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Old 22nd October 2006 | 09:37
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shortstripper
 
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Slight thread drift ... but "the bends" seem a very interesting subject when it comes to flight as well as diving. How high would you have to climb to unpressurised to possibly suffer in flight?

I worked for on a fishing vessel years ago where the skipper used to be an RAF diver (gunnery ranges out to sea) I mean the old type of frogman too ... like James bond in black rubber as it was in the sixties. He reckoned, whilst not impervious to the bends, that he had a high tolerance and had survived a bad episode with no ill effects when two collegues died So I guess it can effect people differently?

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