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Yo, Adriaan, patience is the # 1 rule when it comes do technical diving. Sometimes it takes about 24 hours for someone to get to your questions here --- we are out diving ya know. Heliox is not a viable option for open circuit scuba -- the decompressions just get too long, and the chill factor is too high. Hence it must be buffered with nitrogen ie: Trimix. But lets set that aside for a moment. So ya wanna dive heliox ..... its used for commercial and special military operations almost exclusively. You can get trained for Heliox diving from most any commercial diving vocational school. You will have to go thru the steps of being a tender, air diver, etc, before they will let you even sniff heliox. Oh and expect to pay about 12-24 grand US for the appropriate commercial diver training. There are books --- that have all the heliox data in them -- US Navy Mixed Gas Diving Manual, NOAA Diving Manual, COMEX diving manual etc. You will not find heliox or trimix tables online -- mostly they are proprietary and kept away from the untrained in a feeble attempt to keep them (the divers) alive. Its a bit more complicated than filling a tank with balloon gas and reading a table. hope this helps you ---- Do it Right or Don't Do it At All At 04:50 PM 9/27/1998 +0200, you wrote: > >List, > >Since nobody seems willing to react or form an opinion, let me make it a >bit simpler. Can I fill a bottle with HeliOx (or for that matter, Trimix), >and just go diving? Without having taken any "technical diving" course? >Wouldn't that be the same as racing the Indy 500 with just an ordinary >driver licence and no knowledge whatsoever of racing cars? >So let me ask once again, where can I obtain a c-card that allows me to >dive HeliOx mixtures?( I know where to get Trimix education, so don't >bother about that, it's the HeliOx I'm interested in). Or put in a >different way, is there an agency out there that teaches the use of HeliOx, >with the appropriate tables, theory etc.. BTW: Are there any Heliox or >Trimix tables on the net? I read in the archives that the US NAVY has some >but I can't find them online... > > >Regards, > >Adri Haine,Belgium,Europe > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > Joel D. Silverstein Scuba Training + Travel Co. http://www.NitroxDiver.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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