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On the "nitrogen is bad" subject:

Is this correct?  In a perfect world you'd only breath heliox (helium/oxygen)
and use argon for inflation?  

I read somewhere that you needed the narcotic properties of nitrogen to off-set
some effect of helium... I think this was Excely and I thought the depth was
sub 400.  But for recreational divers would heliox be preferred (assuming money
was no object)?  In other words... if money didn't matter at all would diving
to 60 feet on heliox be safer than air?  Is there any reason to use nitrogen at
all?

-ben
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