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    Quote Originally Posted by amtrosie View Post
    SoCalDiveGirl,


    Uerika!!! you have found the magic potion for us die hards(!)
    I don't know about you but i prefer to be a live hard ......





    JDS

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    Quote Originally Posted by JS1scuba View Post
    I don't know about you but i prefer to be a live hard ......
    live is good... otherwise it would be rigor mortis..

    Ok. back to Nitrox...
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    I dive Nitrox because it is safer diving.....and if you are doing three dives a day or more on a Suunto.....you need it.....but here is an write up in Undercurrent that perhaps is an excellent reason to Nitrox


    "Have a Little Nitrox, M’Dear
    Last October, we quoted an Undercurrent reader
    who’d discovered an unusual benefit of Nitrox. After
    she and her husband made two dives with a 32% blend,
    “something amazing happened,” said Karen Decker
    (Oxnard, CA). “We went back to the room and had sex.
    Yep, that’s right, sex. Something that had never happened
    before the nap before that day.” Decker reported
    that she and her husband “actually had the energy to
    engage in this extracurricular activity each day after diving.
    We’ve been enjoying Nitrox ever since!”
    That article brought several comments, including
    this from a subscriber who requested anonymity. “I love
    diving; however, I found the drastic diminution of my
    sexual responsiveness after a day of diving on air to be
    an intolerable side effect. I proposed to my husband
    that I dive only every other day and see if that helped.
    He was not similarly affected; regular air or Nitrox, he
    was always in full, happy vacation condition. He is a
    physician and said that he thought Nitrox might fix the
    problem. The change was immediate.
    “We have experimented with one tank of Nitrox and
    one of air when Nitrox is in short supply. This also seems
    fine. For many of us, the whole vacation is not about diving
    only. No one said a word about this in the Nitrox classroom,
    but discreet inquiries on my part have revealed that
    this is not a new discovery.”
    Al Ankus, an Undercurrent subscriber and pharmacist
    in Chicago, IL, offers an explanation. He told us that
    Nitric oxide (a by-product of Nitrox inhalation) serves
    as a neurotransmitter between nerve cells. Production of
    nitric oxide “also plays a role in development and maintenance
    of erection by stimulating the smooth muscle cells
    surrounding the blood vessels supplying the corpus cavernosum
    (region of erectile tissue that contains most of the
    blood in the penis during erection). Through relaxation
    of these muscles, more blood can flow in.” By the way, adds
    our friendly pharmacist, “Nitric oxide is the main ingredient
    of sildenafel — commonly known as . . . Viagra.”
    Ern Campbell, MD, who runs Scubadoc blog told us
    that while there are good anecdotal reports, there still
    isn’t any hard evidence. He speculates, with tongue in
    cheek, that perhaps vigorous sex and Cialis before diving
    might decrease the risk of decompression illness, citing
    research that shows while fitness above a basic level made
    little difference, a bout of intense exercise (amorous or
    otherwise, he says) 20 hours before a simulated dive in a
    pressure chamber dramatically reduced nitrogen bubble
    formation. The researchers believe that the exercise
    eliminates microbubbles that seed the formation of larger
    bubbles in the blood.
    Other studies suggest that these microbubbles are
    attached to the walls of blood vessels. Exercise is known to
    stimulate the release of nitric oxide (NO), which not only
    dilates blood vessels but changes their surface properties,
    making them more slippery.
    Obviously, there’s a need for more research in this
    subject. As soon as we find a research team willing to take
    it on, we’ll put out a call for volunteers"

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    Quote Originally Posted by amtrosie View Post
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    Why would you consider the dive on air, if you would do the Deco on EAN? You are already investing in the EAN gas, so there is no additional expense. I do alot of tri-mix, with deco on 50% and 100%, and I can not even recall the last time I used air. I FIRMLY believe in the use of a gas that allows me an additional measure of saftey. EAN is not the " be all and end all" of magic gas, but it does afford me better options when diving.
    Helium isnt cheap down here so for 40-50m dives a lot of people just use air on the bottom and then flush out a bit with 40 to 80% mixes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TravelnSJ View Post
    I dive Nitrox because it is safer diving.....and if you are doing three dives a day or more on a Suunto.....you need it.....but here is an write up in Undercurrent that perhaps is an excellent reason to Nitrox


    "Have a Little Nitrox, M’Dear
    Last October, we quoted an Undercurrent reader
    who’d discovered an unusual benefit of Nitrox. After
    SNIP
    . Exercise is known to
    stimulate the release of nitric oxide (NO), which not only
    dilates blood vessels but changes their surface properties,
    making them more slippery.
    Obviously, there’s a need for more research in this
    subject. As soon as we find a research team willing to take
    it on, we’ll put out a call for volunteers"

    At the the risk of totally embarrassing myself i can agree with this. After doing decos on nitrox and especially after i came out of a chamber after being on pure O2 lets just say things become hard to hide. And wasnt just a little bit it was full on.

    Matt

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    Nitrox is good. But here it costs alot. $20 for a tank upto EAN40 (more at some places) plus O2 cleaning.
    Air is cheap. $3 a tank

    So gas for a 3 dive day $60 or $9? Not really a hard decision to make for me.
    Now EAN as a deco gas is a diffrent story. $20 for a tank that could last for 3 dives (or more).

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    I was a typical nitrox skeptic until last summer. Then I took the nitrox course on the Turks & Caicos Aggressor. Typical liveaboard dives are in the 60 to 100 foot range. This was perfect for getting the "more bottom time" benefit of nitox. I also noticied less fatigue as well.

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    I have been using for 8 years plus and I love Geezer gas! At recreational limits MOD O2 up to 1.6 is less narcotic that Nitrogen! Deeper maybe, but thats why you switch to Tri-Mix. For five dives a day and Cave diving you can't beat it! I will tell you this Cal-Osha has their head up their ass when it comes to Public Safety diving and Nitrox! In our county you can't get below 100ft yet if you use 32 or 36 or any mix greater than 21% you have to have a Deco Chamber on site! It is like living in a bureaucratic stone age. Divers would be safer and have bigger margins and we have seen a state ranger bent on Air in a search that wouldn't have been a problem on Nitrox! My 4 cents, inflation!
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