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On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, A.Appleyard wrote:

> 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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I have a question about this!!  Say it would be possible to offset O2 
toxicity symptoms.  You can only metabolize so much oxygen, and after 
that point is reached the oxygen would then be dissolved into ones system 
unused.  Provided no toxicity problems occured, it would then be possible 
to become bent on oxygen.  If this is possible, I would guess that the 
decompress schedule would be lighter due to not only the offgassing of O2, 
but the metabolizing of O2.  It could also be guessed the the greater the 
workload the less the decompression schedule.  My question is then would 
it be possible to dissolve this much O2 into the body to cause 
decompression concerns?
	Then, with the recent debate of O2 narcosis, would it be worse 
then N2 narcosis, and therefore feasible to do this? 

Flame away!!!!!

Aloha
Tony

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