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Jeff Bentley,

Of course I meant the comment "to modify your breathing if you are short
on deco gas".  

If an emergency situation comes up that causes me to extend my
decompression and I don't have enough deco gas or back gas then I am
going to slow down my breathing to extend my deco. as long as possible
before surfacing.

Example:
360' trimix dive,  Buddy gets entagled in wreck and has back gas failure
due to a number of reasons. He shares long hose with me and it takes an
additional twenty minutes to get him free and to the first deco stop. 
We both now have an awful lot of deco ahead and not enough gas at our
current breathing rate.

Do you think it would it would be better to continue breathing at a
normal pace and blow your decompression or slow down your breathing,
relax and get as much deco as possible?

It is easy to cut your breathing in half at deco if you think about it.

Greg Kuiper
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