From: mcraig@talk21.com
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 12:29 PM
To: blue_planet@lists.MPGN.COM
Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - No Subject

There was a short but interesting article in my newspaper today about a 
possible method of protecting deep sea divers from the 'bends'. 
Apparently, researchers at the Naval Medical Research Centre in Maryland 
have injected cultures of of gut bacteria which dissolve hydrogen into 
pigs in an experimental test. Their apparent reasoning is that deep dives 
would be made safer if the level of dissolved hydrogen in the blood 
could be reduced. Those pigs not given the bacteria apparently are twice 
as likely to suffer from decompression sickness. I think the latest issue 
of New Scientist has the full story. If anyone else has any further 
information on this, I would be interested to hear about it. 

Malcolm Craig

-----------------------------------------------------
This message has been sent from talk21 http://www.talk21.com/

***************************************************************************
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line
'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.