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Roger Herring wrote: >On Fri, 24 May 1996, Randall D. Johnson wrote: > >> Dear technos, >> >> The recent threat on narcosis reminded me of something. This *is* a >> serious question although I do not blame you if it sounds like a spoof. >> The situation is this: About 8 months ago I got my girlfriend of two >> years into diving. We have been on no deco dives together but I have >> taken her on >> some relatively deep dives for a novice (120 fsw). The unusual thing is >> that soon after these deeper dives she developed a lingering malaise of >> sorts which has now progressed into a situation which is more closely >> related to demonic possession! She has been to a doctor and therapist >> looking for answers but doesn't know what has happenned in her life to >> bring about such a huge and dramatic emotional shift. >> >Jesus! You have discovered something here. Only two years into the >relationship. It took mine 10 years for this "huge and dramatic emotional >shift" to occur. And she's never been diving. If this is true, what a >great "weed out" tool.... Cute, Roger. As George said, what Randall described is not inconsistent with a CNS DCS hit. Dr. Bruce Bassett, talking to the University Underwater Society at UT Austin in the 1970s, while he was running the Air Force School of Hyperbaric Medicine at Brooks AFB in San Antonio, described a similar case that he saw at the recompression chamber there. Three divers, two with Type I DCS symptoms, the third asymptomatic but apparently very subdued. All three had done the same dive, so they stuffed all three of them into the chamber and recompressed. The third guy underwent this incredible personality change after a few minutes at depth. During debrief, it developed that the third guy was normally this bright, sunny, cheery, outgoing type, and his behavior pre-treatment was VERY unusual for him. They chalked it up to a brain hit.
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