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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:48:25 -0400
From: George Irvine <gmirvine@sa*.ne*>
Organization: Woodville Karst Plain Project
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
CC: cavers@ge*.co*
Subject: narcosis
Going down fast just makes you notice the narcosis - it still takes a
couple of minutes to hit, however. Going slowly allows both the
judgement to get sufficiently impaired to accept the narcotic state, and
allows the boiled frog effect to work: if you throw a frog in boiling
water, he will jump out, but if you put him in cold water and bring it
to a boil, you can cook him.

  Anyone who suggess that there is any such thing as an "ability" to
deal with impairment is full of shit, and TBA.

  The prpobelm with diving is that the idiots who teach it keep
propagating this kind of strokery with deep air courses, "personal
comfort levels", and other crap.
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