Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Your Message Sent on Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:38:48 +0000

[Michael Holt <mholt@richmond.edu>]

Lew Clayman wrote:

> > mere fact that if you hold your breath at 10 feet will kill you
> > if you surfaced because your lungs will expand and explode.
> 
> Please tell me that this is a typo, possibly s/b "100 feet?"
> 
> I spent several childhood summers free-diving to 16' or so, never got anything
> worse than an ear infection...

I did the same thing.  Reading since then has convinced me that
maybe we were both lucky.  An embolism is *possible* in ten feet.
Not likely, probably because we're usually letting the air out
as we surface.



Mike