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don't Scuba dive in deep water. Stay above 80 ft. of depth.
Helium may be used as a substitute for nitrogen to dilute oxygen for deep water diving. It is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and chemically inert. However, it is more expensive than nitrogen and drains body heat from a diver.

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The effects of nitrogen narcosis are totally reversed as the gas pressure decreases. They are typically gone by the time the diver returns to a water depth of 60 ft.
There is no real "treatment" as such, but the symptoms usually alleviate rapidly by reducing your depth.

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The above is correct, except that ascending to a shallower depth is in fact the treatment and narcosis will always be reduced when a diver ascends.

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