Post by jckent on Feb 6, 2006 16:35:17 GMT -5
Has anyone ever heard of such a stupid idea?
Taken from Londons Metro Newspaper
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Would you want a hi-tech high?
GETTING DRUNK WITHOUT the booze and the hangovers sounds too good to be true - but for some clubbers it could soon be a reality.
A new nightclub is planning to provide an experience that will be familiar to many divers - nitrogen narcosis, or 'the narks'.
Also known as the 'Martini effect', it causes giddiness and euphoria, occasionally accompanied by laughter or a loss of balance.
Divers experience this when breathing nitrogen under pressure. Although the exact mechanism is not known, the condition gives them a sensation similar to being drunk.
Now Club Narked aims to recreate the effect by locking revellers in a sealed, disused, bank vault and raising the air pressure. Revellers will be exposed to compressed air through the night, allowing the nitrogen to take effect, then be decompressed before they leave the vault.
Simon Wells, 32, one of the diving instructors behind the idea, said: 'Every diver gets ÒnarkedÓ at some point. They are basically drunk, but it's a giddy drunkenness.'
He said the club, which will be built in Newcastle, Leeds or Sheffield, would need to be in an old bank where there was a vault.
'The nitrogen does no harm to you whatsoever,' he added. 'It just makes you feel drunk. When you leave, after a safety spot to equalise the pressure, you feel normal.'
But Karl Holford, owner of the Diving Centre in Newcastle, said: 'I don't know whether you can replicate the experience on the surface.
'Any decompression needs to be handled by people who know what they are doing. The dangers could be anything from damage to your ear drums to haemorrhaging.'
Ref:
www.metro.co.uk/metro/standard/article.html?in_article_id=34489&in_page_id=1
Taken from Londons Metro Newspaper
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Would you want a hi-tech high?
GETTING DRUNK WITHOUT the booze and the hangovers sounds too good to be true - but for some clubbers it could soon be a reality.
A new nightclub is planning to provide an experience that will be familiar to many divers - nitrogen narcosis, or 'the narks'.
Also known as the 'Martini effect', it causes giddiness and euphoria, occasionally accompanied by laughter or a loss of balance.
Divers experience this when breathing nitrogen under pressure. Although the exact mechanism is not known, the condition gives them a sensation similar to being drunk.
Now Club Narked aims to recreate the effect by locking revellers in a sealed, disused, bank vault and raising the air pressure. Revellers will be exposed to compressed air through the night, allowing the nitrogen to take effect, then be decompressed before they leave the vault.
Simon Wells, 32, one of the diving instructors behind the idea, said: 'Every diver gets ÒnarkedÓ at some point. They are basically drunk, but it's a giddy drunkenness.'
He said the club, which will be built in Newcastle, Leeds or Sheffield, would need to be in an old bank where there was a vault.
'The nitrogen does no harm to you whatsoever,' he added. 'It just makes you feel drunk. When you leave, after a safety spot to equalise the pressure, you feel normal.'
But Karl Holford, owner of the Diving Centre in Newcastle, said: 'I don't know whether you can replicate the experience on the surface.
'Any decompression needs to be handled by people who know what they are doing. The dangers could be anything from damage to your ear drums to haemorrhaging.'
Ref:
www.metro.co.uk/metro/standard/article.html?in_article_id=34489&in_page_id=1
(just kidding) that said contribute or get out. So, here goes.
