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No, I agree - you have to get away from the helium before it builds up. Richard Pyle wrote: > > > To tell you the truth, the more I see it, the shallower I make my aed > > for nitrogen. The problem then becomes that you do not have as much gas > > due to the lower degree of compressibility. > > This much I agree with - I started limiting my PN2 to about 2.5 atm as > soon as I started using the rebreather. The compressibility issue is > insignificant with a rebreather - even a semi-closed one. Put N2 in your > bailout cylinders. The only reason I use nitrogen at all anymore is to > alleviate the "helium willies", which I know you already know about. > > > Personally, I do not like the feel of a 130 air dive later on, so there > > is some kind of damage, so maybe just having ANY helium works, since a > > 130 trimix dive does not produce the same effect, and a 130 aed trimix > > dive does not produce the same ell as a 130 air dive. > > Everytime I go deeper than 100 feet on air I feel like shit that night > and the next morning. I realized that I always felt that way before, but > just figured it was related to diving in general. I don't feel that way > at all with the helium - not even after the days where I do two deep > ones, and even on dives when the PN2 is greater than it is for air at > 100-130. I don't think it's the presence of helium as much as it is the > elevated O2 on deco. > > > I am just going with what my experience tells me, but now we are in the > > mood to take it further to see hat the story is, besides, I like rabbit. > > When you do these experiments, let me know how the rabbit tells you > when its shoulder hurts. > > Don't get me wrong, george - I keep the N2 to a minimum also. It's just that > I am smart enough to know that "quickie" explanations like the RBC rigidity > thing are usually only a small part of the full picture, if any part at all. > I am also very dubious about doing deco on helium as compared to doing the > bottom on helium and the deco on N2. > > Rich > > Richard Pyle > Ichthyology, Bishop Museum deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or* > 1525 Bernice St. PH: (808) 848-4115 > Honolulu, HI 96817-0916 FAX: (808) 841-8968 > "The views are those of the sender and not of Bishop Museum" -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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