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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:29:27 -0700
To: techdiver@terra.net
From: bmk@ds*.bc*.ca* (Barrie Kovish)
Subject: Re: Physiologic safety parameters for S
Cc: heseltin@hs*.us*.ed*

>Peter wrote:
>
>That sounds right. Drager figures that most divers will need 0.5 litres at
>moderate swimming exertion. I think you could easily drive this up
>to 1.0 - 1.5L

With pure O2 in shallow water I found that 0.8 l/m was about right for 
very very easy swimming (~200 meters/hour).  At rest 0.8 l/m was too much 
and for any attempt to travel some distance ( ~2 km/hour) 0.8 l/m was 
not enough.  

Barrie

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