"Nitrox poisoning"-tv dialogue

[wedivebc]

Man you guys are a tough audience. Did anyone here ever watch Sea Hunt? It was specifically about diving, employing numerous scuba divers doing actual dives, yet it was fraught with technical abominations. I still watched it every week.

 

[DaleC]

OK Bob, if you're gonna go all "Mr Wizard" on us, but incorrectly, I'm gonna call you on it.



You should not think of oxygen as the power to run your body, any more than oxygen is the power to run your car.

Glucose is the "power" that runs your body, it is metabolized in your body's cells to produce heat and adenosine triphosyphate, (ATP) a molecule that stores and releases energy as required by the cell. This metabolism requires oxygen, just like the combustion in your car's engine requires oxygen. The O2 itself isn't what is burned - the gasoline is - but the fire cannot burn without 02 to support the reaction.

[/science]

:cool2:

Pop Quiz: How many molecules of ATP are produced during the Krebs cycle and what is the conversion of ATP to ADP called?

 

[DiveNav]

Pop Quiz: How many molecules of ATP are produced during the Krebs cycle and what is the conversion of ATP to ADP called?

easy:

1) 23,735,982.64
2)TtoD

 

[Web Monkey]

On that same note...I went to Sports Chalet last night to get an air fill. Long story short, there was a Sports Chalet instructor there who refused to fill my cylinders because they had a "nitrox" sticker on them (they weren't even "enriched air nitrox" stickers). He proceeded to tell me that adding air to the nitrox would poison me...kept saying it was poisonous. NCIS, alright, I can kind of forgive...but a scuba instructor?!! And by definition, isn't air nitrox?

SC probably doesn't have O2 compatible air and the store has a policy against filling tanks that are labeled for Nitrox, since they don't want the liability of contaminating your tank and blowing up the next fill guy when he dumps in the O2.

The reason the guy gave you was bogus but correct. In any case the results are the same: They didn't fill your tank, and although their explanation sucks, they know their air better than you do, and if they don't want to fill the tank, you probably don't want them filling it.

Terry

 

[adurso]

This all goes to show that my mother was correct: " TV will rot your brain...."

 

[Doc]

 

[DandyDon]

Once you start taking television shows serious, instead of a simple from of entertainment, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

NCIS is a good show but CSI Miami, now that's great comedy!

Years ago on the farms with radio station reception limited, I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh for laughs, but it was dangerous the way some of his statements made me run off the road. :shocked2:

 

[sterlingMarineService]

I saw that too and was like what the? Haha it was mind boggling

 

[holeup]

I want 2 of them there adjuster thingys

 

[holeup]

hey, If i dive to 120' and I forget to adjust that thingy adjuster thing on my ascent at say 50' and remember at 30' can i just calculate the average 120+50+30 /3 and go back to 66.6 feet and restart my ascent and make the adjustments? or will I just be washed up on shore like the unseasoned diver in the show