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95fsw at a P02 of 1.4Was the deceased nitrox certified?
What is the MOD on 36%......
95fsw at a P02 of 1.4
104fsw at a P02 of 1.5
Good point... But not outside standard limits...
The accident has no aspects of OxTox associated with it, air sharing went on to a depth of 15 feet, then something else appears to have gone wrong.
No O2 on the boat??? Running the engine so hard it stopped???
Hopefully this wasn't a professional dive operation???
It is very sad that another diver died, I am very sad for the loss. Had an O2 kit been in place, perhaps there would have been a better chance of survival...
I find this terrible sad. How can there be any divers out there in this area not diving with a computer, and without a buddy? Partcularly one that seemed to have gas management issues.
Only dives I make that are not called by the no deco limits, are those made on the Miss Louse. At least that I have seen, running out of gas would also mean running out of bottom time and carrying a good deco obligation.
How would a computer have changed things. This was an out of air issue, not a computer issue. Almost 100% of my dives are decompression dives. I use a computer as a backup, but I plan all of my dives before ever getting in the water. I know what my decompression obligation is going to be before I ever splash. I also require the same of my students. A couple of my students just finished a trimix class last weekend and one of them doesn't own a trimix computer. His computer was in gauge mode. Guess what? He's doing just fine. In fact, he's posted in this thread. There's way too much reliance on computers these days.