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Dude, you mix it and I'll dive it. If you think "oxygen cleaning" is
necessary, then think about what the anal retentives will be doing wtih
hydrogen.

Actually since going to extended two per day workouts and much hihger
helium percentages than ever before, Bill Mee , Jarrod Jablonski , Chris
Werner and I have all found that deco is getting easier and easier, and
the after effects are getting less and less. Bill and I are still
experinmenting in these areas, but it is tough to do with JJ since he
dives so often - not worth injuring him . Bill and I only dive once in a
while, so can attempt these from "clean" starts.

It is going to be tough to beat extemely high heliums in the deco
category on fit divers, that much we can say for sure, but without
spending a lot of money, you will just have to dive lower pressures.

BUDDYDIGS@ao*.co* wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> ran across this on the web and thought some folks might be interested.....
> 
> COMEX has been experimenting with hydrogen gas as a diluent.
> 
> The upshot was they were doing saturation dives on a helium mix at 200 meters
> and then they would add hydrogen to get to depths of  260 for up to 8 hours
> and the deco back to the 200 level would just be a slow 1 meter per second
> ascent back to the 200 level.
> 
> They were finding that deco's could be 40 percent less than helium and they
> think even higher percentage reductions would not be unreasonable.
> 
> Anyway here is the link for more info - about 5 pages of reading
> 
> http://www.comex.fr/pagea.html
> 
> I guess if helium is your friend then hydrogen is the cute blonde next door
> with the free beers.
> 
> Hell, George Irvine could probably dive Wakulla on hydrogen with doing any
> deco.
> 
> So, when Wakulla goes REALLY deep you guys still have on more deco trick to
> pull out of your sleeve. No smokers for sure on those dives :)
> 
> Which reminds me, out of my own curiosity, are there any tunnels in Wakulla
> that appear to head deeper than the approx 300 you WKPP guys dive? Any reason
> to believe geology or hydrology wise that deeper sections should or shouldnt
> be there?
> 
> Buddy "yet to break the 33 meter mark" Welker

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