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I prefer two shorts to one long, but most people are taught fear and
loathing of this.

AKimbrel@ao*.co* wrote:
> 
> If in open water why not cut the bottom time back and make two dives instead
> of one avoiding an outragious DECO?
>  Just a thought, what you think George?
> AL Kimbrel
> Now for the real answer..........
> 
> In a message dated 99-09-09 22:13:11 EDT, dmackay@cg*.wa*.ca* writes:
> 
> << 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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