Well, I'll be damned I had it wrong the whole time. In actuality, 
NITROGEN is your friend.  Now let me get this straight, the reason you 
want to avoid helium is that it leaves your tissues faster? So if you 
freak out and hit the inflator button you will get bent worse than with 
nitrogen?

So, given the choice between being a narced zombie who would be 
incrementally safer in case you panic and head for the moon, or clear 
headed on helium, you would take the zombie? Just in case?

And let me guess, it's OK to for cavers to use helium because when you 
hit the inflator button in a cave, all you get is a headache?

This is the most warped, convoluted logic I have ever seen in my life. 
Will someone hit me in the head with a hammer and put me out of my 
misery? And the amazing thing about this is that no doubt that I have 
just a fraction of the dives under my belt than zambeck, this stuff still 
sounds insane.

   Jim


On 11/19/97 9:26 AM Greg Zambeck wrote:

>George "Helium is your friend", is this a male bonding thing you have
>going.  Helium comes out of solution five times faster than nitrogen.  The
>diver at whitefish Pte. Coming up from the Zilliah had a hit a 100 ft.  The
>diver off the Andrea Doria was in so much pain that he wanted someone to
>kill him.  Tell Mr. Bill that's a massive embolism from rapid
>decompression.  Not a burst lung like the one at Lake Wazee.


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