Talk:Augustus Agar

message: Can someone explain why the name of the page is Augustine William Shelton Agar, when the article repeatedly cites him as Augustus William Shelton Agar only? Brequinda 19:50, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is his correct first name being used? 

message: Does the last section of the article strike anyone as perhaps a bit oddly worded? Alastairward 14:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed rating to prompt a reassesment after recent changes. Folks at 137 21:26, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment 

message: This does not affect Agar personally, but Russian written sources don't confirm, that Petropavlovsk was sunk, nor even hit during attack on Kronstadt. Pibwl ←« 20:20, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sinking Petropavlovsk 

message: The article states Agar suffered from the bends after swimming to the suface from his sinking ship, but I thought you could only get the bends when surfacing too quickly after breathing compressed air.  Does anyone know for sure? SkipSmith (talk) 09:45, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bends? 

message: This article, providing there are more references available and with some restructuring, would be a good candidate for B-class promotion. Otr500 (talk) 19:15, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article promotion 

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message: Regards the following sentence in that section "When the Dorsetshire sank, Agar had been dragged down deep and suffered the bends while coming up, with serious damage to his lungs. Where did this bit of misinformation come from? Can someone please point me too it?
While Captain Agar may certainly well have suffered 'lung damage', I as a SCUBA diver Instructor Trainer for 30 odd years can assure you he did not get 'the bends', for several reasons.
You can't get the bends from a lung full of air taken at the surface and then swum / taken to some depth with that same lung full of air, not matter how fast you ascend. And you need to be underwater from a prolonged length of time - on SCUBA - and / or go very very deep to get 'the bends'.
What Captain Agar almost certainly suffered was AGE, or an Arterial Gas Embolism, which would certainly explain his lung 'damage'. Which is in itself odd though if he took the breathe of air at the surface, but he may have gulped a breath underwater somewhere while being dragged down and if he had not expelled that on his ascent then he almost certainly (i.e. 99.9% chance) he would have suffered some lung damage / AGE.
So I would suggest changing that sentence unless someone can refer to exactly where he was misdiagnosed with 'the bends'.
2001:999:53:B89:99C5:9561:E1F6:5B7C (talk) 11:32, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regards sentence in End Of Dorsetshire section