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Originally Posted by Tango589
That sounds cool, but wouldn't you need some sort of emergency back-up in case you were down deep and the device failed?
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A pony leg tank strapped next to the ankle knife; Gives you 5 to ten minutes extra. Actually had to do a hundred foot ascent off Maui with no air (stupid
assigned partner)...by the book...so you don't
embolize in the alveoli!
Get
calm, look
up to straighten passages, and don't rise faster than the bubbles and
Don't stop breathing in and out(exhaling is critical) even if just to rebreathe the
residual amount in your own lungs. since most of my older buddies and instructors have eventually gotten
bends, I just keep it above 30 feet these days so the nitrogen time is not a factor. Still wear my SEIKO dive watch after 33 years too. And still have a SCUBA-PRO AIR-TWO double regulator for any 'buddy breathing'
panic situations. I'm a heavy breather, not a 'sipper' so I use the large Aluminum tank. Would screw up my
diminished courage though, to use
Heli-
ox to dive the Jersy coast U-boat wreck. Dove my first 100' footer on the
Hannah Hooper? off Bonaire, Dutch Antilles some decades ago; torpedoed by a U-boat. I do the CA Channel Island occasionally for night spiny lobster(red lamp with net bag) and fresh scallops-
pure sushi on the aft-deck while still in my neoprene suit...Yum
August has got it though, pure O past 1 atmosphere (33') causes convulsions whereas normal air at 100' only nitrogen narcosis...
