Fatty tanks of Nitrox!

[Dave Dillehay]

Pro Dive offers Nitrox free! And to some, diving Nitrox is less tiresome.

Once upon a time I had to dive 41 days in a row as a DM while 50 years old +. Hell, I was tired! Staff said try nitrox and I did.

Didn't make any difference to me at all, so as far as I am concerned the feel feel good part is a myth. Not to say others can't feel it.

Dave

 

[flyboy08]

Once upon a time I had to dive 41 days in a row as a DM while 50 years old +. Hell, I was tired! Staff said try nitrox and I did.

Didn't make any difference to me at all, so as far as I am concerned the feel feel good part is a myth. Not to say others can't feel it.

Dave

I love Myths! BTW..have you seen that beautiful mermaid off of the east end ever?

 

[Dave Dillehay]

Yes, I have seen her, That is why I love the East Side so much. It is not just the pristine corals and sunken galleons…its her hips! How do you say tongue in cheek?

Dave

 

[DandyDon]

Once upon a time I had to dive 41 days in a row as a DM while 50 years old +. Hell, I was tired! Staff said try nitrox and I did.

Didn't make any difference to me at all, so as far as I am concerned the feel feel good part is a myth. Not to say others can't feel it.

Dave

pla·ce·bo ef·fect
noun
noun: placebo effect; plural noun: placebo effects

1. a beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment.

 

[Dave Dillehay]

pla·ce·bo ef·fect
noun
noun: placebo effect; plural noun: placebo effects

1. a beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment.

Dear DD,

We cannot accept that there may not be physical differences between divers. I personally believe it may be good for some besides the placebo effect. iT just was not for me.

Dave

 

[BRT]

It sounds good, but DAN has pretty well destroyed the myth. Nitrox one benefit is longer NDLs. On Roatan, even with multilevel diving, I took it because they had a cheap package, but on Cozumel it's too expensive to support. It's really only good for square profile wreck diving, essential in North Carolina for example.

I don't know about Mares. Some computers claim to be safer by penalizing the diver with shorter dive times, but it's fake science - marketing.

I am not actually a safe person, but I try to reduce my risks in some areas. The best ways to reduce risks of hits is deep stops, slower ascents, and the long safety stop.

Do you believe that staying further away from max NDL's has no benefit?

 

[MaxBottomtime]

You can stay away from max NDLs on air by shortening your dive. Nitrox allows you to do so with more allowable bottom time. The incidence rate of DCS cases on air is already less than 1% of dives made. Using Nitrox can't make it mathematically much safer.

 

[BRT]

You can stay away from max NDLs on air by shortening your dive. Nitrox allows you to do so with more allowable bottom time. The incidence rate of DCS cases on air is already less than 1% of dives made. Using Nitrox can't make it mathematically much safer.

Maybe less than .01%. But leaving more minutes between the time you end the dive and the NDL almost has to improve that percentage. Nitrox lets me do that and still get in lots of dive time. And possibly makes me less tired ( I'm a believer) We seldom read about DCS here when pushing the limits isn't in question.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

That's the funny thing about Scubaboard. In spite of the fact that the textbooks we used in our nitrox courses tell us that the two benefits are more bottom time anmakes them feel better.d/or shorter surface intervals and they mention the placebo effect posters here will swear that it's safer and

 

[BRT]

That's the funny thing about Scubaboard. In spite of the fact that the textbooks we used in our nitrox courses tell us that the two benefits are more bottom time anmakes them feel better.d/or shorter surface intervals and they mention the placebo effect posters here will swear that it's safer and

To believe that using nitrox to dive longer and still leave more cushion between dive time and NDL's is not safer than diving air to the NDL's air is to say that using every minute of NDL time is as safe as leaving a cushion and I never hear anybody saying dive your computers to the limit.