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George M. Irvine III <gmiiii@in*.co*> wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.Ha*.Or*> wrote:
>>During our first trimix dives, we had doubles with nitrox, and a single 
>>of trimix.  That worked fine - the only reason I ended up switching to my 
>>present OC system is that I could fit more gas in a better-balanced package.
>
>   Rich, I really hope you did not know any better at the time. Maybe you
>   can tell us all where your redundency is here, how to share gas, how
>   you would avoid a tox while getting out of where you had gotten into
>   like this. ...

The illustration of Rich's OC trimix setup in the Mount/Gilliam mix book
shows a pony of bottom mix as backup.  Being in open water, the route to
the deco nitrox MOD is straight up, so not a huge amount of backup gas
was needed.

-- 
Anthony DeBoer
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