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Listen - I do not know whre NOAA gets off putting out idiocy like this,
but you really need to take the cotton out of your ears . Time is one
element, ppo the other.

        1.4 is the number below which the incidence of seizure drops off
dramaticly. We use 1.4 for a MAXIMUM. Info from comnmercial data.

        Time , and the decompression requirements that follow the dive
and its concomittant exposure determine the degree to which this number
is reduced, as well as repetitive exposure, and other obvious
circumstances.

        As with nmost things in diving, the NOAA stupidity is ancient,
and without basis, and is moot - NOAA does not do jack in diving anyway.

        Again, there is no depth for which air is the correct gas.

Wrolf.Courtney@do*.co* wrote:
> 
> gmirvine@sa*.ne* wrote on 09/02/97:
> 
> >Wrolf, by your owon measure, you make no sense. 1.5 means nothing, you
> >pulled that out of your ass or off of some mindless TDI crap. If you set
> >an acceptable nitrogen ppp and an acceptable oxygen pp, you will find
> >that there is NO depth for which air is the right gas - you missed my
> >point. Thre is another dimesion to this that you are unaware of, which
> >is time, and therefore you make even less sense. Maximum ppn and ppo are
> the STARTING point only.
> 
>  >I would suggest starting over sans the attidude.
> 
>  1.  Directly from my posterior.  Yes, 1.6 ATA is the most accepted limit,
>  yes
>      the NOAA guidelines have times associated with each ppO2, yes I have
>  heard
>      1.4 going around recently.
> 
>  2.  Air looks pretty good to me in the 0 to 60 fsw range, in the range of
>      exposure times reachable with today's open circuit scuba equipment.
> 
>      I can understand the argument that the default gas pumped should be
>  EAN 32,
>      so that all recreational diving is done on "SafeAir".
> 
>  3.  I will immediately start over with a new attitude.
> 
>  Smiling face:    :-)
>  Smiling diver:   0-)
>  Tongue in cheek: :-P
> 
>        |
>        |
>       \|/
> 
>  Diver with tongue in cheek: 8-P
> 
> Safe Diving,
> 
> Wrolf
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