User:GargantuanMegafield 1982

About me
Hello, and welcome to my page. I am an anonymous editor from the United States. Some of my interests include SCUBA diving, biking, running, and driving on road trips. I'm most interested in diving though. I got into it funnily enough through horror stories related to cave diving. I hope to gain a rebreather certification in the future, and explore the depths of the ocean as far as physically possible with current technology. Technical diving is a word commonly used in association with my goals within the sport. Technical diving is, according to DAN, diving that puts the diver at more risk than if you were to dive within recreational limits. To put it short, the diving you see in movies or on TV. Cave diving, wreck diving, closed circuit rebreathers, etcetera etcetera.

Vested interest in Wikipedia
As an editor with experience in the field, I hope to edit pages related to diving and the activities related to it. I hope to get more people interested in the sport, and to disprove thoughts that the sport is dangerous. Yes, it is inherently dangerous, but if practiced safely, it is a safe and fun sport. If you are interested in the sport, I recommend finding a dive shop near you and contacting them in person. They will answer any and all questions you have regarding the sport or training process.

Introduction
I knew about this article for a long time, and I've always noticed how barebones it is. As a SCUBA diver, I have an inherent interest in anything related to diving. I also have an inherent interest in technical diving, and this gas is a very technical breathing gas mix, as it can literally explode in high partial pressures of oxygen. I visited the hydreliox article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: It's dead link to the Hydra VIII mission, missing or unclear sources for facts stated within the article, and missing information that should be within the article.

Dead links
The article immediately contains a dead wiki-link to the Hydra VIII mission in the second sentence of the article. From what I could tell, none of the links in the references page are dead, but my school blocked half of the links so it's not like I could really check effectively. The wikipedia page for the Hydra-VIII mission should be created, or the wiki-link should be removed, as the dead link makes the page look unfinished and ugly.

Missing sources
The entire first paragraph contains only two citations, and it is difficult to tell if those two citations are responsible for everything in it. It would be better to put a citation after every single fact so you can easily tell what information is found from where. The second paragraph talks about the breathing gas' historical use. Here, there are citations aplenty, pretty much after every single fact. This is what the first paragraph should look like.

Missing information
This article is sorely lacking in content. Comparing it to another article, the Nitrox breathing gas article, there is plenty of content, including but not limited to it's maximum operating depth (MOD), health effects such as effects on decompression and narcosis, and different mixtures of the gas. The hydreliox article contains none of this. Perhaps it is because hydreliox is so rarely used that there is little information on it, but an effort should still be made to include at least a tiny snippet of this information.

Conclusion
Overall, this article is pretty mid. It's missing a lot of key information and looks pretty ugly. The article gives a little bit of background, and is a good starting point. However, if you would like to know anything else about the gas, you would have to look elsewhere. Compared to the article on Nitrox, this article is pretty pathetic. Due to the rarity of the gas's use, it is pretty expected to have a pretty barebones article.