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--------------23314BE0EC7B76C8B9230EA9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit By popular request, I got my information on Hydrox from Mixed Gas Diving Tom Mount & Brett Gilliam Watersport Books ISBN 0-922769-41-9 Published 1993 by Watersport Publishing, Inc. You could try getting this from Amazon.com: Mixed Gas Diving The correct percentage at which hydrogen - oxygen mixtures become explosive is 4% O2. This gives it a minimim operating depth of about 100 fsw. As well as the travel gas (e.g. air) to reach 100fsw, if diving scuba, a transition gas of, say Nitrox 4 is needed. Otherwise while switching from the travel gas to the Hydrox 4, the mixture in the diver's lungs would exceed 4% O2, potentially leading to an explosion. All told, it doesn't look useful for scuba applications. In saturation diving, if the habitat is at or below 100fsw with an appropriate gas, there would be no need for a separate transition or travel gas. --Wrolf http://www.concentric.net/~wrolf --------------23314BE0EC7B76C8B9230EA9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> By popular request, I got my information on Hydrox from <P>Mixed Gas Diving <BR>Tom Mount & Brett Gilliam <BR>Watersport Books <BR>ISBN 0-922769-41-9 <BR>Published 1993 by Watersport Publishing, Inc. <P>You could try getting this from Amazon.com: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0922769419/wrolfswreck/">Mixed Gas Diving</A> <P>The correct percentage at which hydrogen - oxygen mixtures become explosive is 4% O2. This gives it a minimim operating depth of about 100 fsw. <P>As well as the travel gas (e.g. air) to reach 100fsw, if diving scuba, a transition gas of, say Nitrox 4 is needed. Otherwise while switching from the travel gas to the Hydrox 4, the mixture in the diver's lungs would exceed 4% O2, potentially leading to an explosion. <P>All told, it doesn't look useful for scuba applications. In saturation diving, if the habitat is at or below 100fsw with an appropriate gas, there would be no need for a separate transition or travel gas. <P>--Wrolf <P><A HREF="http://www.concentric.net/~wrolf">http://www.concentric.net/~wrolf</A>& nbsp;</HTML> --------------23314BE0EC7B76C8B9230EA9-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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