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"Isobaric counterdiffusion" is what happens when Santa Clause sucks the Easter Bunny's dick - it's BULLSHIT. Bennett and Eliot I think have a mention of this crap where some Navy morons had a pig surrounded in argon and breathing helium, and "somehow" the pig got skin bent. No shit. Scott, I am surrounded in argon and breathing helium and everything else in some of the most provocative decompressions in history, and you have seen me in person - did I look like I had ever been injured? The "reasoning" for this Peter Panism is supposedly that the two vastly different gas mediums will provoke bubbling across the interface, which is pure bullshit. The sum of the inert gases is the opposite of the oxygen window, and those factors govern most deco on the one side, and the pressure differentials on the other. There is little or nothing else to it, other than the particular physiology involved, and as you know from seeing me, I would not make a very convincing pig, and a pig does not make a very convincing diver. B and E needs to remove this fairy tale from that book. one real interesting thing is this : the dumber something is, the better it is believed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott" <scottk@nw*.co*> To: "Techlist" <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Cc: "Trey" <trey@ne*.co*> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:38 PM Subject: Counter diffusion > George, > > Can you put the issues of "counter diffusion" into language a Jarhead can > understand? > > I was accosted this past week by a "Master Diver" who warned us that "If you > have to take a chamber ride after breathing that shit (helium) it will kill > you." > > I was so stunned by his position and attitude that I just nodded and > listened. > > Plus, I have no idea what counter diffusion is, or if or why it is an issue > to SCUBA divers. > > Scott > > -- > 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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