Whatever happened to NITROX...

[FreediveWI]

$32!!! I bet I can guess who that shop was.

I actually quit working at a shop a few years ago because I was told I couldn't even mention the word "nitrox" on 'their' sales floor. The owner got ticked when I corrected him in front of a customer- he was telling them that Nitrox was a gas only used for "deep diving". :-X

I left and went to more technically freindly stores. Now, all these years later, they have even added nitrox to their store.

Trimix is now getting the same rap the nitrox did a decade ago, however, 10 years from now I bet many stores will be pumping it. Deep Blue is the only stroe I know of, or at least would trust, to fill my tanks with trimix, but I am sure the rest of the state will catch up- eventually.

If you look back on things, there was a time that people looked down on SPG's and BC's. Now you can't take a class without having them. The same may happen with nitrox.

Jon