Bigd2722
Contributor
There are spreadsheets for just about everything. Does anyone have one for tracking/calculating oxygen toxicity?
just curious
thanx
just curious
thanx
oxygen toxicity calculator
- Thread starter Bigd2722
- Start date
Please register or login
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
- Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
- A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
- You can make this box go away
Basking Ridge Diver
Contributor
[TD="class: xl64"]PO 2 [/TD]
[TD="class: xl64, width: 88"]Max Single Exposure[/TD]
[TD="class: xl64, width: 107"]Max 24 Hour Exposure[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, width: 50"][/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, width: 88"](minutes)[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, width: 107"](minutes)[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, width: 50"]1.6[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 88"]45[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 107"]150[/TD]
[TD="class: xl68, width: 50"]1.5[/TD]
[TD="class: xl69, width: 88"]120[/TD]
[TD="class: xl69, width: 107"]180[/TD]
[TD="class: xl70, width: 50"]1.4[/TD]
[TD="class: xl71, width: 88"]150[/TD]
[TD="class: xl72, width: 107"]180[/TD]
[TD="class: xl73, width: 50"]1.3[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 88"]180[/TD]
[TD="class: xl74, width: 107"]210[/TD]
[TD="class: xl73, width: 50"]1.2[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 88"]210[/TD]
[TD="class: xl74, width: 107"]240[/TD]
[TD="class: xl73, width: 50"]1.1[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 88"]240[/TD]
[TD="class: xl74, width: 107"]270[/TD]
[TD="class: xl73, width: 50"]1.0[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 88"]300[/TD]
[TD="class: xl74, width: 107"]300[/TD]
[TD="class: xl73, width: 50"]0.9[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 88"]360[/TD]
[TD="class: xl74, width: 107"]360[/TD]
[TD="class: xl73, width: 50"]0.8[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 88"]450[/TD]
[TD="class: xl74, width: 107"]450[/TD]
[TD="class: xl73, width: 50"]0.7[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67, width: 88"]570[/TD]
[TD="class: xl74, width: 107"]570[/TD]
[TD="class: xl75, width: 50"]0.6[/TD]
[TD="class: xl76, width: 88"]720[/TD]
[TD="class: xl77, width: 107"]720[/TD]
You mean like this? I use my dive computer to track O2...
- Messages
- 20,799
- Reaction score
- 15,524
- # of dives
- I'm a Fish!
any decompression computer will keep track of it. If you're doing NDL diving it's pretty impossible to max your o2 clock out. Oxtox is due to free radicals bouncing around, but most if not all computers keep track of it. The Shearwaters get SUPER grumpy when you meet or exceed their limits
ajduplessis
Contributor
You have an awful lot of dives under your belt with a Nitrox card, how did you manage up until now?
- Messages
- 21,506
- Reaction score
- 21,780
- Location
- Philadelphia and Boynton Beach
- # of dives
- 2500 - 4999
Computers track O2 exposure in different ways. Oceanic computers use a rolling 24 hour window and the exposure limits from the NOAA table, posted above by BRD. As an example, if you are diving 4 dives per day, there are usually 5, or transiently, 6 dives in your 24 hour window as they are not eliminated until 24 hours after the end of the dive. It is not difficult to approach or exceed the NOAA limits in this case with relatively long dives and relatively rich nitrox. My usual drift dives in Boynton Beach using EAN36 generally give me 20-25% of my exposure per dive. I try to get leaner nitrox mixes to reduce my exposure, especially when diving multiple dives per day for multiple days.
Shearwater utilizes an oxygen elimination half-life of 90 minutes. When on the surface, half your oxygen exposure is eliminated every hour and a half. Assuming they use the same 24 hour limits (and I'm not sure this is true, but would like to know), it would be considerably harder to approach daily limits using one of these computers.
I would imagine different brands use different methods, it would probably be prudent to understand how your computer works. I think Uwatec uses an oxygen elimination half life whereas most or all of the Pelagic Pressure Systems computers use the method I described for Oceanic.
Off to add another 40-50% to my oxygen exposure for this visit......
Shearwater utilizes an oxygen elimination half-life of 90 minutes. When on the surface, half your oxygen exposure is eliminated every hour and a half. Assuming they use the same 24 hour limits (and I'm not sure this is true, but would like to know), it would be considerably harder to approach daily limits using one of these computers.
I would imagine different brands use different methods, it would probably be prudent to understand how your computer works. I think Uwatec uses an oxygen elimination half life whereas most or all of the Pelagic Pressure Systems computers use the method I described for Oceanic.
