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Steve, this is more than our comes at, and you do not need it any higher or even that high. I usully put 2000 psi in a low pressure 95 and that lasts 150-180 minutes. Steven Bliim wrote: > > Scott > > While I agree that 100% O2 is the optimal gas for decompression I might just > suggest that another reason that 80% is used is related to the pressure at > which O2 is available not just an inability to remain at 20 fsw / 6 msw. I > don't know the position in the USA but as I understand the position here in > Australia commercial O2 comes at about a maximum of 180 bar. While some > people in Sydney may have Haskels they are not readily available. If some > one knows where one can readily get one's O2 at 200 bar or that I have got > it totaly wrong I'm sure that they will let me know. What's more I will be > glad to be corrected. > > Regards > Steve Bliim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Hunsucker [mailto:swhac@pc*.gu*.ne*] > Sent: Friday, 18 February 2000 0:50 > To: Mike Wallace; techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: Pulmonary swelling > > Mike, > This is one of the upcoming discussions planned with the oxygen series of > posts. I plan on putting out CNS tonight, then pulmonary, then negative > affects of O2, then how we handle the risk, and finally things that we have > learned to make usage safer. If you can wait a couple of days I will get > to your question. > I will say in brief that most people using 80% do so because they have > done it for a while, or those that trained them did it that way. As I will > hopefully point out, 100% is the optimum gas for decompression. Then again > many people advocate the use of 80% because they can't stay at 20 FSW so > what does that tell you? > Scott Hunsucker > > At 09:18 PM 02/16/2000 -0600, Mike Wallace wrote: > > Anyone have any information or knowledge of studies of pulmonary swelling as > a result of 100% O2 for deco purposes? It's my understanding that this is > one reason that is given for using 80% rather than 100% for deco. > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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