At 11:34 AM 3/23/2000 +0000, stuart.morrison@sw*.co*.uk* wrote:
>1. The oxygen-window is as open as possible with 100% O2 especially
>    at the 20-foot stop.  Now you're gonna ask what the heck is
>    an oxygen-window, right?  It's not a complicated subject, but I
>    don't have time to do it justice now.  I get asked this all the
>    time, so it's probably worthwhile to write something on it.  I'll
>    do that in the next few days and email you a copy.  For now, let's
>    just say that 100% O2 will allow you to off-gas faster then
>    straight Buhlmann (and intuition) says you should.  In fairness, 80%
>    does too, but it's disproportionately less efficient and has other
>    important disadvantages.


A little more on this:  You were too fair to 80%.  With any nitrogen (or 
helium) in the mix whatsoever, you need to decompress at shallower depths 
because (see mike's signature). Then, since we don't have time to explain, 
lets just say the oxygen window is the partial pressure of oxygen, and that 
the higher the oxygen window, the faster or better the offgassing.  Given 
that, 20ft on oxygen is going to get you decompressed much faster than 80% 
at 30, MUCH MUCH faster than 80% at 20ft and MUCH MUCH MUCH faster than 80% 
at 10ft, where you are spending the majority of your time, anyway, if you 
choose strokemix.  This also reinforces why the majority of the oxygen stop 
should be done as deep as possible despite what (see mike's signature) says.


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  NW Labor Systems, Inc
  http://www.nwls.com

  Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
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   is willing to pay for it)

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