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Original poster here! Man, I knew I'd get some awesome responses to my question! Thank you! You guys are fantastic and there is a lot of knowledge here! After reading the pros and cons of it all, it seems like the "cons" are few and it won't hurt to get the certification. I know I mentioned the money thing in my post. Cost isn't prohibitive for us, we just want to realize value. Nitrox is included at no extra charge in our air package booked with VIP Diving in Bonaire. My dive buddy is my wife, pretty much 100% of the time, so we'll get it done together before our trip. I'm lucky in that I married a woman who loves diving, hockey and baseball....and she can cook! Haha! We could be doing a liveaboard at some point in the future too, so it seems there may be an advantage to diving Nitrox there as well. Our LDS is headed to Raja Ampat late next year, I think? Anyway, thanks again for all the advice/input/opinions, etc. It really helped!
Sheesh.. here we go.There are a few posts on this thread that state that Nitrox makes you feel better and less fatigue, and that studies that have been done to prove this questionable claim have failed because they are flawed.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Nitrox makes a diver feel any better post-dive, nor that fatigue that divers get during diving is due to "clinically undetectable bubble formation within the tissues that is effectively remedied by diving Nitrox". In fact several studies HAVE been done addressing this question and have proven that Nitrox has no advantage whatsoever in regard to post dive fatigue as compared to breathing air.
Any "feel good effect" of Nitrox is due to the well known placebo effect that is so powerful it must be controlled for in every valid clinical study that depends on subjective and objective results and responses of human subjects.
Why even publish the article if they acknowledge they failed to generate fatigue at all unless there was an agenda at play.An interesting finding is that the measures of fatigue did not increase following the simulated dives, despite such reports being common following recreational underwater diving.