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From: "Simon Murray" <simonm@ho*.co*.za*>
To: "Try Mix" <trimix101@ya*.co*.uk*>, "Tech Diver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Oceanos wreck
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:28:01 +0200
Hi Trymix,

South Africa is well known as a home of extreme strokery and I think that the
pictures on:
http://www.wrectdivers.co.za/ (see "The Story so Far") are an excellent example
of this.

The guys are/were planning to use a block + full face mask.  For one good
reason of why
not to do this, see the recent posts on Tony Maffatone's death.

I dont have any first hand experience of the Oceanos, but from what I hear, the
currents
can be extremely strong and deep scooters are a necessity.  My information may
be a little
out of date, but I understand that this expedition has been cancelled i.e. the
group did
not dive the Oceanos.

Why dont you post your real name ? You will find people are a lot more willing
to talk if
they know who you are!

Regards,

Simon Murray
South Africa

----- Original Message -----
From: Try Mix <trimix101@ya*.co*.uk*>
To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 8:38 PM
Subject: Oceanos wreck


Hi

I was looking for some info on South African tech
diving when I found the following site:
http://www.wrectdivers.co.za/

The site has been set up by a group of divers planning
to dive the wreck of the Oceanos, a liner which sank
off the coast of South Africa about 10 years ago. I
found one item under the technical info very
interesting:

"Once the primary divers have reached the surface,
they will be transferred to the medical boat where
they will be placed on a drip and pure oxygen. The
drip is to counter any dehydration experienced and the
oxygen is used against decompression sickness."


This isn't the first time I've heard of this
technique, but I thought that it had been written off.
I think that the idea was to discourage bubble
formation by increasing the blood pressure, and
because the saline acted as an anti-coagulant. Didn't
Rehan Bouwer try this technique in about 1990, and
decide it was not worth the effort?

The idea seems ill-founded to me. The Oceanos lies in
an area known for strong currents, with the result
that seperation is a realistic situation. If this is
the case, then easy return to the medical boat cannot
be assured. I would also not like to be the medic who
has to insert a drip into a cold diver on a small
pitching boat. And surely if the surface O2 and the
intravenous drip are needed, then the deco has been
cut dangerously short?

Does anyone else practise this technique?

Regards

TryMix


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