Rebreather Rabbit
Registered
The new recommendation obviously blasts past the single-day OTU exposure guideline for multi-day trips (no more than 300 per day).On the subject of pulmonary oxygen toxicity (a similar issue to that raised by Mobulai), what we are saying is that if you take advantage of the new 1.3 limit to perform longer dives, there is an increased chance that you will encounter symptoms of pulmonary oxygen toxicity. Yes, in those long 1.3 exposures we would expect pulmonary symptoms to be more prevalent than convulsions. However, to our knowledge, there has never been a diver who suffered permanent lung injury from pulmonary oxygen toxicity, and so long as you allow any symptoms that appear to resolve between dives it should present no long lasting hazard.
Simon M
Assuming a typical rebreather diver wants to use this new recommendation during a week-long trip to a dive destination, would you recommend using something like Shykoff's pulmonary toxicity calculator (as posted on RESA's website) as part of planning and assessing possible pulmonary toxicity risk during the trip?