HBOT and How It Demonstrates the Ideal Gas Law

Marna:       How does HBOT demonstrate the Ideal Gas Law?

First, what is the Ideal Gas Law?    PV = nRT    

Pressure*Volume = number of moles*universal constant*temperature

in the case of diving in the HBOT, V, n and R are constant, then the variables are P and T

Pressure varies directly with temperature, so as pressure increases we would expect temperature to increase.  Conversely, as pressure decreases, we would expect temperature to similarly decrease.

As it turns out, we three can all testify to the temperature of the chamber increasing (whew!) as pressure increases during the dive (to about 20 feet) and decreasing (brrrr!) again while we are going up.  It's so cool to see the Ideal Gas Law work in reality!!!!

We saw a buck and doe in a front yard on a VERY busy street (Foul Bay)

Benj is going Canadian and will soon start busking on street corners in his toque, eh?

Sibling Bonding....

Naomi:        The great highlight of today was going to White Spot a fantastic restruant that can only be

found in Canada my opinion Go for the Ribs! as you can see Benj really enjoyed them as well as me and Kathleen. :) Also we got a bunch of clothes to the best of which for me was a purple Jacket all in all a truly amazing Day.

Today also was a good day of Hbot I noticed that I personally can breath a lot deeper than when I first started and my lungs feel a ton better pretty cool. Today also happened to be the first day I started to learn how to play a guitar and what better way then to learn from a master that spends hours play the one and only Benj thank to him i can now play big  E, something,  something and more somethings!

Thanks Benj.

                                          Our friend Kathleen and the kids at White Spot!

                                          Benj showing Na how to play guitar.  What a great big brother!

                                          Awesome Gold LEED Standard Condo's by the Waterfront!

                                         Right on the Galloping Goose!  Love the colors!!!

Big Brother Arrives!

Naomi: Katie my mentor came up for a week it was really fun.  We went to the Government House about 5 minites from where we are staying took a lot of beautiful pictures and hung out, it was fantastic!

Then my older, brother Benj came back with mom. Pretty cool, he brought back all the laughter with him :)

                                      Naomi and Katie, Bachlerettes for a week!

                                        Kid's Diving Together.....

                                                 Totem pole and cool architecture on the
                                                 Galloping Goose.

Benj:
So, this is it.
he final frontier.

CANADA!

Full of Canadians who dart in from of cars at the most inopportune times.

Flooded with people who are cheerful for no apparent reason.

Exploding awesomeness in every direction.

Not a bad place to vacation, ay?

Day 4: The Birds!! (and updated Picture Glitch)

Editor Note:  Apparently some of my pictures weren't appearing on the blog correctly.  Now instead of cutting and pasting from e-mail, I am copying and saving in Photoshop.  Amazingly, the picts are 100% better.  If you missed the picts the first time through, go look now.  They are there, and they are better!


Naomi:  Naomi is taking the night off after having a Peat Bath and going to bed early.

Our view while making lunch in Kathleen's Kitchen.





Marna: Today was my bizarre day of the birds.  On my first walk down to Starbuck's to download my podcasts, I was DIVE BOMBED by two crows in the Garry Oaks.  When I took out my camera to take their picture, they would go exactly far enough up the tree to make the picture worthless.  Then I would start walking and they would start DIVE BOMBING me again.  Weird!  I must look like a former enemy of theirs.  So I was meditating on the cause of such bird scorn, when I arrived at my usual outdoor table at Starbuck's.  As it was raining, I was the only soul outside.  As it was 11 C, I wanted to be outside, not in.  After I opened (my new super cool MacBook), one chickadee came and landed atop my screen, and another came and looked at me nicely from beside the computer, as if to say, "You're okay, we don't know what those crows are about."  They stayed for a very long while, until someone in a hurry came up the sidewalk and ruined the moment.  Birds Part 3:  Then as I was making lunch, I kept hearing very loud seagulls on the roof.  I looked up and took this picture above.  Boy, they are a noisy bunch!  Lastly, when I went back to SB, to download this pict, I was treated to 2 very lovely Anna's hummingbirds drinking nectar from the hanging flower baskets.  All-in-all, a great bird day!

Day 3: Bicycling to Therapy Both Dives!

Naomi:  Today was better as you see from the pictures below. Sun and little wind another great day well almost great day. Only slightly marred by my bike coming loose. Luckily we found a fantastic, place to fix my bike, called "Fairfield Bicycle Shop." They fixed everything on it that needed which was quite a lot in a half hour that is impressive If I do say myself. the first dive in The Hbot chamber was great, the second one was harder because I think the Darth Vader mask was loose too. But again I felt better afterwards. That's Naomi's report for Day 3.

The view from the Galloping Goose (about 2/3 of the way to HBOT)

Marna:  I wish I had a better camera!  This is a picture of the FANTASTIC bicycle shop that is about a block from where we are temporarily living.  Naomi's chain kept falling off when we went across the tressel bridge on the Galloping Goose (see first pict of the day).  When we got there, they fixed us right up and kept insisting on giving us a free water bottle with water in it.  Our overall impression of Canadians:  they are always SO DARN NICE!

On dive 2 I figured out how to adjust the Darth Vader mask so it isn't so darn much work to breath in the contraption.  Now I don't feel like I am suffocating half the time.  We had technical difficulties with two different versions of Pride and Prejudice on two different mediums today.  It just was NOT going to be a Pride and Prejudice day!  However, the value of an engaging movie while you are in the tank cannot be underestimated.