The Man Who Made Your Diving Safer
from the September, 2016 issue of Undercurrent
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Not many divers these days are aware of what Dick
Rutkowski did for sport diving, but he's given you a
safety factor that just didn't exist three decades ago.
Back then, Florida Keys dive operators were talking
about sinking wrecks in 130 feet of water, and Dick
thought that to breathe air at that depth was a mistake.
Having just retired from a career in government diving,
which included research with Morgan Wells into using
oxygen-enriched air by research divers, he proposed
that these Florida divers breathed what we now know
as nitrox. He said that, in fact, all sport divers could
add safety to their diving by reducing the proportion of
nitrogen they inhaled and absorbed.... Subscribers: Read the full article here
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