Hello,
I am new to using nitrox and have a question regarding Nitrox and Air. My wife and I are going to be doing a 8-12 dives over a four day period (NC wreck diving so excited). From what we have learned nitrox has its plus and minus factors and limitations. While budgeting our trip we found that if we dive nitrox on our first dive and air on on second (in one day) we can save enough to actually do a few more dives. What we are wondering is are we getting the benefits of using the nitrox doing this? (were looking at decreasing our surface interval and hopefully getting a bit more bottom time, as well as help lessen the fatigue of diving repetitively)
Our reasoning was this "first dive is typically the deeper dive and we want to lessen our surface interval, the time between our second dive of the day and the next day will be around 18 hours so that should give us plenty of time between dives (so we it seems to us we planned out some mock times to see what our residual should be).
Hope this makes sense...its not that big of a deal but hey if we can get to spend some more time diving thats great...but we also want to be safe and have fun.
Thanks
I am new to using nitrox and have a question regarding Nitrox and Air. My wife and I are going to be doing a 8-12 dives over a four day period (NC wreck diving so excited). From what we have learned nitrox has its plus and minus factors and limitations. While budgeting our trip we found that if we dive nitrox on our first dive and air on on second (in one day) we can save enough to actually do a few more dives. What we are wondering is are we getting the benefits of using the nitrox doing this? (were looking at decreasing our surface interval and hopefully getting a bit more bottom time, as well as help lessen the fatigue of diving repetitively)
Our reasoning was this "first dive is typically the deeper dive and we want to lessen our surface interval, the time between our second dive of the day and the next day will be around 18 hours so that should give us plenty of time between dives (so we it seems to us we planned out some mock times to see what our residual should be).
Hope this makes sense...its not that big of a deal but hey if we can get to spend some more time diving thats great...but we also want to be safe and have fun.
Thanks