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At 08:59 AM 06/03/97 GMT, you wrote: > >>> During a recent Dive Con open water, the subject came up about >>> whether or not to use 100% oxygen for an injured diver diving on >>> nitrox. >>> Any comments? > >As an interesting aside, I was diving in Malta last November and tried to >get Nitrox. The scuba centre told me that Nitrox was illegal there and >chamber staff would refuse to treat anyone who had used nitrox - apparently >they believe that use of nitrox totally messes up O2 recompression therapy. > This is despite many representations made by the dive industry there and >published papers proving this to be false. > >It seems that there is still a lot of myth/rumour surrounding nitrox! >John. >-- > >John Grogan This reminds me of skin diver magazine publishing similar thoughts of a chamber down south. At an Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society meeting held in Toronto shortly after the article, this myth was dispelled. When questioned as to why a chamber operator would say such a thing, Hal Koch then chief of Hyperbaric Medicine at Toronto General Hospital replied "we know not what they do, and nor do they". Ian marshall@va*.co* <http://www.vaxxine.com/advtech> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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