Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!violet!ajhainer From: ajhainer@violet.waterloo.edu (Allen J. Hainer) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: High Preasure Message-ID: <16770@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 18:06:07 GMT Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: ajhainer@violet.waterloo.edu (Allen J. Hainer) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 13 I have a question: Last night I saw the movie "The Abyse" (I know, I know, when will they start employing science advisors for movies like this ;-). What I want to know is, what damage does high preasure do to the body? (I already know what decompression does). In the movie, they breathed an oxygenated liquid to go to great depths. Unless oxygen condensation is the problem, I don't think this would help. But this got me thinking, what limits the depth that humans can dive to (I mean, besides comming up)? -al (ajhainer@violet.waterloo.edu)