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From: saffe@lut.fi (Petri Savolainen)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: liq. SCUBA
Message-ID: <1991Feb07.124821.22720@lut.fi>
Date: 7 Feb 91 12:48:21 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
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	Mmm, sorry, this is  going a bit off-limits, but as it seems
	there is some interest about the subject, i considered it to be o.k.
	in this case.

	My question is, does anyone know about filling lungs with liquid, but
	*NOT* breathing it? The trick was having a small(?) device connected
	to some major vein(s?) that took the CO2 off and provided enough oxy-
	gen. I do not remember any details, but that was the trick. It included
	some complicated chemical process, though. I think it may (???!) have
	included an external oxygen tank (?). Or was the device capable of so-
	mehow trapping oxygen from the water? Hemoglobin was somehow involved
	in the process also.

	The article about this was some 3-6 years ago in a Finnish magazine
	called "Tieteen kuvalehti" (I guess the outlook is quite similar to
	Scientific American for example) and it told that this was possible
	and even had been somewhat successful.

	   -saffe-