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From: "A.Appleyard" <A.APPLEYARD@fs*.mt*.um*.ac*.uk*>
To: techdiver@terra.net
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 10:57:50 BST
Subject: Liquid breathing

The BBC TV 1 (UK) program `Tomorrow's World' at 7.30-8 pm Fri 13 Oct 1995 had
an item about fluorocarbon liquid breathing as a treatment for very premature
babies with underdeveloped lungs. As a sideline it said that there is a story
that the USA navy special forces have liquid breathing diving gear and that 20
divers have dived with it. Does anyone out there know anything about this? It
would be a great pity if such a useful technique remained a shut-in naval
secret and the diving public and civilian work divers were shut out of it. I
still haven't forgiven the UK navy and Marines for hanging onto nitrox
rebreathering as a tight shut-in secret for 20 years from 1943 onwards while
civilian long-dive divers had to cart heavy open-circuit cylinders about.

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