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> Date sent: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 18:45:44 -0800 > From: fdc02@ix*.ne*.co* (Doug Chapman ) > Subject: Nitrox Stickers and Tank Markings > To: techdiver@terra.net > On Nov.14, Ken Sallot wrote: > >.... Your back is bottom mix. Nothing else. This way you know whats > >on your back..... > > Not necessarily so old boy! Depends on the planned dive profile. Its > not unusual to put bottom mix in a stage with air on the back for dives > of about 300ft or shallower, especially for wreck diving. If you get > blown off the wreck (just say no!) and cannot make it back to any > staged deco gas, then its a lot shorter deco on air than trimix, as you > drift along on your lift bag. Hopefully you do have a lookout on deck > who can muster the chase boat which can drop some nitrox and O2? > > Doug Chapman The way I label my tanks, the bottom mix is on your back. Period. Nothing else. The question I answered was how I'm marking my tanks. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ken Sallot kens@uf*.ed* (904) 392-2007 CIRCA http://grove.ufl.edu/~ken -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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