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Nathalie Cabrol

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1253 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

So it's very interesting because then that completely avoids the potential issues you may have with the binds.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

When you are diving, the risk of bubbles trapped in your lungs because of different pressures and different gases.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

When you are breathing regular air, when you are scuba diving here, you know that you have to do some different... When you're coming back, when you're diving deep and you have conventional air, then you need to stop so that you can equalize...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

the gases in your lungs.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

If you come back too fast, then you can have air bubbles stuck, and then you can risk the binds, which you can risk to be paralyzed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

You can risk a number of nasty issues.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

And we wanted absolutely to avoid that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

So diving with pure oxygen avoids this completely.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

And it has another benefit at high altitude is that, well,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

The greater risk when you are at high altitude is altitude sickness.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

What is altitude sickness?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

It's just you not having enough oxygen in your blood.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

So this was a good benefit.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

It was a good trade-off.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

We were lucky enough to be also trained by the military.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

So we came up with not the civilian rebreather, which is the big thing on the back that you carry on your back.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

We actually were given...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

Navy SEALs commando, rebreathers.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#348 โ€“ Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

The director of military operations.