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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 Jsuw@ao*.co* wrote: > In a message dated 7/23/98 11:21:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > will@tr*.co* writes: > > > BTW, for this and several other good reasons, I've been > > diving with NO nitrogen anywhere in the bottom > > and deco mixes for about seven months now - I dive > > Heliox10 end-to-end, with pure O2 for deco starting > > at 20ft. > > Forgive a few potentially stupid questions: > > How warm is the water you dive? I thought that helium removes heat from your > body faster than nitrogen. Do you get cold breathing Heliox for most of your > dive? Below what water temperatures is the heat loss difference between > Nitrogen and Helium likely to make a difference? > Actually, that's a popular myth - yes, if you inflate your drysuit with helium, you will get dangerously chilled, but breathing helium won't affect your thermal balance. Check the archives - there are a couple of really good posts from physics-types explaining why this is so (actually, it may be in the rebreather list archives, I don't recall). Regards, -Will -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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