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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:41:43 +1000
From: Jens Schamberger <schambrg@ch*.us*.ed*.au*>
To: Trey <trey@ne*.co*>, Techlist <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: brain damage and divers
Trey,

thanks for your reply.

> Jens, the only one of us who has been MRI scanned and bone scanned
> extensively is me, and I show no necrosis of any kind and no spinal lesions.
> My brain appears like anyone else's that is my age.

Sounds like a prove or at least a strong hint that you do the
right thing. 

> JJ is working on getting somebody to study the rest of us this way and in
> other ways, but this takes a lot of money.

I can imagine that these things are very expensive. 
I would think that the diving industry or at least companies
like Draeger or Comex should be interessted in the research.

> If I am not
> getting wacked, then I doubt anyone else is either, however.

Quite resonable.

> data on this stuff. He is the one who showed me the spinal scans that
> compared to an MS patient on "commercial" 200 foot air divers.

That is frightening. 

> The fact is that "recreational" excesses in diving is what is more likely to
> cause problems: repeated air diving to 100 feet or more and excursions
> deeper on air, deco on air, and so forth. In other words, the uninitiated
> get the penalty.

Ok. Forget what I mentioned on the dive industrie, they will obviously
have no interessed in further studies.

Thanks, Jens.
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