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Dude! What a completely useless analogy. There once was a guy named Copernicus who had the idea that the sun is at rest at the center of the universe. His original theory had some inconsistancies and is not accepted today as valid, but it provided a stepping stone for work by Newton and others who more accurately descriped planetary motion. Why this is valid in regards to your post is that you seem to be a dyed in the wool Ptolemaic who hopes that his shouts of "the earth is at the center of the universe!" will be accepted by the group. I'll break down the analysis: The WKPP does extreme dives and pulls them off with a better track record then anyone else. The WKPP has decided that the NOAA model of oxygen tracking is not valid. PERIOD. They have procedures for dealing with tox and effective methods of avoiding it. They are doing the dives and gathering data which indicates that your precious NOAA model is not a good one. They may not have a "final answer", but they are showing that the NOAA model is not valid and your reluctance to admit that shows that you are not in this for the facts, as a scientist should be, but to prove you are right. You seem to have read and dogmatically accepted the NOAA model as immutable and sacred or at least until NOAA revises the model for you. You seem to be truly upset that someone could dare disagree with you. You attempt to confuse the issue, which is "how to effectively deal with oxygen exposure?", with rhetoric that would hardly fool a 12 year old. Here is the deal. If you want to be taken seriously you either do the dives, collect the data, formulate a new model and reiterate the cycle and improve your model, or get the WKPP data and show how they are wrong. But since they are not killing people or turning their divers into emphzemics you will probably have to do the dives, etc... Sound bites and cute but inaccurate analogies will not help anyone deal with oxygen exposure. Give us some way to understand what reality tells us is happening, the WKPP dives, or go some where else where people want to hear you expound on pony bottles. Brian "Michael J. Black" wrote: > The quick version: > > Mr. Hunsucker says it's not OK to speed with your car (exceed > pO2 1.6), but it is OK to run stop signs (exceed 100% CNS clock, up > to 20,000%). > > The dirty version: > > Your account is seriously past due, please pay immediately (WKPP > divers are going to get hurt, and are lucky to have made it this far > if you listen to Mr. Hunsucker). > > The safe version: > > Do not speed or run stop signs. Both can get you hurt. MJB -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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