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  Someone 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?

  John Grogan replied:-
> ... in Malta last November ... [a] 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 Grogan

  Barb & Ian Marshall <marshall@va*.co*> replied:-
> 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".

Disinformation, likely, as if air scuba is well known and established, but
nitrox is something new that came in a UFO and is beyond his comprehension and
he doesn't want to be bothered with that sort of new stuff at his age.
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