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Old 04-10-06, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by And
Well, thats not quite true. Rather than using the scrubber to thirds, Stuart is using Diluent to thirds. I'm not sure I would be happy with that, but if you have sufficient OC bailout, then it is a similar logic to WKPP and a single RB80 I guess, although I think they do use thirds on the scrubber, judging by the bottom times, and have alternatives for deco, as Stuart suggested.

Andy
On a write up of the 20-odd hour dive that JJ did recently, I seem to recall that they were planning to exhaust their scrubbers, then switch to OC during the latter stages of deco? Obviously the caveat to this would be the infrastructure that they are using with habitats to give multiple options for completing the deco obligation. Also for such a dive, it's possible that thirds may have been followed if the deco portion (from the habitat and upwards) was excluded from the equation, and if the RB was used from this point onwards I expect that it would be because it is more comfortable to breathe the warm moist gas for a long long time.
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