The Complete Book of Decorating Techniques (1986)
call me OSHA the way i’m demanding a railing
mannnnn not a nitrogen narcosis post on the dash that's fully lying about what causes it and the effects of it
sorry but this is ridiculous... there isn't a 'subset of people' who are affected by it and we don't 'have no real idea why it happens to them'. it's nitrogen narcosis!! they literally REFER TO IT BY NAME IN THE POST!! you can open wikipedia and read a detailed breakdown of how and why it happens with diagrams and everything! aditionally there's no 'subset', it happens to literally everyone who goes down deep enough without special equipment! also it becomes a significant risk at 100 feet no 60 but I recognize that's nitpicky
just. why would anyone lie about this what's going onnnn
lol i am aware that if you throw somebody down to 100 feet real fucking fast, people will universally get narced.
the point was that there's no formula like for alcohol intake or other forms of intoxication where you can reliably estimate based on body mass + metabolism how much it'll take for a specific person to be affected. you take someone down to 60 feet and it's unpredictable whether they're good or not at that depth. the big 250 lb guy may completely lose his cool while the petite 120 lb woman is completely fine. we don't have clear science on why. people's personal limits of going from the testing threshold down lower aren't understood, the body chemistry of it and the way that nitrogen acts on different people's biology hasn't been deeply explored due to obvious limitations.
also from the 2nd paragraph of the wikipedia page:
Divers can learn to cope with some of the effects of narcosis, but it is impossible to develop a tolerance. Narcosis can affect all divers, although susceptibility varies widely among individuals and from dive to dive.
bottom line, some people are weirdly tolerant of deep dives while it hits others like a train. but the above paragraphs and in-depth explanation kind of break up the flow of the story. sorry if the original post got misconstrued without my extra rambling.
I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"
basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.
she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.
if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.
because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.
a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.
instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.
she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.
when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍
star trek writers need to accept that they are Never beating the gay spock allegations
EXACTLY @bones-heel-bounces
sorry @cupcaketaker i won’t let you leave this in the tags when it’s 100%correct
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i don’t really care about joyce carol oates or her opinions tbh but seeing her destroy some random white guy former adjunct professor on twitter with a thousand followers and the handle Piscesboy69 for disliking passing by nella larsen is incredibly fun for me
lmao get his ass!!!!!!
