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I know this may be a dumb question, but...
I've checked quite a bit of literature and doing the deco after a long
dive all the information and courses I've seen talk about doing the
6m and 3m stops on 100% O2 (or 80% O2, 20% N2 as a bit of a buffer at
the 6m stop). Now, with respect to the few O2 hits I've seen reported
on these stops and the hammering it gives your system, why dont more
people use something like a mix of argox (sp ?) or neox - like a 20%
O2, balance inert gas, for the deco stops. It seems like this would
give you the same tissue gradients for off-gassing the nitrogen and
helium as pure O2, with little increase in the deco requirements (or
is that wrong). Does O2 give some metabolic advantages as well ?

Cheers,
Andy.

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