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>This sounds dangerous. I read once that some dignitaries had a dinner with
>champagne under pressure (not in diving, but in air under pressure in a
>caisson tunnelling under water). The champagne was flat due to the pressure.
>When they came up, it fizzed in their guts and gave them severe gut gas
>distension, and at least one of them had to be urgently recompressed.
Oh, I know about that... Gut squeeze. In french, it's colorfully called
"colique du scaphandrier", that is, hard-hat diver's colic... (I love that
word: "scaphandrier" - pronounce it "skah-phan (like ANthem)-drrree-ay")...
I found out the hard way *NOT* to eat mexican food before diving. Our gang
went to the olympic diving pool (which is 15 meters deep), and after
surfacing, well, I had it. The gas which was developped at depth expanded
(250%!) inside yours truly, and indeed, it was painful. But, fortunately, it
was so near the exhaust pipe that it did not take long for me to be relieved
in an unbelievable display of uncivility...
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