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J Appl Physiol 17: 938-942, 1962;
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Some effects of apneic underwater diving on blood gases, lactate, and pressure in man

C. Robert Olsen 1, Darrell D. Fanestil 1, and Per F. Scholander 1

1 Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

Five men of outstanding diving ability performed apneic underwater dives in a specially fitted tank. The divers hyperventilated to extreme degrees of hypocapnia before submerging, and their arterial blood carbon dioxide tensions rarely rose above normal levels during a dive. Arterial blood oxygen content was 15.5 vol % or above at the end of two 3-min resting dives and of three 1.5-min exercise dives. Blood lactate concentrations increased during the latter half of exercise dives and reached peak values after surfacing. A rise in arterial blood pressure began by 10 sec in each dive and persisted, coincident with a falling heart rate, to the end of the dive. The rate of blood pressure rise was greater during a dive in water of 26 C than with breath holding by the same subject out of water. Some differences between the adaptations of diving men and of other diving mammals are briefly discussed.

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