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Egil I think you missed the whole point of the post Tom Aabel Naesguthe wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Tom Mount wrote: > > Tom, > > Although I found this quite funny, I am still trying to figure out what > purpose this exercise serves. I have never been really deep on air (~150 > ft), and quite frankly I have absolutely no desire to find out what that > is like, not even for two breaths. If there were no trimix I still would > not go that deep. This to me is the equivalent of trying anything that is > commonly known (deep air is by now) as being stupid or dangerous, just to > have tried it! Call me naive, but doing something like this once and then > never again (after completed trimix course) just doesn't fly with me. I > will quite happily accept just being told that my head will spin really > good at that depth (or whatever it is that happens down there) and > anything I were to attempt would be impossible to complete in a reasonable > manner. I don't have to try it out myself because it will never happen > again. EVER. Is it just the sensation of deep air you are demonstrating > to the students, or am I missing some other point here? It sounds almost > like closing the shop door and breathe gas fumes for a while until your > brain hurts, and then go outside and be really happy when the head ache > goes away again. Wouldn't make me any smarter, I'll tell you. I already > know the answer to what not to do there. > > Egil. > > > Taking this one step more this past weekend I was doing a trimix course > .... > > I dived air so that I could have each student swim up to me and take a > > few Hits of air at the sand at 200 feet/ 60 m. > .... > > guess what I forgot to have them come to me to breath air.I found that > > rather interesting so next time will take a small stage of air to > > demonstrate narcosis to the students instead of to myself. > > ==================================================================== > Egil Aabel Naesguthe > > Queen's University E-mail: egil@me*.qu*.ca* > Dept. of Mechanical Engineering > Kingston, ON Phone: +1 613-545 6730 > K7L 3N6 > Canada Fax: +1 613-545 6489 > ==================================================================== -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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