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Re: Spots on the long bones

There's an occupational hazard of diving called "long bone necrosis".
While I've not heard a definitive statement of what causes it, I've talked
with several doctors who offer an opinion that it's caused by the
procedures used to extract commercial divers from the water (long exposure
then yank'em up to the surface, strip'em down, put'em in a chamber, and
pressurize'em back down to decompress in the chamber).

     -- Kevin --

P.S. "necrosis" as in "dead/dying".  This is potentially serious since it's
the long bones of your body (or, rather, the marrow in them) that generates
most of the cells in your blood.

"I'll get around to it today --
          For sufficiently large values of 'today'"

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