"you should be able to go down farther for longer periods of time with scuba equipment (esp. if you use something like nitrox)." This is wrong - nitrox doesn't

"you should be able to go down farther for longer periods of time with scuba equipment (esp. if you use something like nitrox)." This is wrong - nitrox doesn't let you go down farther for longer periods [1]; in fact, oxygen toxicity happens at a shallower depth on nitrox than on regular air. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrox#Oxygen_toxicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrox#Oxygen_toxicity