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| Originally Posted by Richie It always used to be fine so why not now??? 
Is it that we have become wusses or just sensible I wonder  |
Cigarette companies used to say fags were good for the lungs as well.
It's progress, nothing to do with being a wuss or not.
I don't know if anyone remembers Mike Menduno and AquaCORPS but Mike famously opened the first ever technical diving conference in the early 90's by saying technical diving was invented so we didn't have to dive deep on air. That was about 14-15yrs ago.
Rebreathers today are at a better cost/safety/availability level as trimix was in the early 90's. Maybe it's time we started saying RB's were invented so we didn't have to dive deep on air.
I've spent the last couple of years diving trimix on every dive regardless of depth, I ended up on a wreck at 50m the other week with a topped off dil, so had a narc of probably around 35m. I found it very uncomfortable and did not feel happy being there. I couldn't go back to diving deep on air.
Cheers,
Stuart