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I was Dan's buddy on one of the dives he mentions below. Water was about 45 surface and a lot colder down below. Including deco, we spent a little over an hour in the water and neither of us got cold. Argon is a wonderful thing. One negative though, if you think it takes a long time to fill your suit now, wait til you try argon. It does not flow quite as fast as air. If your suit has a flow restricting orifice in the inflator (like the old viking sport) it is really slow. I have to pump all the way down, instead of waiting till I need to relieve the squeeze. >> What is the actual improvement on warmth by using Argon. Is it really >> that perceivable in comparison to air ? > > Jorge Muxica > >> > >Jorge, > >I dive Lake Superior, where the water temperature on deeper dives seldom >rises above 37 deg. F. I started using argon for suit inflation last year, >and the difference is dramatic. The air coming out of the inflator always >felt cold, but argon doesn't. Definitely worthwhile for our environment. > >Dan > >========================================================= >Daniel R. Fountain [Lake Superior] >dfountain@ao*.co* >CIS 76545,1467 Tim Taylor taylor@ru*.ne* Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve web page http://www.rust.net/~taylor/mupc/wfish/wfish.htm 1997 FSUPC Photo Contest Rules, entry form, previous winners 1997 Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival information http://www.rust.net/~taylor +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Please send messages for the WreckDiver list to: wreckdiver@wreckdiver.com Send subscription and help requests to: wreckdiver-request@wreckdiver.com +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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