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To: Terry
To: McCracken <terrym@it*.ns*.co*.au*>
Subject: Re: Liquid breathing (PS)
From: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*>
Cc: techdiver@opal.com
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 13:30:38 +22305714 (HST)

> fitting. A small counter-lung with inert gas could take care of the breathing
> reflex.

Under pressure, the gas in your lungs/counterlung would diffuse into your
blood/tissues during the dive.  You'd have the same decompression problems
as any other diver (worse, because the inspired gas would be nearly 100%
diluent, undiluted by oxygen--even if you started with O2 in the
inhale/exhale gas, it would quickly drop to levels comparible to dissolved
O2 in the venous blood).

Sorry folks, I still think hard suits are the more realistic solution in the
next 50-100 years of human underwater activities.

Aloha,
Rich
deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*

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