"Oxygen and the Diver" by Kenneth Donald

"Oxygen and the Diver" has been mentioned in several threads recently.
Post Looking for “Oxygen and the Diver” by Kenneth Donald provided a useful link to the book in several pieces, which I have downloaded, assembled into one pdf, and OCR'd and optimized to keep the file size down.
It should be readable by Acrobat 10 or later.

Document Name: Oxygen and the Diver​

Author: Ken Donald​

See the attached file:​

Filename: Oxygen and the Diver - Ken Donald - full book optimized Acrobat10_OCR.pdf​

File Format: Adobe Acrobat​

Size: 15.1 MB​

Pages: 120​

 

[Pbdiver84]

Is this the same Ken Donald who Rachel Lance discusses in “Chamber Divers”? The one who… might not have done the work he claims credit for?

 

[leavenotrace]

Thank You for sharing this so freely.

 

[duke dive medicine]

Is this the same Ken Donald who Rachel Lance discusses in “Chamber Divers”? The one who… might not have done the work he claims credit for?

It is.

 

[Wallowa]

It is.

Plot thickens....more details please.....

 

[Pbdiver84]

Plot thickens....more details please.....

Read Chamber Divers. It came out earlier this year and covers Haldane Jr’s work in decompression and dive tables for X-craft and divers scouting for D-Day.

Ken Donald gets several lengthy sections on his interactions with the scientists late in the war. Let’s say that Dr. Lance is not impressed.

Meet the D-Day Scientists That Operationalized Self-contained Diving

In an era where tech divers routinely experiment on themselves, the notion that hyperbaric scientists did the same to support WWII’s D-day effort may not seem that far-fetched—though it certainly is from today’s ethical perspective! That’s what makes Dr. Rachel Lance’s new book, Chamber Divers...

indepthmag.com

Edit: links and acknowledge Lance’s PhD.