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Does anyone have information or insight in terms of the benefits of back gas breaks in terms of decompression? Ie/ where on long dives, the benefit to your lungs greatly increases your ability to decompress. I guess that is pretty obvious, but what about on shorter dives where there will only be one or two back gas breaks. At 11:28 PM 5/16/2000 -0700, you wrote: > While breathing HBO mixes our system will become saturated w/ oxygen > and past this point we derive no benefit from breathing high pO2 > mixes: all we do from saturation on is create more radicals and this in > turn creates more damage. BACK GAS BREAKS are the mechanism that we use > to prevent from going over the saturation curve, remember there is no > benefit beyond it, and decreasing the risk. While breathing the BG our > cellular oxygen levels drop and our returning to the higher pO2 mix is merited. ---------------------------------- Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> NW Labor Systems, Inc http://www.nwls.com ----------------------------------
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