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When Sat divers get bent it is usually due to failure of the chamber, which fortunately doesn't happen very often these days. From some of the horror stories that I have heard it is pretty bad. In the North sea they had a few problems with docking the diving bell to the storage chamber (living quarters). Its known as transfer under pressure, and the old design failed once. Apparently it was quite a mess, they also had a problem once with the medi-lock. Someone left the inside lock door open so that when the chamber operator couldn't open the outside lock easily they took a hammer to the door to loosen the bolts holding it closed. The people inside the chamber were sucked out through a ten inch hole killing themselves and the idiot outside. If someone starts getting symptoms as they are being brought up from sat. then all they would have to do is blow them back down and start again slower. It is really explosive deco that is the problem. On the lighter side I did hear a good story about a well known doctor in the U.K. who runs a large diving disease research centre (DDRC) who when bored during the decompression phase inside a chamber decided to unblock the toilet that had become blocked at a higher pressure. As he was poking around in it he dislodged the blockage enough for the contents to be blasted all over himself and the chamber. With several more hours left in the chamber it could not have been too comfortable. John M. Gibbons 0171-793-1101 Home Univ. London School of Pharmacy 0171-582-6561 Fax Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry 0171-753-5800 Wk ex 4882 jgibbo@cl*.ul*.ac*.uk* or jgibbo@cu*.ph*.lo*.ac*.uk*
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