nereas
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Since when is diving to 130ft on EAN32 or EAN40 acceptable? Since when does basic Nitrox cert only allow EAN32 or EAN40? Seems we could both do with a refresher.
Diving to 130 fsw on EAN 32 is no sweat. This would give you a ppO2 of 1.6 ATAs for which the safe oxygen exposure time is 45 minutes. At that depth, your NDL limit is going to be a whole lot less than 45 mins.
Diving with EAN 36 should be limited to 95 fsw, as I said originally, and which you apparently misunderstood.
Diving with EAN 40 makes no sense at all, and you are the only person talking about doing it.
Novice divers are recommened to limit their ppO2 exposure to 1.4 ATAs, and if you are a novice, that is what you should also do.
It normally requires a tech-deco course to fully explain oxygen exposure time limits.