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> I see that you still haven't changed from your Palua days or radical trimix
> days. Always curious to see where the edge is. Hope none of us ever find
> the edge from the wrong side, sort of like looking back up at the edge of
> the cliff you just walked off.

No, it's different.  When I was in Palau, I was inventing what I was 
doing as I went along with a single 80 at 200 feet.  With the canister 
test, I'm doing it in 30 feet or less, in very controlled conditions, 
with plenty of OC gas.  I'm not doing it to find some limit; I'm doing it 
to get insight into what the limits of the rig are, and the 
characteristics of the warning signs of a failing canister.  That way, 
I'll have greater confidence in how long a canister will last prior to 
making a 400' dive, so I can leave a huge margin for error.  In the Palau 
days, I would have been pushing the canister past it's life in the middle 
of a 400' dive, and worrying about deco only after a problem was evident.

Rich

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