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A.APPLEYARD wrote:

>   > Keller and Buhlmann did a lot of mixed-gas diving research in the 60's ...
> Although Keller and Buhlmann kept their actual mixes secret their work was
> public. They invited the press to their trials.
>   What use was their work if they kept important details secret so others
> couldn't use their results for diving or as a basis for more research work?

Commercial awareness? I'd guess they were looking for financial
backing to develop their ideas and then to market them. Without
this work we probably wouldn't have the Buhlmann tables today.
I believe it was Keller who originally got Buhlmann involved in
table generation to support his diving.

>   > even up to the classic statement about the N2 and O2 stratifying in the
> cylinder, just as it does in the upper atmosphere (huh?).
> 
>   Who among them and when said/wrote that!?

The chairman.

Alan
awright@gs*.bt*.co*.uk*

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