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To: uunet!bent.wpd.sgi.com!story@uu*.UU*.NE*
Subject: In-water Decompression Completion
From: scifi!njs@uu*.UU*.NE* (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Cc: techdiver@santec.boston.ma.us
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 23:03:47 EST

>  The only in-water recompression procedure I would consider is one
>  utilizing pure O2, such as Dr. Edmonds', but I do not believe it to be
>  practical except in extremely remote locales.  I believe his article
>  makes the same point: when transportation is available, the victim
>  should be transported, not recompressed.

Of course, in the original paper on the Hawaiian method, it described
a pair of divers, both bent on the same dive, one of whom elected to
in-water recompress (even though the boat was leaving) and lived, and
the other, who elected to be transported to the local chamber, and
died. 

It may be that for severe cases of decompression sickness, extremely
rapid recompression (within five minutes of symptom onset) does have
some advantage.

Nick Simicich - uunet!bywater!scifi!njs - njs@wa*.ib*.co*
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