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Old 06-01-05, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Juz
Personally, and I honestly feel deco is a very personal thing
Only if you're a solo diver, otherwise its a team thing.

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Originally Posted by iainmsmith
If using O2, then the extra 0.2 bar would seem primarily useful for keeping inert gas in solution.
And controlling bubble size.
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Originally Posted by NotDeadYet
I'm not even convinced the whole idea that the percentage concept even works, it has no experimental basis and was just thought up by IANTD when they were writing the courses.
Are those numbers not just a linear interpolation of Bill Hamilton's NOAA limits which were experimentally derived? Were they not intended to be used as a dosage?

Here's an ancient article by him for anyone interested.


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Originally Posted by NotDeadYet
I just don't think it is as simple as trading off the various limits as in the %CNS idea.
Agreed.
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