lamont
Contributor
The doctor on Fox News just speculated about the risk of the bends due to 'getting more CO2 in your blood' as the miners come up from the depths. He said they've been talking about that aspect all evening... so by now he's got the analysis pretty well nailed.
That doesn't seem right at all.
Anyone inhaling enough CO2 at those depths to cause a tissue oversaturation on surfacing (ppCO2 > 1.0 ata) would be dead. CO2 also isn't inert and binds to hemoglobin.