Triox for the masses

Brian Gilpin · Jul 26, 2005

Why not? Why are agencies making it so hard to get triox/trimix cards? Is there something inherently dangerous about it? It seems simple enough as long as you dont mess with the Oxygen levels beyond those allowed by a nitrox card.

I will be taking rec triox in the future as soon as I clean up a couple of skills I personally was not satisfied with in DIR-F. In the meantime I want my gas! Why are they keeping it from me?

Does anybody have a good answer?

jonnythan · Jul 26, 2005

Not an awful lot of demand I imagine...

Bill51 · Jul 26, 2005

My assumption would be that demand is relatively low since not that many divers are looking to go that deep, plan their dive that extensively up front, or stay down that long. Additionally theres the fact that while diving trimix may not inherently be more dangerous, the dives that you can get into with it can be.

JeffG · Jul 26, 2005

Brian Gilpin:
In the meantime I want my gas! Why are they keeping it from me?

Does anybody have a good answer?

Because people are cheap

Brian Gilpin · Jul 26, 2005

Bill51:
My assumption would be that demand is relatively low . .

That does not seem to stop them when they want to create weird specilaty courses.Any International Diver patches out there?

Bill51:
Additionally theres the fact that while diving trimix may not inherently be more dangerous, the dives that you can get into with it can be.

Why do you say that? Is it some sort of loco gas that makes you go extra deep? My limited understanding is that it would be very useful in the range that students dive when getting their Advanced card. It seems that if you kept the beginning nitrox class limitations in place that depth would be controlled automatically.

jonnythan · Jul 26, 2005

People comaplin about $15 nitrox fills.. you think any significant numbers of rec divers will pay $30+ for triox?

Brian Gilpin · Jul 26, 2005

JeffG:
Because people are cheap

How can you say that in a forum where people routinely pay $1000 or more for a glorified flashlight?

jonnythan · Jul 26, 2005

Brian Gilpin:
How can you say that in a forum where people routinely pay $1000 or more for a glorified flashlight?

Because a forum isn't real life. In reality, those $1000 flashlights represent a TINY TINY minority of the dive industry.

cornfed · Jul 26, 2005

Brian Gilpin:
How can you say that in a forum where people routinely pay $1000 or more for a glorified flashlight?

Are you talking about techincal or recreational divers? I assume it was the later in which case very few of them own HIDs.

Doc Intrepid · Jul 26, 2005

I will be taking rec triox in the future...

Hey Brian,

I just filled a set of E8-130s with Trimix 18/42 to 3500 psi (260 cu ft).

The price of my gas was $109.00 for that fill.

Deco gasses not included...

Uh...if I had to guess at why Recreational triox use might not be real widespread, that might be one reason.

Still in a hurry to use triox for Recreational dives?

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