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You are confusing nitrogen narcosis with the bends.

• socialist_coder 9y ago
  You'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 ;)