[PSUBS-MAILIST] life support test

Sun Mar 18 19:22:26 EDT 2018

Steve,
you are advocating a nitrogen narcosis experience as a training for escape.
Nitrogen narcosis is known as the Martini effect & is equivalent to drinking
1 martini on an empty stomach for every 10 metres you descend.
I think a standard Martini is 3 oz, (some of the alcoholics in the group might
confirm  this). It would be much easier to see how many Martini's you could
drink & still get out of your sub, than try & do a real simulation with nitrogen.
For those with K250s that's about 5 Martini's & K350's 8 at maximum depth.
I am shooting for 500ft so that's 12. (36oz)
How deep is Scott going?
Cheers Alan

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> On 19/03/2018, at 11:02 AM, Stephen Fordyce via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian and all,
> I'm just going through commissioning a new/modified rebreather which is a bit relevant to this. I believe (sort of at odds with conventional training manuals) that it's valuable to experience the physiological signs and symptoms of the various gases at incorrect levels. Your other systems should of course protect you and be highly conservative, but you never know.
> 
> To that end, after a recent long dive I continued to breather the scrubber at home on the couch (for several hours) until the high CO2 effects were noticeable. I've also had a controlled low oxygen experience that I consider valuable. Both worth doing, maybe even regularly - I'd like to do high oxygen one but that's been a bit tricky so far.
> 
> If anyone has plans to be exiting a partially flooded sub at depths below 30m/100ft then a nitrogen narcosis experience would be extremely valuable. Especially with quick compression, your mental faculties deteriorate rapidly. Even at that depth, and it gets worse as you go deeper. I don't dive below 50m on air because I barely know what I'm doing.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve Fordyce
> 
>> On 18 Mar 2018 2:04 pm, "Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>> See
>> DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR
>> 
>> CARBON DIOXIDE SCRUBBERS
>> 
>> I
>> 
>> MAY 1983
>> 
>> REVISED JULY 1985
>> 
>> Prepared by
>> 
>> M. L. NUCKOLS, A. PURER, G. A. DEASON
>> 
>> for the philological affects of high CO2 level but if you abort the test if you ever exceed 5000 ppm, you should be safe.  In addition to the CO2 issues, you should also familrrize yourself with both Hypoxia which describes levels lower than Normoxia, or percentages lower than 21% and  hyperoxic breathing gas when levels rise above 22% of oxygen. Hypoxia would come from running out of makeup O2 or leaving the O2 supply valve closed by accident and hyperoic state would most likely be caused by a high pressure leak of O2 into the cabin caused by a loose fitting.  I would recommend you abort the test if O2 concentration falls outside the acceptable range as defined by ABS.
>> 
>> When you go back and analyze the test, it is helpful to have data logged cabin atmosphere parameters including, CO2 and O2 concentrations, cabin pressure and temperature and relative humidity.
>> 
>> Cliff
>> 
>>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 5:37 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>               Thinking about testing my life support.  Will obviously have some people outside the sub watching me, and talking via radio.  But I was wondering if there would be a point at which I should abort the test when the CO2  gets to a certain point .   If it levels off and stays at a constant but is some what elevated would it be ok to monitor that situation ?   Like say it levels off at 2000 ppm and assuming my oxygen is at a constant 20.8 %    ?    
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