Ah, Will, exactly how long have the Dutch been a nuclear power? Oh, yeah, 
that's right, they were the first country to build an a-bomb completely 
out of wood.

 Jim

On 4/25/98 2:24 PM William M. Smithers wrote:

>
>On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Steve Schinke wrote:
>
>> I had an uncle that was high up in canadian military diving before he 
>> retired and he told me about some research they were doing with hydrogen 
>> diving.  he said they could do it but that there were some interesting 
>> neurological side effects.
>>
>
>Actually, I've been doing some reading on neurological
>side-effects.  Researchers think this has more to do with depth
>than the gas.  There are studies that show that a person's
>psycho-nerological profile is immediately and permenantly
>altered with even a single exposure to really deep depths
>(like 1,000fsw).  
>
>I was also personally talking with a guy a couple
>of months ago who's a current Hyperbaric doctor
>with the U.S. Special Forces.  He was telling me
>about how he conducted one of these 
>studies, and that the neuro-psych profiles didn't
>just change a little - they changed *alot*.  One
>exposure, and they were a different person.
>
>I was down in the Carribean at the time, and how
>the conversation came up is itself interesting.
>The Dutch Navy apparently lost a nuke in the
>waters off St. Maarten a few years ago, and
>they side-scanned a huge area around the island
>in order to find it.  In the process, they mapped
>something like 1,000 undiscovered wrecks, but they 
>are all in 1,000 fsw!
>
>-Will
>
>
> 
>> STEVE
>> 
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