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David, what you say is true, but I think Alton was only talking about its effects on breathing heat loss. your right air or argon are the way to go for inflation gas. Alan In a message dated 2/23/01 10:03:12 AM, dwiden@ho*.co* writes: >Alton >I'm with Jim on this one. You can have all the subject matter experts, >theory, math, periodic tables to argue the thermo point. I know from >personal experiences that when the helium rich mix hits my chest in the >dry suit, I get a cooler feeling then when air or argon is used - period. I >am colder at the end of the dive when a helium rich mix was used - dumb on >my part. Did it once and won't do it again. >David >>-----Original Message-- >>Subject: Re: More about breathing Helium thermal loss >>For what it is worth, I recently was involved in a case in >>which the thermal >>capacity of Helium and it's effect on a diver breathing it >>(i.e. it's insulation >>qualities were not discussed) was debated Alan Pelstring S. Fl. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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