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To: ddoolett@me*.ad*.ed*.au*
Subject: Re: Oxygen Narcosis
From: shelps@ac*.ma*.ad*.ed*.au* (Prime Rat)
Cc: techdiver@opal.com
Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 10:29:12 +0930

>He was talking about a 200FSW plus dive on air, during compression 
>how do you invoke hypoxia?  What about CO2 toxicity?

CO2 is not toxic.  It is breathed out otherwise it would attain anesthetic 
concentration and you go to sleep, or are you asleep?

>Keep your contributions on diving physiology in the bounds of physics,
>I expect you will be trying to violate the laws of thermodynamics next.

Oxymoron,  diving PHYSIOLOGY is not PHYSICS.  His symtpoms were NEUROLOGICAL 
not mechanical or thermodynamic. 

/Rat


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