Like the USN, they use heliox (a mixture of helium and oxygen) as a bottom gas, either heliox 90/10 (90 percent helium, 10 percent oxygen), heliox 84/16 or heliox 80/20, depending on the depth. ... technical divers primarily use trimix (an oxygen, helium and nitrogen mix) as bottom gas for open-circuit diving due to the expense of helium, …Web