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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 11:53:16 -0500
From: Robert Wood <rwood@sp*.co*>
Organization: Spacebridge Networks
To: Steve Schultz <se2schul@un*.ma*.uw*.ca*>
CC: aquanaut <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: Dr. Bennett's Nitrox article


Steve Schultz wrote:
> 
> I think I know where this absolute bullshit is coming from.
> During my TDI Basic Nitrox course, they actually recommended carrying
> EAN39 as a bailout gas for MOD 130.  "you'll only be breathing the mix for
> a few seconds until you can get to the proper depth" which made me ask the
> question during the course - "why not just carry the proper mix"
> 
> Darwin will eventually triumph, especially if more strokes are breathing
> pO2 of 1.9!!!
> 
> Also, on this great course, I didn't have to do any dives on Nitrox, or
> analyse any mixes to get my card.  What a joke.
> 
> ss

	I took the very same course Steve as you know :^)
	I was much less knowledgeable then and and being the
	shy, retiring type, didn't qustion the statement;
	but the obvious question did come to mind....
	and these are some of the better insructors around.

[\] Robert Wood
The St. Lawrence River - fresh, warm, visible diving.
mailto:rwood@sp*.co*
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