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No, but osteoncrosis can be caused my many things. Stress injuries in sports, to much booze, poor diet habits, omitted deco without symptoms etc. I guess it is a risk that if you plan to enjoy life let alone diving you must accept. As I have done years of gas diving, multiple saturation dives (NOAA programs) , and completed thousands of decompression dives, I will continue to take the risk. and I do have ostenonecrosis in my left ankle (long bone portion). My doc who is also a hyperbaric physcian doubts the diving did it. He thinks itis most likely from a life time of impact sports which used to include (when my body tolerated it) marathons, in addition to karate, lifting, rollerblading, and all the other sports I do (even getting back into short 40 minute runs again) Given the risk benefit evaluation I will stick to 1.5 po2 for decompression and 1.3 for my bottom mixes and gamble that it will keep me overall safer for a longer period life. Also i think the high po 2 you refer to is much more than what we use for diving activities. It is really exciting that the longer we dive the more intense our diving becomes the more aware we are that in realility we are all a bunch of guinnea pigs and that our histories may document the true long term effects of diving and all the other things we each engage in. Damn, maybe we should all light upo a camel, eat a high fat, low carb diet and set on our butts. Then we would know what was killing us. I Choice is play hard in life and take the risk, or sit on your butt and let life pass by. This is meant to be humorous, but we do have to accept we are involved in a sport that has limted true scientific understanding and we are the real guinnea pigs. I once attended a NOAA sponosered hyperbaric medicine course that George Bond MD Capt USN ( father of US Navy Sat Diving) staffed. He made a simple but in depth statement regarding DCS/DCI "You all make a big deal out of half times, in realility what takes place is you put someone in the chamber to test a schedule, if they get a niggle, You holler oh Jesus and put another number in" From what we knew then and what we know now that seems to be the best summary of true scientific diving knowledge I have heard anyone express. Tom Mount You wrote: > >Has anyone seen any updates on the theory that Osteonecrosis is caused >by elevated PO2s? > >Barrie Kovish >Vancouver, Canada > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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