PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - BREAKING NEWS: airliner missing within Egyptian FIR
Old 4th Nov 2015, 12:56
  #843 (permalink)  
steve611
 
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Middlesbrough
Posts: 8
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
A couple of minor corrections to the comments on diving with oxygen. Pure oxygen is neurotoxic above 2 atmospheres pressure, approx 10m depth with pure oxygen. The only folk who use pure oxygen are:
a) military divers, shallower than 10m and using rebreathing systems (no bubbles on the surface; a balance of risks) and
b) the rare really deep divers who use a complex gas mixture- at extreme depth this oxygen pressure equates to low single figure percentages of oxygen by volume, so the gas mixtures are carefully crafted using single gas cylinders.
steve611 is offline