[PSUBS-MAILIST] atmospheric control

[SIMON WALKDEN <mrsym0r@gmail.com>]

Hopefully someone will have an answer to this; while pondering
atmospheric control, I was trying to figure out the best way to make
things as safe as possible. Hypothetically, let's say you're in an
ambient sub and need to make an emergency surfacing. Or, you're in a
1atm and need to abandon your vessel - whatever the circumstance, you
need to be exposed to great pressure differentials in a short space of
time.

Diving physiology stipulates that you will get the bends. So, why not
control the nitrogen levels in a submersible and replace it with, say,
argon? Are there any specific reasons people do not control the
breathing mix in submersibles the way they are in technical diving
(other than the risk being so minute)?

-- 
"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum
immane mittam."



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