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Old 14th November 2002 | 11:39
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Golden Rivet
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Until it runs out ?

A lot longer than it takes you to descend to a breathable altitude.

At 20 000 ft you've got approx 25mins or less before hypoxia symptoms become apparent. ( loss of muscular control, judgement,reasoning, memory and time sense, emotional outbursts)

At 40 000 ft you've got approx 15-20 secs (10 secs under rapid decompression ), until loss of consciousness.

Also smokers will encounter symptoms 2000ft to 7000ft earlier than non-smokers

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