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At 04:38 PM 4/1/97 -0600, you wrote: >Hey Chris....very interesting, but I have a question. > ><snip> > >In our experimental model, >> bacteria that metabolize hydrogen and carbon dioxide to methane and water >> were placed in the large intestines of rats. When the rats were pressurized >> in a hyperbaric chamber, the rate at which they released methane increased >> with increasing pressure of hydrogen in the chamber, starting within >> minutes from the introduction of the hydrogen. > >Wouldn't this create one pisser of an uncontrolled ascent in a drysuit, >especially for those divers who are already predisposed to considerable >flatulence. > > They didn't go into the quantity of gas produced. But realize the total amount of disolved gas you take into your system during a dive is pretty small. So the uncontrolled assent wouldn't likly be a significant issue. The flatulence on the other hand might be problamatic for your dive buddy at the end of the dive <G> Christopher M Parrett President Abysmal Diving Inc. Makers of Abyss, Advanced Dive Planning Software 6595 Odell Place, Suite G, Boulder, Colorado, 80301 USA http://WWW.ABYSMAL.COM Phone, 303-530-7248 Fax, 303-530-2808 -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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