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Having been engaged in a discussion with a number of readers on Undercurrent’s bulletin board, I’ve become
aware of many misconceptions about the real risks related to central nervous system (CNS) oxygen toxicity and
the rather benign effects of longer-term “low dose” exposure. Because so many divers use Nitrox these days and
therefore take in far more oxygen under pressure than they will with compressed air, a failure to understand oxygen
physiology puts a diver at high risk for disaster.
As divers, we must be concerned primarily with the effects of... more >>
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 From the September issue, Subscribers and Members can download the entire issue or individual articles
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• Castle Comfort Lodge, Dominica: A Caribbean dive and eco-tour feast at reasonable prices
• Will Katie Price's breast implants explode underwater?
• Greece's Aegean Islands: Dive here for wrecks and wine jugs
• Dive operators at Mexico's Guadalupe Island take shark tours to the extreme
• California declares diving "hazardous"
• The risks of oxygen at increased depths
• Save the whale sharks in their new home
• Two diver-friendly life insurance firms
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Cousteau himself has been dead nearly 14 years but he left a profound legacy for every last soul on our water planet. For us divers, he was extraordinarily special, a man whose every TV film we welcomed into our homes.
I hoped that one day Jacques would invite me to join the Calypso crew and sail the oceans to film it all with the hopes of saving it. Of course, I never got that invitation, but I did get to meet with him once, as a direct-mail fundraising copywriter, drafting letters for him to sign to acquire new members for the Cousteau Society.
He was committed, full of hopes and dreams, surely inspiring to write for. We raised a lot of money for his work, but from the outside, I slowly watched the Society crumble in the 90s. It’s a sad story, one of many tales told in Jacques Cousteau, the Sea King, the excellent new book by Brad Matsen.
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