WheelerDealer
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I was in a D/FW area dive shop last weekend where the topic of the day between two local tech divers was a situation that had occured on one of the guys recent trip to Somewhere on or near Bikini Atoll. As I understand it there were four divers in the water who all began the dive together, and three of them were on trimix and the fourth was a local DM who was breathing air. The dive was a 180ft dive and at about 15 minutes into the dive the DM who was on air had a first stage failure and was unable to deal with it,(gee I wonder why) so one of the mix divers came over and donated their long hose to him and everyone ultimately surfaced okay after deco. Not being a deco diver myself (yet) I was wondering if the air divers deco plan would have to change because he switched to mix during the dive?? I did not get to here what all of the guys deco schedules were but I did hear them say that the mix guys were carrying EAN32 and 100% O2 for deco and that the air breathing DM was only carrying 100% O2. So, what would be the proper thing to do to get this guy out of the water as safely as possible. Other than telling him to get mix training and quit diving deep air that is. Also, they were talking about how difficult it was to get mix while they were there. Is this a common problem when deep diving around the world?