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07/12/2005: "ELECTROLUNG in use by the actual inventor"

Walter A Starck creeps toward a shy colony of garden eels at Osprey Reef. His electrolung was a revolutionary re-breather (no bubbles). Good for several hours at incredible depths, but not without serious decompression times being involved.

The helium-oxygen mix used presented technical considerations beyond the scope of anyone not already financially backed a commercial diving project or the military.

The training time required (in 1972) was said to be similar to that required to fly a light aircraft.

more later.....