Saw this on Another Forum...Deep Deep Diving

[RockPile]

I have worked with SEALs and several of the Navy diving subcommunities and that has been my experience. Like submariners, they realized their lives in some part depended on those before them keeping their mouths shut and they made an effort to pay that forward.

There were some I would not want representing me in congress, but I could work with any of them.

In my experience, Navy SEALs don't have a personality type (some are outgoing and some aren't) and are very approachable. Those that I've been around have always been perfectly willing to talk shop. They like to tell stories like anyone else. Also, the perception that they are prohibited from talking about their job is a bit over-blown.

What if we could substitute a totally benign gas that had no toxicity at any partial pressure, would not dissolve in blood, would non-reactively blend with oxygen and had no narcotic effect? There are literally hundreds of these so called "freon" compounds, some pure molecules, some azeotropic molecules and many blends of both categories. Has anyone ever heard of any research done on mixed gas halocarbon diving?

Now that is an interesting thought. I'd definitely like to hear more... Sounds like you've already put some thought into it too. I definitely think it's thread worthy.

JB

 

[mousek801]

shure there are many military specialists that cant say what they do but the average (well you know what i mean) seal probally can tell stories to his friends.

 

[Vie]

Is there an English version of this?

I have only a vague idea of what the words you used are supposed to mean.

I am guessing that "If they are calling shek exely and idiot (who was a fairly good friend of mine and happened to have a PhD) then i dont want to hear anything they have to say" (originally posted by D1V3R) "translates" as:

If they are calling Sheck Exley, who was a fairly good friend of mine and happened to have a PhD, an idiot then I don't care to listen to anything they have to say.

 

[Storm]

You guys are still kicking this one around? It's sci-fi guys. T

he medical application is about as far as it will go in our lifetime and that of our kids. The equipment and specialized medical personnel required to safely use liquid breathing for medical purposes is complex and massive. Not something one could back on one's back. BTW the medical procedure calls for partial liquid breathing to releive infacnt lings from teh stress of gas breathing. At nos time were the infants completely "drowned".

Then there's the fact that in the non medical testing, dogs where as far as they could go as their lung capacity to air intake requirements were so small that they could physically breathe the liquid and extract enough O2 to survive...not flourish...survive. There was still signs of lung damage.

I'm not a big fan of wikipedia as there are no checks to ensure the information is accurate, but as I did read up in the initial Kylstra's and the Clark & Golan experiments ifrom seperate piblished papers, the wikipedia, coverage is pretty good an d accurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing

Read up guys sci-fact is often more interesting than sci-fi.

 

[Don Burke]

I am guessing that "If they are calling shek exely and idiot (who was a fairly good friend of mine and happened to have a PhD) then i dont want to hear anything they have to say" (originally posted by D1V3R) "translates" as:

If they are calling Sheck Exley, who was a fairly good friend of mine and happened to have a PhD, an idiot then I don't care to listen to anything they have to say.

That was my first guess, but what does that have to do with anything on this thread?

 

[Vie]

That was my first guess, but what does that have to do with anything on this thread?

You got me there.

 

[Don Burke]

shure there are many military specialists that cant say what they do but the average (well you know what i mean) seal probally can tell stories to his friends.

That is often an excellent way to get someone killed.

Sure, shop talk about how a rebreather works is fair game, but the subject of this thread would not be casual conversation.

I have found that the majority of "SEALs" one meets out and about have never been SEALs.

 

[The Kraken]

Ya can talk about what you do, just not "where".

the K

 

[Brewone0to]

If they are calling shek exely and idiot (who was a fairly good friend of mine and happened to have a PhD) then i dont want to hear anything they have to say

Yes,
Isn't it funny how they can call him an idiot for pushing the limits of diving while they
enjoy the safety that all his (and many others) previous dives made pushing the limits have afforded us all.
What happened to him was tragic,and nobody will ever know for sure exactly what happened down there.But I still weep thinking of the past and that we will not see him at any of the springs as we go to dive. I for one can still hear his laugh sometimes when I go to them...........

 

[Brewone0to]

That was my first guess, but what does that have to do with anything on this thread?

Earlier on in one of the post someone made a comment comparison of this threads content to"Some idiots in Mexico diving to 1000ft on open scuba"
I don't remember hearing of many people pulling that one off,
So,that is what has offended him,myself and probably a board moderator,
because I quick scanned over the thread and couldn't find it.
But, it WAS there.
I am very sorry about putting this info up,and hopefully haven't offended anyone with it.I really don't mean any sort of harm by it to anyone:sad_2: