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Re: Call Me Old Fashioned
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Bjorn Vang Jensen <[log in to unmask]>
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SouthEast US Scuba Diving Travel list <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:44:37 +0800
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Steven wrote:

> > > - And why is 50% oxygen more conservative ?
> In terms of oxygen exposure, wouldn't using the highest 02 setting be the
> most
> conservative ?

I guess so, but IMO this is not the major danger of the two possibles.
Pretending that you are diving on 50% oxygen would make the algorithm assume
that you are much "safer" than you really are in terms of nitrogen loading.

Bjorn

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