20 Feb 96 06:19, Helene Mainville wrote to Steve Elliot:
 HM> My boyfriend brought home the movie ®The AbyssŻ yesterday. It was
 HM> impressive. It was hard for me to make what was real and what was 
cience
 HM> fiction. Is it really possible to breath this liquid nitrox or whatever 
it
 HM> was? H‚lŠne
I have seen film of a mouse breathing a liquid medium without any apparent 
harm.  They dumped him right into an aquarium of the stuff, and he just 
wandered around the bottom for a while.  I don't know what it was, but I'm 
certain it wasn't liquid nitrox.  At the time, they were talking about the 
possibilities of developing artificial gills for man to extract oxygen from 
the water.
No doubt if they succeed, then the diving equipment companies will jump 
aboard. Then the Scubapro Gill(tm) will be better than any other 
manufacturers artificial gill.  
Jay
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