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JT,

In reading this.  I thought the first dives on the "Ostfrisland" was done by
Gary Gentile?  I don't remember reading that he or the guy he was diving
with used Heliox?  Maybe I just don't remember reading correctly or Gentile
wasn't the first diver on the wreck?

Art.



>Example, the first dive to the wreck "Ostfrisland" depth 380ft was done
>with a heliox mix, there is no nitrogen in that mix, but the plan was to
>switch to a nitrox mix for deco which has a high nitrogen content. What
>happen to one of the divers was he nearly pass out from narcosis just after
>the switch. All the first divers to that wreck were deep air divers and one
>out of three had a problem of "Not handling it", I don't like those odds.
>
>JT

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