NOAA guidelines for limiting oxygen toxicity in diving date back to the 1970s and 1980s – a time when rebreather technology, digital sensors and today's diving profiles were still a long way off. Nevertheless, these early, deliberately conservative values formed the basis of all safety guidelines for decades. With the current NOAA revision, these limits are now being fundamentally revised for the first time. The new recommendations on CNS oxygen toxicity take into account cur

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