Off to add another 40-50% to my oxygen exposure for this visit......
Not sure how a spreadsheet would be terribly helpful, given that your O2 exposure varies by depth and time over the course of a dive. Unless you're diving/assuming a square profile. If you are, you could run out of 02 limits easily in a day.
Using a Vytec DS and doing 5 nitrox dives a day on liveaboard - and as many as 6/day in Bonaire - I've never come close to hitting OTU limits.
- Messages
- 14,188
- Reaction score
- 11,447
- Location
- Port Orchard, Washington State
- # of dives
- 1000 - 2499
Basking Ridge Diver
Contributor
I used Google - nothing with excel though...
try this http://www.diverclub.ru/File/literatur/Oxygen_Toxicity_Calculations.pdf
or this - http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/advanced-scuba-discussions/334121-cns-calculations.html
try this http://www.diverclub.ru/File/literatur/Oxygen_Toxicity_Calculations.pdf
or this - http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/advanced-scuba-discussions/334121-cns-calculations.html
Buy yourself an IANTD C-3201 table. You can get them from DGX.
1) Write down all the depths and times at various depths on a spreadsheet or piece of paper.
2) Calculate the partial pressure of 02 at ever depth. (ATA * fraction of O2) Example: 30m depth = 4ATA. EAN30 at 4ATA: 4 * 0.3 = 1.2 pp02
3) Look for the various 02 CNS and OTU exposure rates for the various pp02s calculated during step 2 on your C-3201 table and write them down.
4) Multiply the exposure rates by the planned time at the various depths.
5) Add up all the totals and you should now have the total planned OTU and CNS values for your planned dive.
Remember that it is unwise to exceed 80% CNS and not to exceed 300 OTUs within a 24 hour period.
Also take note that your CNS clock has a 90 min half time when out of the water.
---------- Post added June 24th, 2015 at 09:20 AM ----------
for simple square profile planning when doing no-deco diving you can use the table above.
1) Get you maximum pp02 at the deepest point of your dive. (ATA * fraction of 02) Example: EAN36 at 25m depth: 3.5ATA x 0.36 = 1.26pp02
2) decide what your total bottom time will be. Example: 40 minutes
3) Using the table above: Round your pp02 to the bigger number for conservancy. Example: 1.26 becomes 1,3 pp02.
4) Using the table above: Get the maximum single exposure value for 1.3. (1.3pp02 = 180 min max single exposure)
5) Now simply divide the planned bottom time from step 2 by the maximum from step 4. (40 min / 180 min = 22.2% CNS)
remember to also consider the 24 hour exposure max for planning repetitive dives.
---------- Post added June 24th, 2015 at 09:23 AM ----------
Please remember that there is no substitute for proper training...
If the calculations that I have provided does not make sense to you then seek out proper training from a respected instructor.
1) Write down all the depths and times at various depths on a spreadsheet or piece of paper.
2) Calculate the partial pressure of 02 at ever depth. (ATA * fraction of O2) Example: 30m depth = 4ATA. EAN30 at 4ATA: 4 * 0.3 = 1.2 pp02
3) Look for the various 02 CNS and OTU exposure rates for the various pp02s calculated during step 2 on your C-3201 table and write them down.
4) Multiply the exposure rates by the planned time at the various depths.
5) Add up all the totals and you should now have the total planned OTU and CNS values for your planned dive.
Remember that it is unwise to exceed 80% CNS and not to exceed 300 OTUs within a 24 hour period.
Also take note that your CNS clock has a 90 min half time when out of the water.
---------- Post added June 24th, 2015 at 09:20 AM ----------
for simple square profile planning when doing no-deco diving you can use the table above.
1) Get you maximum pp02 at the deepest point of your dive. (ATA * fraction of 02) Example: EAN36 at 25m depth: 3.5ATA x 0.36 = 1.26pp02
2) decide what your total bottom time will be. Example: 40 minutes
3) Using the table above: Round your pp02 to the bigger number for conservancy. Example: 1.26 becomes 1,3 pp02.
4) Using the table above: Get the maximum single exposure value for 1.3. (1.3pp02 = 180 min max single exposure)
5) Now simply divide the planned bottom time from step 2 by the maximum from step 4. (40 min / 180 min = 22.2% CNS)
remember to also consider the 24 hour exposure max for planning repetitive dives.
---------- Post added June 24th, 2015 at 09:23 AM ----------
Please remember that there is no substitute for proper training...
If the calculations that I have provided does not make sense to you then seek out proper training from a respected instructor.
Similar threads
