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Much of technical diving's load is keeping track of the endless complications
caused by narcosis and bends caused by diluents. Diluents are the devil in
diving, complicating things and making sets and training complicated and
bulkier. It seems to me that an ultimate way to dive up to 100 or 200 feet
would be a <reliable medication to prevent oxygen poisoning> up to say 7 bar
ppO2. Then divers could reach 200 feet (60 meters) on a good old plain simple
light oxygen rebreather, no diluent bends, no narcosis, no computerization, no
fiddly correlation of gas flow with gas proportion calculations, no ppO2
meters, none of all this messing-about!
  How much work <has> been done into the detailed mechanics and biochemistry
and neurocybernetics of what causes divers' oxygen poisoning?

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