It is with both great sadness and joy that I write this report. First of all, let me say that I'm glad New York State Divers Association President Jim McCann talked me into sharing this great breakthrough with NYSDA before anyone else,
After being in seclusion for the last couple of years, I have come back to my roots. Dr. Nosilur and myself have been at our secret laboratory in Hawaii. We have been working on an artificial gill for human use. The good news is that it works extremely well.
Our gill allows humans to explore the underwater world without limitations. You will never run out of air. You will not have to worry about decompression sickness or lung overexpansion injuries. The only things that you will have to worry about are overexposure to the cold and not coming home for dinner.
The bad news that I mentioned is that Dr. Nosilur personally has conducted the testing of the gill and has not returned yet. He started over a month ago. He did not pass away or anything bad. He is just having so much fun that he has not returned yet.
We get periodic reports from him when he surfaces to eat and sleep.
Helping us with the gill were Ebb T. Tenurb, a former employee of the famous Woods Hole. He is a quite man in his 40s. A mechanical genius, he built the prototype of the gill.
Also helping was the famous Russian Marine Biologist Sergey Kanrec.
You attach the gill to your chest area. There it makes a connection to your lungs, allowing you to get oxygen from water just as fish do. The exact way it works is our secret here at the Institute so I will not go into any details on how it works.

Right now we are still in the experimental testing stages. Most likely once this stage is over, we will be offering the gill to the military and to commercial concerns. If all goes well, we hope to have a model for the sport diver in 2001.
We will also have male and female models for the obvious reasons with the chest connections.
Anyway, we went to Rogers Rock on September 17 to19. We tested the Lenroc Mark 5 Artificial Gill under some harsh conditions. We also hid the testing under the cover story of doing an advanced scuba course. The Lenroc Mark 5 is the model that we hope to make available to sport divers. So we tested it under extreme sport diver conditions ­ Vvery cold lake water with lots of suspended particles, silt outs and darkness, among others.
We thought that the gill might not provide sufficient oxygen in silty water. But it works fantastically, even when we buried ourselves in the silt and mud on the bottom.
We stayed down a total of 30 hours over the weekend. We even went from one end of Lake George to the other on Sunday with underwater scooters. The only draw back is we got really hungry.
We feel that we are ready to advance to the next stage of testing. For this stage we will use real sport divers.
I have talked to the NYSDA President about this and he has given me a list of 5 or 6 people that we will contact to try the gill at the next NYSDA event.
So until the next report on the Lenroc Mark 5 Artificial Gill, dive safely.

Professor P. L. Lenroc