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From: anthony.appleyard@um*.ac*.uk*
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:59:37 +0100
Subject: Re: Why/Why Not TDI?
On 17 Jul 2003, at 14:39, Gary Hagland wrote:
> Think about the worst thing that can happen to a Nitrox diver, which isn't 
> a problem for someone breathing air. How about training them in how to 
> rescue a convulsing diver?  That's something normally not accomplished 
> successfully, but odds improve with the proper technique. ...

Presumably the rescue subject would have to learn how to imitate 
oxygen convulsions.

I remember once long ago, I was with some air scuba divers who 
were practising rescuing in a small flooded quarry inland. I was the 
body. Instead of the proper way, the rescuer towed me by one arm 
as if I was a dead sheep. I let my mouthpiece fall out, as if I was 
uconscious, and he did not notice it. I used my free arm to snatch 
a breath from my mouthpiece once in a while (but if I was genuinely 
unconscious I could not have done that). When he finally got me to 
the bank, I declared myself dead from drowning and I terminated 
the exercise.

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