Some History On Nitrox

[Bob]

unwed,
Technical discussions usually bore me,:loopy: but I am a history buff. I enjoyed your posts and would like to know more, keep on posting and thanks for the additional references. :tree:Bob

 

[WetDane]

Hey UWsince79 -
This is much appreciated, I find the timeline interesting.

As far as the rules and regulations goes - I guess it would not hurt to make a footnote of who wrote it (it might even be very interesting to see if GUE paraphrased their material from somewhere else...).

Cheers,
Big T

 

[uwsince79]

Thank you for your comments. I have seen quite a bit on the board of written works but they are not footnoted. So from here on out I will foot note my posts do hope everyone else follows suit. As for where they received there information, I can point out directly where they copied there text from, and of course they did not footnote it, but I really do not care it is others that do. (And if you read my origional post and pulled out the book you would notice the differences, but so be it.....):doctor:

 

[joewr]

Contributions to the Board are not paid for, to my knowledge...and the knowledge of my bank account. Further, this Board is not a scholarly journal and, thus, footnotes and attribution are not required...even of UWSince79!

However, what attribution does is give folks a chance to go to the source and do in depth reading and that is appreciated by a lot of people. So it would be a service to include the info.

At any rate, UW, do not feel compelled to footnote everything, but I guess you have to be prepared to "suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous ..." if what you write looks very similar to something that has been previously published...

And, I still enjoyed reading your post!

Joewr

 

[CheeseWhiz]

What !! I'm not getting paid for all the time I spend on ScubaBoard ??!!??

Well I'll be *#%&!#@.

CW

 

[Red Sea Shadow]

Nice, old thread!

More info about the Nitrox "battle" of the 90s is in the second issue of Tech Diving Mag. I thought you guys might be *still* interested.

 

[lowviz]

unwed,
Technical discussions usually bore me,:loopy: but I am a history buff. I enjoyed your posts and would like to know more, keep on posting and thanks for the additional references. :tree:Bob

Found this http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/technical-diving-specialties/368617-mixes-40-o2.html#post5709058 a while ago. Fascinating subject.

 

[Karlien de Boer]

Copied or not, nice summary - Thanks.
I know that NAUI sanctioned Nitrox training for recreational divers in 1992 (I believe this was the first Traning Organisation to sanction Nitrox diving).

 

[DiverDownD3]

I'm currently reading Deep Into Deco. He does discuss how when Nitrox was first introduced to recreational diving it caused a huge uproar from most of the major certification industries (PADI was the last in the US to do so). A lot of people wanted Rutkowski kicked out of professional diving.

 

[AJ]

A lot of people still think Nitrox is very dangerous. Go figure.