Dive Oxygen Toxicity Explorer

See how CNS and pulmonary oxygen toxicity build up during a dive and recover afterward.

Educational tool only — not for real dive planning. Assumes a square dive profile (instant descent/ascent, constant depth).
Indexes to show

All three indexes are shown as a % of a recommended limit so they can be compared on one scale: CNS% is already a % of the NOAA single-exposure limit; OTU is shown as a % of a commonly-cited 300 OTU/day reference; ESOT is shown as a % of the DMAC 35 Rev 1 660 single-exposure limit. The vertical dashed line marks surfacing. CNS% decays after surfacing (~90 min half-time); OTU is shown flat since it has no recovery function, only a daily limit; ESOT decays after surfacing using its own recovery model, which recovers more slowly the longer the dive was.

OTU and ESOT are two competing measures of pulmonary toxicity — DMAC 35 Rev 1 adopted ESOT in place of the older UPTD/OTU. Note that DMAC does not score air-only dives at all, but here it is computed for any PO2.