These questions are impossible to answer.
It all depends on the dive profile preformed. As a recreational diver it is always "possible" to make it to the surface with an ESA. If you will get bent, that is a different matter.
Technical divers do not have this "luxury". On a deep long dive running out of gas is just not an option and will most likely result in death.
The answer is...DO NOT RUN OUT OF GAS and ALWAYS DO NECESSARY DECO STOPS.
PS "make it to the surface without getting severely bent (as in requiring prompt medical treatment?) " Any symptoms of bends requires immediate medial attention.
It all depends on the dive profile preformed. As a recreational diver it is always "possible" to make it to the surface with an ESA. If you will get bent, that is a different matter.
Technical divers do not have this "luxury". On a deep long dive running out of gas is just not an option and will most likely result in death.
The answer is...DO NOT RUN OUT OF GAS and ALWAYS DO NECESSARY DECO STOPS.
PS "make it to the surface without getting severely bent (as in requiring prompt medical treatment?) " Any symptoms of bends requires immediate medial attention.