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I think you mean Argon suit flush, Mario Weidner first made this post below= =20 and VBTech has started to flood our dry suits before our dives 1-2 times=20 and the guys notice a big difference, we just bring a K bottle on the boat= =20 and rig it with reg and standard LP hose. Then before your dive go fill=20 your suit, dump out the neck and do it again. You can see photos of this on= =20 my site. >Hi Ingemar, what you said in your last email, makes sense to me! Looks like lot of= people don't know what coldwater-diving is like. Anyway, one should not overvalue= the advantage of Argon along with a Trilaminate drysuit. For me personal, while diving almost strictly in cold water environments (temperature around=20 34-50=B0F), the combination of a 9mm compressed neopren dry-suit plus a electrical= heated undersuit along with several layers of thinsulate underwear, plus dry=20 gloves is the first choice. The use of Argon only makes sense, if you completely flood your suit before your dive, to ensure, that absolutely no air is left in the suit. You do flooding, when you inflate your suit with Argon 1-2 times and deflate again, so the much denser gas Argon has pushed out the air inside of your suit. With this outfit, I had no problem, diving under the pack-ice of= =20 the North-Polar circle, going down for 350ft with dive-time of 100+ minutes.=20 Besides that, I do dives almost every weekend in cold-water lakes (approx. 40=B0F)= =20 and do dives in the 450-550ft range with dive-times of 80-140 minutes without= having any thermo-problems. The Typhoon XCM-heated undersuit along with Argon suit inflation works great than. Mario At 08:53 AM 6/18/01 +0300, Manos Manoli wrote: >What is an Argon suit flash or how is a suit purged with Argon >before diving ??? >I didn't get the story ...burp the air out of the neck seal and the > argon which is heavier stays in. > >I understand that it is a must for trimix dives , due to helium thermal >loss but is there a big difference vs a nitrox mix ? > >Manos Manoli > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the= =20 water" Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ Email captjt@mi*.co* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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