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To: Marc
To: Dufour <mdufour@CA*.OR*>
Subject: Re: cryogenic rebreathers
From: "Christopher A. Brown" <chbrown@fr*.sc*.fs*.ed*>
Cc: techdiver@opal.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 22:05:41 -0500 (EST)

I was reading an old (60's) copy of Skin Diver one time and saw a good 
piece on a liquid oxygen scuba system. Jordan Klein, long time U/W 
filmmaker (Oscar for "Thunderball") was involved in developing it and 
many other U/W devices. Big problem is keeping the oxygen cold enuff to 
stay  in liquid form -- takes a double layered tank, thermos bottle type 
arrangement. The picture of the fill station showed a cloud of steam all 
around the place. It didn't look ( and wasn't) practical as an open 
circuit system. Forget closed. Closed circuit systems that work, 
reliably, are complex/expensive enuff, IMHO.

 Christopher A. Brown
The Technical Diving Video Library 
by Sci-Graphica PR/DOCENT FILMS
Tallahassee FL 32311
chbrown@fr*.fs*.ed*
P 904-942-7222, F 904-942-1240
It's not the pace of life that concerns me -- 
it's the sudden stop at the end.

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