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At 11:06 PM 12/21/99 -0500, Bill Wolk wrote: >On12/21/99 6:36 PM, Mike Rodriguez wrote: > >>It's well known that divers can build a tolerance to narcosis, >>but they are still impaired when under high PN2s. While this >>may not be life-threatening when everything is going well, it >>*is* life-threatening when things are going badly. > >Mike - > >I want to clear up this statement before someone misinterprets it: > >Divers *CANNOT* build up a safe tolerance to nitrogen narcosis. A diver >can overlearn tasks so that a relatively narrow set of skills can be >performed adequately when impaired -- that's what deep air divers think >is "tolerance" -- but when an event occurs outside of the norm, the >entire decision making loop breaks down -- potentially dangerously. OK, I agree with your clarification. >I have no doubt Peter Hess has made many productive dives to the Monitor >over the years; the point that deep air junkies don't seem to understand >is that the same dives can be made much more safely and would have been >far more productive on mix. Also more fun. Colors and sounds seem more vivid, and I remember more on mix than I ever did on air. When I fork over ~$70 for a tech dive, I damn sure want to remember what I saw! :) -Mike Rodriguez <mikey@ma*.co*> Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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