On Sep 28, 2:48*pm, rw wrote:
David LaCourse wrote:
On 2009-09-28 14:31:30 -0400, Bill Grey said:

Yes indeed a simple mistake for the uninitiated but with possible long
lasting consequences. *The trick would have been to surface no faster
than your bubbles assuming you were breathing out.

Correct! *Years later when I got my NAUI ticket I thought of that day in
Back Lake.

Dave

You wouldn't have had to worry about the bends (nitrogen narcosis) at
that depth. What you should have worried about was the buildup of a
toxic concentration of carbon dioxide in the diving bell.

Good god, is there no end to self-satisfied fatuous ignorance? Didn't
he say that the water rose in the bell with each dive? Did he say
that it lowered again when they exhaled back into the bell? Carbon
dioxide buildup would require that all or at least some of the air
inhaled from it would have to be expelled back into it, don'tcha
think? And the bends?!?! and nitrogen narcosis?!?! (which, by the way
are not the same thing). Good god, there is no end to self-satisfied
fatuous ignorance!!

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EIGHT ****IN' FEET OF WATER HERE, PEOPLE!!!!!!

G.