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On12/21/99 11:25 PM, Mike Rodriguez wrote: >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! :) And you end up "finding" whole "new" sections of the wreck -- How many times have you said: "I've been this way a hundred times but never knew there was a passage to the engine room!" The sobering part is that this also happens to me when I dive the same wreck with more helium. Two weeks ago I dove a South Florida wreck called the Hydroatlantic with an 80' END mix I had in the tanks for a deeper dive (in the past I'd used 100' END) and "saw" more of the wreck than ever before. Just shows how subtle narcosis is even at shallow depths -- which blows another deep air myth out of the water. Time to pump up the back gas. Best - Bill -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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