the reason for doing stationary deco based in the higher PPO2 while doing deco?
I thought it was the other way around. You can have higher PPO2 because your not working as much. I'm not talking about running marathons, just a easy swim around. Beside, most of the time your not going to be at 1.6 anyway.
i only dive in my drysuit... its been joked to me many times that the only people i can dive with are those on rebreathers. I wonder what it will be when i get a separate bottle for my dry suit inflation.
But its kinda annoying when I'm having to end dives and sometimes waste so much unused gas because I'm diving with people that have 'regular' SAC rates.
I'm pretty new to diving and trying to educate myself where possible and i wondered if there is a paper or resource someone can direct me to if this has already been discussed.
My SAC rate on deco is around 50% that of the 'working' portion of my dives, Thats not to say i increase my air consumption during the work portion, Rather it's more like when I'm not moving around much my gas consumption goes crazy low (around 5-6LPM).
It was after a dive recently where afterwards i thought about all the N2 i had taken on at depth (breathing 10-12 litres per minute) and then coming up to deco depths i spent around an hour there but it got me thinking that surely to offgas efficiently i should maybe deliberately increase my breathing rate to the same as the working portion of my dive where my SACrate is much higher.... Or am i just overthinking things?
I realise i relax to a zenlike state when I'm just staring at a fish or a rock and not really moving anywhere.
Can you offgas inspired nitrogen in the blood at a fixed rate independent of breathing or does breathing rate directly influence the efficiency of decompression?
Does a marginal increase in breathing rate on deco, compared to the working portion, assist in off gassing faster?