pickens_46929
Contributor
Makes some sense I guess - no leaky valve kills you 3x faster basically. At some point though even if you lose consciousness under Scenario 2, you're PO2 will fall below life sustaining levels. It just takes longer as you said.
I was wondering what would happen in the opposite case where you're running on manual, and adding O2 out of habit more than monitoring things.
Could easily see that a diver gets into a set pattern of squirting a little O2 into the loop at a regular interval out of habit, but then the leaky valve also does the same thing and O2 level rises rather than maintains.
If you're flying your rig on manual, forgetting to pay attention to PO2 levels or something else goes wrong with your O2 sensors on auto, I could just as easily see the reverse happening.
I was wondering what would happen in the opposite case where you're running on manual, and adding O2 out of habit more than monitoring things.
Could easily see that a diver gets into a set pattern of squirting a little O2 into the loop at a regular interval out of habit, but then the leaky valve also does the same thing and O2 level rises rather than maintains.
If you're flying your rig on manual, forgetting to pay attention to PO2 levels or something else goes wrong with your O2 sensors on auto, I could just as easily see the reverse happening.