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Hi, Steve
At 12:09 01/02/99 -0800, you wrote:

>SNIP
>
>>that Nitrox should be banned because we'd all end up toxing, and if we DID
>>get bent instead of toxed, we'd have used-up all our UPTDs and OTUs, and
>>couldn't be safely treated in a chamber.
>
>I find this comment interesting in that by the time the chamber sees the 
>patient, he will have reset his O2 clock (CNS). Pulmonary may be another
>matter
>but of secondary concern as very few divers are going to be anywhere near
>the 
>pulmonary limit (even with a full day of diving).
> 
>I find this irresponsible of the doctor. Did you get his name?
>
>Steve 


The doctor in question didn't make the UPTD/OTU statement. That was me. I
was summarising comments made by several Australian Hyperbaric experts a
few years ago when use of the dreaded Nitrox was spreading.

As for his name, I'm trying to get an email address for the guy to ask him
if he was trying to be funny..

BW

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