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"breathing rate" is basicly insignificant, but you could get effects if you breathed too little relative to normal breahting. The problem is that you get relaxed and do not produce much CO2, and obviously have very hig O2, so your reflex drops away. This could make for less gas exchange, maybe. I ignore it , and try to breathe about once per minute to save the gas. There is no reason to do that other than I do not want to put the correct amount of gas in the water or lug it around, or have to refill it. I really try to use half of a bottle and save the other half for the next dive and just leave the regs on the bottles in my van, and use what's left of my stages for breaks so I do not have to refill or break down my doubles. I also do not liek to get cold, so breahting infreqauentlyh saves on heat loss. Some of guys try to breaths as much as they can to get good ventilation and gas exchnage, and that is probably better. David Geffen wrote: > > Hi George, > > I've been following the discussions on deco theory on techdiver > for some time now, but miss any mention of breathing rate. > > Is this non-relevant? I could imagine that a low breathing rate > during bottom time would be beneficial insofar as less ongassing > is occurring. OTOH, would it be beneficial to breathe more while > offgassing? > > Regards, > David Geffen -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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