Thread: Head down on deco =14% faster off gasing
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Old 15th December 2007, 22:29   #24 (permalink)
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Re: Head down on deco =14% faster off gasing
Quote: (Originally Posted by Freef) View Original Post
In water you have no more loss of gravitational effect than you do in the basket of a helium balloon. You are still under the influence of the Earth's pull.
Quote: (Originally Posted by Freef) View Original Post
No more than being horizontal in bed. If you were vertical in the water the blood would be in your legs to the same extent as if you were on dry land.
As David suggests, you are wrong about this in terms of haemodynamics and distribution of blood volume (the subject of my post). There is a significant effect of immersion which is well documented in all good physiology texts.

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