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Old 06-23-2018, 08:52 AM   #21
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Campaigns (p. 352) lists hyperventilating on pure oxygen as a x2.5 modifier.
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:55 AM   #22
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There seems to be at least one case of a human population with some level of the Breath-Holding advantage: The Bajau sea nomads (https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S...674(18)30386-6 ; https://phys.org/news/2018-04-genetic-humans.html).
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Old 06-23-2018, 08:57 AM   #23
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Campaigns (p. 352) lists hyperventilating on pure oxygen as a x2.5 modifier.
Does it? Okay, well, then citing how long people can dive after doing that is relevant to assessing the validity of the existing rules as applied to that specific case.
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Old 06-23-2018, 09:39 AM   #24
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Does it? Okay, well, then citing how long people can dive after doing that is relevant to assessing the validity of the existing rules as applied to that specific case.
Yes it does. I used it in my custom system.
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Old 06-23-2018, 10:16 AM   #25
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How does the different levels of Breath-Holding work exactly?

Example:
Breath-Holding 2, is it x3 the regular time (+100% +100%) or x4 the regular time (x2 x2)?
Multiplier = 2 ^ [Breath Holding Level]
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Old 06-23-2018, 11:41 AM   #26
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Multiplier = 2 ^ [Breath Holding Level]
Great, thatīs what I thought :)
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