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FYI, Issue 5 of the Underwater Journal is now available. Visit the site and click Download Latest Issue to receive your Free! Adobe pdf copy.

To be expected of the Underwater Journal, we have put together another feature packed issue with interesting and informative articles and reviews covering:

· Patent Foramen Ovale - PFO, and its link to Decompression Sickness.
· Mermaids of Florida’s Weeki Wachee Springs.
· Freedom Divers – Our Wounded Warriors learn to dive in Bonaire.
· Diving California’s San Clemente Island.
· Scuba DoRags’ flamboyuant ScubaTubeSocks.
· Shearwater’s New Pursuit multi-gas, PO2 computer for rebreather divers.
· Olympus E-410 Digital Camera and PT-E03 housing System.
· Advanced Nitrox – Three gas computers, do you really need one?

Enjoy! And please give us your feedback – info@uwjournal.com.
 
Great issue! The Weeki Wachee story was cool!!!
 
Interview with Cardiologist Doug Ebersole MD talks about PFOs (Patent Foramen Ovale) which is a suspected risk factor for DCS (Decompression Sickness). PFO is a relatively benign cardiac defect that creates a passage in a wall that normally separates the left and right upper chambers of the heart. PFO is found in about 25 percent of adults. If gas bubbles form after a dive, the venous bloodstream will carry them to the right side of the heart. In divers with PFO, the bubbles could pass through the opening, bypassing the lungs and theoretically putting the diver at an increased risk of decompression sickness (DCS).

Download the Audio Podcast here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/poddiver/PD214.mp3
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/swift/

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