Bombay High
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Tests were conducted on Saturation divers living in enclosed hyperbaric environments for a long period of time.
Since CO is a gas that humans excrete with every exhalation, albeit in very small quantities, it was studied to see how much this increases in the course of a deep Saturation dive typically lasting about 30 days including decompression.
It was found that by day 8 or 9 CO levels had reached a level where it impeded the divers performance.
If I remember right, this led to Sofnacat being used in Sat complexes to remove CO build up.
Since CO is a gas that humans excrete with every exhalation, albeit in very small quantities, it was studied to see how much this increases in the course of a deep Saturation dive typically lasting about 30 days including decompression.
It was found that by day 8 or 9 CO levels had reached a level where it impeded the divers performance.
If I remember right, this led to Sofnacat being used in Sat complexes to remove CO build up.