Re: Deputies try to raise doomed sub

[hylands@ibm.net (Jon Hylands)]

On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 23:14:54 -0500, you wrote:

> Hansen was treated at Bronson for the bends, a painful condition caused
> by sudden removal from a pressurized atmosphere. Bronson is the only
> hospital in the state with a decompression chamber since Alpena General
> Hospital stopped using one early this year.

Why did this guy have the bends? His sub was a 1 atm sub, wasn't it?
You should be able to free-ascent from 100 feet without getting any
nitrogen build-up, shouldn't you?

Or was it the sudden change in pressure that did it?

Later,
Jon