Does your planet have cellular respiration converting oxygen to water constantly?
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Does your planet have cellular respiration converting oxygen to water constantly?
6 hrs. Just in case
In real - no need, because for this depth and time you will not obligate too much for slow tissues, and time to airport, than registration, etc - will over 3 hrs...
Above is just my NON specialist opinion, just personal estimation.
But they do exist, because you were exposed to a drop in ambient pressure.
Just a small FYI if you're going to shorten the name & Anglicise it, better make it "Alex"I am with Anekca
I can't find the cite anymore, somewhere on PubMed there's an old study that concluded that oxygen doesn't bubble nearly as much as nitrogen. I could never find much about how or why.
markmud:@doctormike: What if a person breathed 100% O2 at the surface, same microbubble issue?
Or, 100% at 20 feet?
So a drop in PP won't cause the same issue?
Thanks,
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My understanding is that DCS risk associated with bubbling requires a drop in ambient pressure, not a drop in PPN2 with no change in ambient pressure. I do not think that switching from, say, air to 100% O2 at 20 feet is a risk factor for DCS, despite the rapid and large drop in inspired PPN2 and the resultant increased offgassing gradient.
Yep. And if the N2 pressure in your tissues is the same as it is on the surface, how likely is it that you'll bubble if you suddenly find yourself at the surface? There just isn't any driving force pushing the N2 out of solution. And if your N2 pressure after the dive is the same as if you'd canceled the dive and had a beer on the boat instead, how likely is it that you'll bubble during a flight?If you breathe 100% O2 for long enough, eventually all of your tissue compartments will be free of inert gas. Once that happens, any reduction in ambient pressure (scuba ascent, air travel, explosive decompression due to loss of cabin pressure or spacewalk) will not put you at risk for bubble formation, since there is no inert gas to bubble.