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Well, there is the obvious that we all problably recognize, Steve, but the most insidious is the 120 to 170 zone where you really can't "feel" much impairment, and that is where the unexplained accidents seem to occur. In our diving, it is where the stupid stuff happens, so we do not do it at all. Narcosis is like boiling a frog - if you put the frog in some water, turn on the stove, and bring up the heat, he might sit there until boiled. On the other hand, if you tried throwing him into a pot of boiling water , he would jump out. You take a hit of air at 200+ after being on gas, you will feel it a couple of minutes later very vividly. If you go dwon to 200+ on air, you may not not. When you get into the big numbers, you don't really care. Given my choice, I always dive mix, even at 100 feet, but in the Project, we deco on nitrox 35% from 120 up, but we have gas on our backs, and we have come up from the deep stops on another trimix. We do not allow air diving anymore. I personally will not dive with anyone diving air - I don't have to. There is nothing to be learned form impaired diving, and really deep air diving is nothing more than drug abuse -just look at the players there. The dive training organizations are full of dopes who think there is some ability to do this, or some machoism associated with it. There are some very, very, very stupid people in diving instruction. We are not talking Harvard Business School graduates, we are talking work at the Seven Eleven or teach diving assholes. Keep in mind also, Steve, that the many "deep air" courses require little or no money to teach, but if you can require them, you can make a nice profit. Hopefully, we get a few of these deaths to bite some ass, and we get the insurance companies to quit insuring it. Steve Schinke wrote: > > Just curious but what to you consider deep air diving??? > > STEVE > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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