Posted on 03/14/2002 3:09:36 PM PST by CPI News
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
HONG KONG, China -- A Russian sailor who survived after being trapped for six hours inside a sunken dredger said prayers and the thought of his family kept him alive.
"As the water rose, I just prayed and thought of my wife and my daughter in Russia," Chief engineer Viktor Larin told reporters on Wednesday.
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Probably ached for several hours following, but I would expect he'll be fine.
Yes, he needs to exhale on the way up or else the expanding air will rupture his lungs.
If you have SCUBA gear, yes, you should make a slow and careful ascent and follow your air bubbles.
If you have a single lung full of air and no SCUBA equipment, S#@%w the dive tables and get to the surface as fast as possible. A case of the Bends is treatable. A case of the Deads is not.
When I was a Navy Medical Officer at Guantanamo, we would occasionally get civilian Puerto Rican SCUBA divers with the bends flown in to GTMO when the decompression chamber at Roosevelt Roads was down. As I spoke Spanish, they would always be admitted to my service. These guys would dive for lobsters in SCUBA gear and flagrantly violated every dive table known to man. I was amazed at how long they had been able to away with it. Of course, once they got to me, their luck had run out.
On February 24, 1996, three light aircraft left Miami on a routine flight. Their missions, to search the waters off the Florida Coast for rafters trying to reach the US shores, and bring them help by guiding the US Coast Guard to their location. That day in February, only one plane would return to its home base in Miami.
Tune in to Radio FreeRepublic this Thursday, March 14, at 9 PM EST, and listen to the actual sounds of a terrorist in action, murdering unarmed American citizens.
Sr. José Basulto, founder of Brothers to the Rescue and pilot of the surviving Cessna, will shed light on the events of that day, and detail how the Clinton administration withheld advanced knowledge of the attack from the humanitarian volunteer group, helping seal the fate of these four courageous flyers.
Radio FreeRepublic, fearless talk radio.
I STRONGLY SUSPECT that the "survivor" of this undersea Tragedy is NOW confronted with HOURS of confusing & (mostly) irrelevant paperwork designed (mainly) to absolve ANY potentially associated bureaucratic Entities from ANY "Legal Liability" for the "Consequences" of the event!
My "prediction" is NOT "Made in Jest!"
WE NEED--as a Civilization--to examine the untoward results of our Unfettered Liability framework, & begin to apply some "Yankee (Very Often common) Sense" to this UTTERLY IRRATIONAL "Tort Lottery!"
A "Jury of One's Peers" Is NOT a collection of 12 Welfare Mothers whose ONLY connection with the "Real World" is Daytime Network "Schlok Shows!!"
It's TIME we "Screened" our prospective Jurors for a MINIMAL knowlege of our Declaration & our Constitution!! I'm SURE the "ACLU" will SCREAM "Discrimination," but, really, MOST AMERICANS Hope & assume our "Juries" have--at least--a Rudimentary knowlege of our Constitution!
IMHO!
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