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Bullshit , Mike. I can drive home shitfaced drunk, and used to do so when I drank, and then hit a guy head on because he had his lights off. This would have been no big deal if I had been straight - I would have reacted. I did see him, just could not add it up fast enough. Luckily, he had a seatbelt on and I was so young that going through a windshield was no big deal for me. Diving is the same- eveything is fine and you can do known tasks by rote when impaired severely, only you can't deal with anything new effectively, and you can't do anything as well as clear, you lose all of your spacial senses, you lose your short term memory, all of your perceptions are distorted, your upper level frontal lobe brain functions ( starting with judgement, etc.) are immediatley compromised, and you progress from that point in about the same sequence as what you would see if you administerd a good dose of Versed on the operating table. Give that a try and dive - it is absolutely NO different. Again , Mike, diving medicine is bullshit as well. Thsoe guys learn from us, we don't learn from them. Michael J. Black wrote: > > Just stating the facts about nitrogen narcosis. I am not defending > deep diving on air, and have said before that I think it is great that > most of you are taking a clear stand against it. You don't have to > convince me about the dangers of nitrogen narcosis. However, some > adaptation to its effects is the current belief (my references are > Bruce Bassett, John Lippmann, and others but not Timothy Leary). > It appears to be physiologic and not just overlearning of mechanical > skills. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. > Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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