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	In a book called 'the frogmen', an ex-navy diver (UK WWII)
describes the history of military frogmen, harbour clearers and
charioteers from the initial Italian 'pig' attacks to the canal clearing
across Europe after D-Day. Fascinating. 

	He attributes Oxygen Pete to a wit who wrote poetry in one of
their test chambers. They would be placed in two metres of water under
two metres of air (with a handler in the air filled part of the chamber)
and compressed down to progressively deeper depths. The suit they used,
basically dry (damp?) had a pure O2 rebrether unit - utterly manual!

	'down at the depths of seventy feet, there lives a guy called
Oxygen Pete' - On meeting him they would get 'lips' followed very
quickly by a fit, and passing out. The description of these poor fellows
lifted out of the chamber on a hoist, nearly dead, is quite unnerving.

	Having experienced lips, they could tell when they would need to
get shallower when on ops. What a way to learn!

	Jason.

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