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Professor Simon Mitchell provides his view on the helium penalty
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On this helium penalty question,
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when you boil it all down,
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it's simple. If you do less
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decompression,
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there's more risk.
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You may have seen the recent video
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circulating online that had some divers
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doing some very deep dives with no
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helium programmed into their computer.
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I talked about it on my social media
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channels, and it got a whole load of
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comments. And that kind of led into a
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discussion about the helium penalty. So,
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I thought that I would go straight to
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one of the world experts in
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decompression physiology and medicine.
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And I just come back to the fundamental
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message, which is
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if you do less decompression, it's more
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risk.
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I'm sure most people will know Professor
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Simon Mitchell. He's a diving physician.
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He's a professor at the University of
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Auckland. He's editor of the Diving and
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Hyperbaric Medicine Journal.
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Perhaps most importantly, he's also a
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technical diver. I'm very invested in
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getting the right answers for us. So,
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actually has a whole load of skin in
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this game himself. So, in the
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conversation you're about to see, he
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explains what the helium penalty is,
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where it comes from, and then talks
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about some of the more recent research
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that is in place, and provides some real
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practical advice on what that means to
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to us and him as a diver. It's an
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absolutely fascinating interview.
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