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Well, at least it'd make Deco "go by" faster...  gasses with anesthetic
properties ...
"how was your decompression?"  "great, I don't remember a thing"

-Laura


> 
> > We don't usually breath argon because it is extremely narcotic.  worse
> > than nitrogen . try neon 
> > janet bieser wahoo-capt.janet@ju*
> >
> Argon is supposedly about three times as narcotic as
> Nitrogen.  This means if you used a 50/50 ArgOx mix
> for deco from 70ft up, the max EAD is about 100ft.
> 
> Consider also that you save having to carry
> an intermediate range deco bottle, as the ArgOx50 
> would be optimal for deco all the way to the surface.
> 
> With a CCR, you could fill the deco diluent
> bottle with ArgOx90, and also use
> the same bottle to fill your drysuit.
> 
> Neon would work, too, of course, but it's far more
> expensive than Argon.
> 
> -Will
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