Rich, think it through. There is no reason you can not carry
adequate deco gas . To be forced to switch to deco gas in the 
silted out companionway of a ship at 250 feet becasue something
jsut went wrong is silly. If you have a PFO or some other 
predisposiiotn to DCS, but like to roll the dice anyway, take
the deco gas, but don't get killed doing it, and don't use the
smae kind of one dimensional, myopic logic that was the genesis of
this concept in the first place. 

   People that want to play deco weenie need to bring a full face 
mask and make arrangements to be watched while they burn their 
lungs up with oxygen. Again and again, convoluted solutions to 
problems casued by other convolutions and circumstances that 
ahould not be bought into the dive are no excuse to put everyone
at risk and inconvenience. 

   I hate to even respond to this, but you present yourself as 
knowing what you are talking about , and you do in your area, but
to recommend diving deco gas on your back could cause someone to do it
cause Rich says its ok and get killed. I see the results of this'kind of 
emulation down here in the paper every week, and in some cases, when I 
am out diving on the commercial boats. Ask Tom Mount about this.   

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