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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:59:31 -0400
From: Dan MacKay <dmackay@cg*.wa*.ca*>
To: kirvine@sa*.ne*, cavers@cavers.com
Subject: Decompression Question
Hi George and to anyone who might have an answer,

On my longer dive profiles which are typically 30 - 50 minutes @ 250', I always
use a 16/50 mix with 50% & 100% for deco. At the end of these dives (or longer
duration) I have blown my CNS clock away. For a 50 minute exposure I have a
total
CNS clock of ~180%. This does not appear to cause me a problem as I have been
doing a couple of dives a week using profiles like this for a couple of years
now
and this has not proved a problem. The only time I think that I ran into this as
a problem was about 4 years ago when I was diving a lot of deep air with 36 and
80 for deco (ok it was before I saw the light) on the last two dives I did in a
two week period I couldn't breath by the time I hit my 20' stop. Symptoms didn't
abate till I was on the surface for about 15 min. In anycase I don't do that
now.
I know this is small potatoes compared to what you and JJ do on a normal WKPP
dive. What do you do just ignore it? or what is your philosophy on this?

Thanks,
Dan

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