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--------------33928D5AA72D7B1135B710F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greg, The whole point of deco is gas exchange. To do that one must breath. Your statement of "It is easy to cut your breathing in half at deco if you think about it." is silly at best. Jeff (PS did you ever notice that only dorks have email addresses like techdiver or eanxdiver or bigdickdiver etc...? ) (PPS...why did you take my original private reply to a public discussion?) Greg Kuiper wrote: > Jeff Bentley, > > You should know that when you are at deco you are basically at rest. > CO2 retention is not much of a problem when you are not exerting > yourself. Even with skip breathing you are offgassing plenty of CO2 at > deco since you are at rest. > > The deco ceiling is there for a reason. If you were in a cave with an > emergency and low on air would you continue to breathe normally or would > you simply breathe out your gas as you suggested for the decompression > stops. ? > > Ommited decompression probably won't kill you but it will hurt like > hell. Why would you argue against trying to extend your gas supply and > your deco time by breathing at a slower rate when an emergency would > dictate it? > > Greg Kuiper -- Jeff Bentley jeffbentley@mi*.co* http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffbentley --------------33928D5AA72D7B1135B710F8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Greg, <p>The whole point of deco is gas exchange. To do that one must breath. <p>Your statement of <br>"It is easy to cut your breathing in half at deco if you think about it." <br>is silly at best. <p>Jeff <p>(PS did you ever notice that only dorks have email addresses like <br>techdiver or eanxdiver or bigdickdiver etc...? ) <p>(PPS...why did you take my original private reply to a public discussion?) <br> <p>Greg Kuiper wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Jeff Bentley, <p>You should know that when you are at deco you are basically at rest. <br>CO2 retention is not much of a problem when you are not exerting <br>yourself. Even with skip breathing you are offgassing plenty of CO2 at <br>deco since you are at rest. <p>The deco ceiling is there for a reason. If you were in a cave with an <br>emergency and low on air would you continue to breathe normally or would <br>you simply breathe out your gas as you suggested for the decompression <br>stops. ? <p>Ommited decompression probably won't kill you but it will hurt like <br>hell. Why would you argue against trying to extend your gas supply and <br>your deco time by breathing at a slower rate when an emergency would <br>dictate it? <p>Greg Kuiper</blockquote> <pre>-- Jeff Bentley jeffbentley@mi*.co* <A HREF="http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffbentley">http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffben tley</A></pre> </html> --------------33928D5AA72D7B1135B710F8-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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