Trivia

[Morten Reistad]

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Baloney. The personally produced dry suit gas is the best. Remember, gases
isolate proportional to their molecular weight, and even a single sulphide
group trumphs an argon atom any day.

So, bring on the pre-dive bean, garlic and chili stew.

You may have problems finding someone to open your zipper after the dive,
though. This is "playing hard to want".

Once again, I can only find references to this on dubious list of fact.

This may be confusing things with "33 feet of water exerts 1 atmosphere of
pressure". So at 33 feet down, they're thinking you're now having 1 atm holding
the gas inside you. But even a moment's thought will provide anyone here with
personal examples of when there was more pressure than that involved from
one's inside. It'll be more _difficult_ the further down one goes, but there's
not a cutoff cork at 33 feet exactly.

Sounds fair.

This write is totally devoid of a clue. "Lying and knows it" would be proper
wording where I come from.

And they have not heard of reverse intestine squeeze? Not covered much
in litereature because it is only a matter of some pain, and the inevitable
outcome of having to let go of the pressure, drysuit or no drysuit.

-- mrr

[David Hatunen]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:49:54 -0700 (PDT), Duggy

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Once again, I can only find references to this on dubious list of
fact.

This may be confusing things with "33 feet of water exerts 1 atmosphere
of pressure". So at 33 feet down, they're thinking you're now having 1
atm holding the gas inside you. But even a moment's thought will
provide anyone here with personal examples of when there was more
pressure than that involved from one's inside. It'll be more
_difficult_ the further down one goes, but there's not a cutoff cork at
33 feet exactly.

Sounds fair.

Scuba divers manage to inhale and exhale at depths quite a bit deeper
than that. You have to keep in mind that your internal and external
pressures equalize as you descend.