Nitrox Not Helping With Narcosis... It's not making sense.

[Rhone Man]

We are rapidly reaching the point of no further value in this thread. Barbarians at the gates.

 

[jonnythan]

We are rapidly reaching the point of no further value in this thread. Barbarians at the gates.

Approaching?

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[debajo agua]

You like that?

I wish it just said infinity dives. For the lulz

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I think you're misquoting someone, and its making you look...dumb...

Perhaps... Look man, I'm repeating what I was told by someone far more qualified than myself. I have no motive to lie or misrepresent what was spoken to me. If you think it makes me look dumb, well... that's your problem.

I might like to add, that only one of you has sent a private msg, in a quest to get the credentials of the person I talked to . That means thus far, only one of you is willing to think outside the box. I had to look again to make sure I was on the SB and not the flat earth society.

 

[farsidefan1]

Honest to God, I can't believe I read the whole thread and am actually responding to it, there's some time I'll never get back. I just wanted to add this tiny 2 cents bit of info. WILL NITROX ALLOW YOU TO DIVE A MEASURABLE DEPTH DEEPER WITHOUT NARCOSIS? The answer clearly is not really. This has devolved into a pissing contest over something which will have no appreciable effect on your diving. You will be narced when your body is narced. That is the definitive answer. It will be different on every dive. That is the definitive answer.

Now just go out and enjoy diving. Peace to all.

 

[nimoh]

Well, here is the lowdown, and will try to keep it factual

The individual
- The individual not a doctor
- he laughed when I mentioned that current thinking in the SCUBA industry is that oxygen is narcotic at any pressure
- it is his opinion that anyone that thinks oxygen is narcotic is confusing oxygen toxicity with gas narcosis

The company
- a commercial hyperbaric therapy operation, and is not associated with a hospital, nor is there any indication of them doing hyperbaric research.
- appears to be a family run company, since of the 5 employees listed, 4 have the same last name

I did ask for publications to support this, but he didn't have any easily available, but referred me to Rubicon. When I mentioned that I have seen two publications on Rubicon that appear to support oxygen being narcotic, he laughed again.


IMHO, this isn't enough to refute the current thinking in SCUBA certification courses, but the OP didn't make it up....unless I was speaking to the OP

Well, I am starting to lose interest in this thread as well, time to go golfing.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Well, here is the lowdown, and will try to keep it factual

The individual
- The individual not a doctor
- he laughed when I mentioned that current thinking in the SCUBA industry is that oxygen is narcotic at any pressure
- it is his opinion that anyone that thinks oxygen is narcotic is confusing oxygen toxicity with gas narcosis

The company
- a commercial hyperbaric therapy operation, and is not associated with a hospital, nor is there any indication of them doing hyperbaric research.
- appears to be a family run company, since of the 5 employees listed, 4 have the same last name

I did ask for publications to support this, but he didn't have any easily available, but referred me to Rubicon. When I mentioned that I have seen two publications on Rubicon that appear to support oxygen being narcotic, he laughed again.


IMHO, this isn't enough to refute the current thinking in SCUBA certification courses, but the OP didn't make it up....unless I was speaking to the OP

Well, I am starting to lose interest in this thread as well, time to go golfing.

... that's about as valid as talking to your local dive shop owner ...

The bit about no microbubbles in nitrox doesn't make any sense. If the premise is that reducing nitrogen reduces microbubbles, then at best you're going to see a reduction ... not a complete elimination.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[boulderjohn]

I might like to add, that only one of you has sent a private msg, in a quest to get the credentials of the person I talked to . That means thus far, only one of you is willing to think outside the box. I had to look again to make sure I was on the SB and not the flat earth society.

I asked you to send the name to me privately in the forum.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Perhaps he only plays a Doctor on TV.

 

[mala]

i have never taken 02 out of my mix to reduce narcosis.


get real.

 

[Rhone Man]