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From: Mullins, Robert
To: techdiver
Subject:  NITROX MACHINES
Date: Friday, April 28, 1995 4:44PM


Sorry if this is a duplicate post.....I sent it a few days ago when there 
were problems
with the server.
<Original text follows>

A recent article in Sport Diver magazine (May/June 95, p74) says
that at the '95 DEMA trade show, Dick Rutkowski had a turnkey system
for generating nitrox using a gas scrubber technology, rather than
blending O2 and air.  The system was touted as being the technology
that would enable dive shops to provide safe, cheap nitrox  "to the
masses."

According to the article, output from the system can be fed directly into
a standard SCUBA  compressor meeting certain basic cleaning requirements.
It can be programmed to produce any mix with between 8% and 40% O2, within
0.5% accuracy.

Are we that close?  Should I as a recreational (future tech??) diver be 
interested.....?

no, let me rephrase that.....I as a recreational diver AM interested, based 
on the limited
amount I have read about the benefits of nitrox......I'd like to solicit 
comments/opinions from
the group......I expect a certain amount of "this is not for everybody....I 
am a
professional.....don't try this in your home."

But really, this sounds good.....what do you folks think????

Bob Mullins
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
mullinsr@hq*.hh*.or*
301.215.8636

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