What Nitrox Calculations do you use?

[SDAnderson]

You need to learn the formulas so that you can learn the processes. Once that's done, you'll find out that life is too short to be futzing over the decision to dive 30% or 31% and you'll go to standards mixes...then use tables or any of the commercially available software programs to plan your dives with.

But never mind all this, what the heck is an "Ocean X calculator (wheel)?"

 

[JRScuba]

I just look at this:

Now that is really making things easy. It
is one of those: Now why didn't I think of that.

Great Idea.



Joe

 

[Blackwood]

All you really have to remember is Dalton's law and Boyle's law and some algebra. All the basic formulas can be derived from that.

Winner.

 

[Blackwood]

Proven by DAN (2 years ago) to be such a small difference its statistically insignificant and below the noise floor.

It may be insigificant if you are studying DCS instigated by a too fast ascent.

 

[Blackwood]

It may be insigificant if you are studying DCS instigated by a too fast ascent.

Or dehydration, etc..

However, there should be no question as to whether breathing a hyperoxic mix and diving normoxic tables will help prevent DCS caused by too-high nitrogen loadings. If it doesn't, the whole concept of staying within do-not-exceed limits is bunk.

 

[DiveGolfSki]

You need to learn the formulas so that you can learn the processes. Once that's done, you'll find out that life is too short to be futzing over the decision to dive 30% or 31% and you'll go to standards mixes...then use tables or any of the commercially available software programs to plan your dives with.

But never mind all this, what the heck is an "Ocean X calculator (wheel)?"

I believe that's NAUI's easy to use Nitrox calculator. As for software programs, try:

www.gap-software.com. If you've got a Pocket PC PDA, you can download all the necessary tables (RGBM and Buhlmann)