ronski101
Contributor
At the risk of rattling a few cages as I have been known to do, why is O2 not part of our every day scuba diving experience? I remember when safety stops were unheard of and the same with computers. So as diving has matured as a sport, it seems strange that since people who are suspect to have a DCS hit on a boat are immediately given O2, why not as a preventitive measure when you are done with a dive and say your computer shows that you are in the yellow nitrogen wise that you would not automatically breath O2 for say 5 min. during your interval as a safety measure? Hasn't DAN done any studies on this yet? Remember, computers only approximate what nitrogen you really absorb and if I recall, some people have got hit and were still within normal diving limits. Drag racers and football players use O2 to sharpen their game why don't us divers do it for additional safety? Remember the oxygen bars? I am looking forward to the edges of both sides of the bell curve of responses to this one.......