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But david, that wouldn't work here, because there's over 3 times as many feet as there are meters!! :-P At 03:07 PM 9/29/98 +0100, you wrote: >All > >>If one were going to use trimix in the deep rec/lite tec range, as many >>have been advocating here, for moderate exposures, , say, 100-160', 20-40 >>minute bottom, and wanted to have a fairly standard mix to use rather than >>doing a different mix for every dive, what would one use? > >As a slight digression, it is worth developing standard mixes and tables for >ranges of depths and times. I dive mixes for every 10 m, i.e. I use 50, 60, >70, 80 metre mixes together with the corresponding tables... My run times >are also in 5 minute increments (easy to remember) - usually 3 options with >the middle run time being the planned run time. This RT is usually set at >around 90 minutes due to the water temperature in the UK. > >My tables for my 80m mix (16/44) go in 5 metre increments i.e. 80, 75, 70, >65, 60, 55, 50. Thus if we mix for an 80 metre dive and weather precludes >diving this wreck, and we have to do a 63m wreck, then I would simply dive >my 65 m tables for this gas. > >For multiple day diving, I see a penalty of around 4 minutes maximum. I use >the same tables but add in a minute here and there (one minute 3 m deeper >than my first mandatory stop, 1 minute in the middle somewhere and 2 minutes >on my last stop at 6 m. This is in addition to 10 m/minute ascents and deep >stops added. > >My tables are laminated and therefore re-usable. > >David Shimell >Project Manager, Sequent Computer Systems Ltd., Sandton, South Africa. >Email: shimell@se*.co* <mailto:shimell@se*.co*> > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. ----------------------------- Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> NW Labor Systems http://www.nwls.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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