Re:The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
by mbrameld on Sunday May 13, 2018 @04:08PM
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> For those unfamiliar, pressure doubles every 10m (33ft).
Does it? Or does it increase by one atmosphere every 10m?
Re:The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
by jjcm on Sunday May 13, 2018 @09:12PM
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Increase by one atmosphere. If it doubled then at the bottom of the Marianas Trench it'd be 10^330 atmospheres, or approximately 10^318 times greater than the pressure at the center of the Sun.
As such, nitrox’s purpose isn’t to increase depth. It’s actually used to increase bottom time (at a loss of max depth) without needing decompression. You get this increased bottom time due to lower amounts of nitrogen.
I’ve logged hundreds of nitrox dives from 28% - 60% oxygen levels, but never bit the bullet and gotten into more advanced air mixtures like Trimix. Trimix and other specialty blends are hard to get air fills for at the places I most commonly dive, so I keep pushing it off.