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From: tmartin@lims03.lerc.nasa.gov (DONALD MARTIN)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: RE: liquid scuba -- possible?
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.171557.3021@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 5 Feb 91 17:15:57 GMT
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Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
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Just completed some recent diving training.  I had asked the instructor the 
same questions that have been recently posted after seeing the abyss.  His 
response was that the equipment had indeed been tested on both humans and 
rodents.  The technical hangup from preventing its use is the method and 
equipment for removing the CO2, etc. from the liquid solution. 	It is either 
not available or does not lend itself to being carried on one's person (or 
rodent as the case may be)