ScubaGadget - The Deep Background on Scuba

Your dive boat may not have nitrox (EAN) but the airplane you flew in on, likely does (or soon will). The terrible explosion of TWA Flight 800 off of Long Island on July 17, 1996 caused investigators to realized that they needed a way to make the air/fuel mixture in fuel tanks inert to prevent similar [...]

Vance Harlow’s book “Oxygen Hacker’s Companion” (Airspeed Press) speaks of nitrox and gas mixing as a modern day dark art. In the introduction he claims that “dive shops and gas suppliers are both well aware of this mystique, often as not seem to enjoy their role as initiates of a discipline which is shrouded in [...]