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#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Benefits of Freediving With Pure Oxygen

When you are diving, the risk of bubbles trapped in your lungs because of different pressures and different gases. We wanted absolutely to avoid that so diving with pure oxygen avoids this completely. And it has another benefit: The greater risk when you are at I altitude is altitude sickness. So we were lucky enough to be also trained by the military. They came up with not the civilian rebriever, which is the big thing on the back that you carry on your back. We actually were given Navy SEALs commando rebrivers. You worked with Navy SEALs for this? Yes. It was a good trade off.

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