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I pay $63.00 for the same size cylinder. Frank Riffel wrote: > Bill Wolk wrote: > > > Bottom line -- if you're coming to the States to mix dive -- better call > > ahead. It's not as widely available as you might think unless you're > > prepared to mix it yourself. > > Uhh now I am quite surprised. I always though most US gas divers do > the mixing by themself. I can understand that someone doesnt want to > do the more dangerous Nitrox fills, but with Trimix... > Around here it's quite popular to dive easy to mix HeliAir's like 10/52. > Even if you don't have a filling whip you can easily produce such mixes > soley with a compressor, a precision gauge and of course an analyzer. > One further advantage of such mixes is that you dont have to think about > oxygen service of the tanks & regs. On the downside you only get mixes > with have a lower ppO2 at MOD and that the mix is becoming hypoxic > in the shallow regions. The consequence of the lower fO2 (typicaly less > than 4%) is some extra deco time. > We do many dives on 10/52 and a ppO2 of around 0.9 bar with EAN50 > and O2 as deco gas. On average dives the additional deco time is > insignificant (~10 min), if its more we also employ traditional trimix and/or > > EAN32 as third deco gas. > > Regards Frank > > P.S. Whats the helium price in the US? > We pay ~ $150 for an 320cuft cylinder. > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.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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