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I knew a guy who got hungry during dives. He solved the problem by inserting rectal suppositories filled with his favorite foods before the dives. Several of his buddies helped with larger items like BBQ'd ribs and whole baked potatos. One word of caution, don't use beenie weenies. He did and suffered a severe case of terminal flatulence while wearing a dry suit. He shot to the surface from his 300 foot deco stop because of the overinflated suit, and well you can guess the rest. Unfortunately, the story doesn't end here. The paramedic who attended the guy was smoking while unzipping the suit and it exploded horribly. You undoubtly read about it in the South Pacific Times because they were there covering the French Nuclear tests and thought the French had let go one of their tests without notice. Needless to say it produced quite a stink among the journalists. The dry suit manufacturer was eventually sued because of a defective dump valve. The suit was settled out of court. The terms of the agreement were never made public but the dry suit company soon thereafter began selling with their suits an anal sphincter ring to prevent divers from partaking of food via that route. A reporter for the Astronomer's Daily remarked that such events should be prevented in the future by using the ring around Uranus. On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Andreas M. Stolpe wrote: > > hi Simon > > An acquaintance of me (an experienced working diver) died after having > lunch! > > He was only on 30 m. During wreck excavation he suddenly left the > wrecksite and ascends to the surface. While climbing into the boat he > suddenly stopped moving and dropped back into the water. Immediate rescue > and reanimation using oxygen was useless. > After autopsy in a pathological institute they found that he has got a > little amount half-digested stomache content into his lungs. > > If you like to dine under water anyway place a resurrection machine > on your boat, don`t take too big mouthfull and chew your food properly! > > anyway pleasureful dives! > > ________________________________________________________________________________ ______________ > > Andreas M. Stolpe > Max-Planck Institute f. Medical Research phone: 0049-(0)-6221-486405 > Department Molecular Cell Research -06221-72314 (priv.) > Jahnstr. 29 fax: -06221-486325 > D-69120 Heidelberg e-mail: stolpe@mz*.mp*.mp*.de* > > ________________________________________________________________________________ ______________ > > > > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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