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Thanks. How about gas consumption during the "working" phase of 
a dive - would someone who _consumes_ 16l/min have less bubbles 
than someone who consumes 24l/min?

>  Some of  guys try to breaths as much as they can to get good
> ventilation and gas exchnage, and that is probably better.
Does that coincide with doing light swimming on deco?

David

> "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

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