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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 06:07:14 -0400
To: Rodriguez <mikey@ma*.ne*>
From: Capt JT <captjt@mi*.co*>
Subject: Re:O2 exposure
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>

At 12:15 AM 9/10/02 -0400, Rodriguez wrote:
 > In other words, just because you sat for 40 minutes at 3.0 without toxing
today doesn't mean you can do it for 5 minutes tomorrow and not
tox.  It's a complete crap-shoot.  The best you can do is to keep
the exposure low (certainly never more than 1.6) and the odds will
be in your favor.

Without going into great detail, that's what I said, but then again only a 
moron or someone being the subject of a test or in a controlled environment 
would be doing 3.0




At 12:15 AM 9/10/02 -0400, Rodriguez wrote:
>At 05:22 PM 9/9/2002 -0400, Capt JT wrote:
>
>Hello JT,
>
>[snip]
>
> >susceptibilities of the exposed tissue. You must take into account PO2 and
> >duration of the exposure. Each person can have different levels of exposure
> >they can handle and some will say they have the correct answers on this
> >subject, but the only answer they have is for themselves or the test
> >subject when pushing the limits.
>
>[snip]
>
>You're completely wrong here.  Every study I've ever seen on
>susceptibility to O2 tox has consistently shown that there is no
>such thing as "being able to handle O2".  In every study, the
>same diver at the same PO2 over the course of the study has toxed
>as various different times, and no effort to correlate those times
>to fatigue, hydration, absolute pressure, lighting, moisture,
>nutrition, or any other factor has been successful.  In other
>words, just because you sat for 40 minutes at 3.0 without toxing
>today doesn't mean you can do it for 5 minutes tomorrow and not
>tox.  It's a complete crap-shoot.  The best you can do is to keep
>the exposure low (certainly never more than 1.6) and the odds will
>be in your favor.  The more extreme the dive, the more
>conservative you should be to keep those odds on your side.
>
>-Mike Rodriguez
><mikey@mi*.ne*>
>http://www.mikey.net/scuba
>Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n


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