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It's not ignoring it at all. Your dive computer tells you exactly how long you can stay at your current depth with no problems ("no decompression time"). You c
by socialist_coder 9y ago
It's not ignoring it at all. Your dive computer tells you exactly how long you can stay at your current depth with no problems ("no decompression time").
You can see tables of the no decompression time: http://elearning.padi.com/company0/tools/RDP_Table%20Met.pdf http://elearning.padi.com/company0/tools/RDP_Table%20Met.pdf
The calculations are quite confusing do to manually, but your computer does them great, and in realtime, and for your exact depth & time. So, like I said, as long as you follow your computer, the risk for nitrogen narcosis or any other problems is very very small.
- kobeya 9y agoYou are confusing nitrogen narcosis with the bends.
- socialist_coder 9y agoYou're right, I apologize. But I still argue the point: the depths that you will suffer seriously from nitrogen narcosis are beyond how deep you could even go on 1 tank + no decompression time. Once you get to 160 ft you only have a few minutes at that depth, so realistically you couldn't even go deep enough where nitrogen narcosis would be a big problem. So I still stand by my statement: if you have only 1 tank, and follow your dive computer's guidance, your risk of anything bad happening to you on a dive is slim to none.
- kobeya 9y ago"And follow your computer's guidance" is the key part. Hard to be sure you'll do that when N2 drunk ;)