Rickg
Contributor
Here are several links that discuss IWR using both air and oxygen. There is a ton of data to sift through here.
I find IWR to be an interesting subject and thought you might find some of these links worth perusing. The first URL in particular has links to wealth of knowledge on this subject.
http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/A...inwater/IWR.htm
http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/A...IWRcasestud.htm
http://www.fullcave.com/REMOTEDIVING.htm
http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecS...ompression.html
And here is what I found to be the best of the bunch. A true story written by someone who has experienced IWR. He wasn't able to complete the full oxygen IWR treatment course but you walk away with the idea that he feels even his partial IWR probably prevented him from having a worse case of DCS.
http://staff.washington.edu/parker/.../bendstory2.htm
I've never had a DCS hit and hope I never do but some of this might come in handy if I ever should have a hit while in a remote location. For example, we will be going on a liveaboard out of Manado, Indonesia next month for a 6-day/5-night trip up to the Sangihe Islands which are pretty remote (probably in excess of 12 hours from a recompression chamber for a vast majority of the trip).
Hope this gives you something to think about. Best of all dive conservatively and you'll probably never need to consider this.
Rickg
I find IWR to be an interesting subject and thought you might find some of these links worth perusing. The first URL in particular has links to wealth of knowledge on this subject.
http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/A...inwater/IWR.htm
http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/A...IWRcasestud.htm
http://www.fullcave.com/REMOTEDIVING.htm
http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecS...ompression.html
And here is what I found to be the best of the bunch. A true story written by someone who has experienced IWR. He wasn't able to complete the full oxygen IWR treatment course but you walk away with the idea that he feels even his partial IWR probably prevented him from having a worse case of DCS.
http://staff.washington.edu/parker/.../bendstory2.htm
I've never had a DCS hit and hope I never do but some of this might come in handy if I ever should have a hit while in a remote location. For example, we will be going on a liveaboard out of Manado, Indonesia next month for a 6-day/5-night trip up to the Sangihe Islands which are pretty remote (probably in excess of 12 hours from a recompression chamber for a vast majority of the trip).
Hope this gives you something to think about. Best of all dive conservatively and you'll probably never need to consider this.
Rickg