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Bill Mee wrote:
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> The surface tension of the bubble can hold it
>in place and if the ambient pressure is reduced the bubble will burst
>the capillary and trigger an immune reaction as well as internal
>hemorrhaging.  Given this scenario you can see the importance for

    This is a good place to add the following equation to this one

    FAS = Sigma 4/3*Pi*R3

   Farm Animal Stupid = the sum of the times you get brain damgage from
the  4/3 pi times the radius of the bubble squared an ascent from the
omitted deep stops because some goober told you "it's bottom time".

   Now add in the difference between the surface tension in a nitrogen
bubble as compared to a helium bubble and ram that through capillaries
that are only big enough to fit one red cell at a time. This results in
DAS = Deep Air Stupid, where the brain damage caused by the above
application of the FAS equation for bubble size results in drooling
goobery and outwardly manifests itself in hose stuffing, butt-mounting,
etc.

   You might also be happy to know that the body has plenty of nitrogen
to constantly supply hungry growing young bubbles as they at first
expand and then subside, usually at a peak a few minutes after you are
out of the water. For you PFO and Shunt owners, that spells a CNS hit,
as in the term "wheelchir bent" that we hear so often, but then the
answer to that one from the FA's is "unearned hit".

   Let me rimind you just how stupid the dive community and even the
dive medical community is. There is an instance here in Florida where
the nurse in the chamber on a reompression died from her PFO at home  a
few hours after she went off duty . This shows where we are in this
stuff - nowhere. We need to get the FAS out of diving.

    It is funny that those who understand this stuff do it our way, and
those who don't, don't.
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