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dept is ticularly in t cause trouble. t tal is not knoil quite recently it t anyone diving to one ers or so tedly proved otappears, according to As, t “ed.”
Plenty else can go t ed to times experienced a dreadedpo a catastrop. t too literally, sucked up into t and hosepipe.
o t is left in t are his bones and some rags of flesh,”
t J. B. S. e in 1947, adding for t of doubters, “this hashappened.”
(Incidentally, t, designed in 1823 by an Englisended not for diving but for fire-fig being made of metal it o enter burning structures in any form of attire, butmost especially not in somet ed up like a kettle and made to ttempt to save ment, Deane tried it underer and found it error of t so muc, t nitrogen. Put t nitrogen istransformed into tiny bubbles t migrate into tissues. If too rapidly—as oo-quick ascent by a diver—trapped o fizz in exactly ttle of ciny blood vessels, depriving cells of oxygen, and causing pain so excruciating tsufferers are prone to bend double in agony—he bends.”
tional imeimmemorial but didn’t attract muctention in tern il teentury, and t at all (or at least not very andnot generally muc on riverbeds to facilitate truction of bridge piers. ten ended period ofificial pressure toms like tingling or itc an unpredictable fe more insistent pain in ts and occasionally collapsedin agony, sometimes never to get up again.
It puzzling. Sometimes o bed feeling fine, but imes t all. As relates a story concerning tors