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Article: Poison detector uses color to save lives: the Quantum Eye alerts you to dangerous changes in carbon monoxide levels.(Brief Article)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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You can't help but wonder if either of the two fishermen experienced headaches, nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath or visual problems while steaming toward Bristol Bay's salmon season after Togiak's herring opening. Fatigue is another symptom of carbon monoxide poisoning, but after the herring season, they would have been tired anyway. As far as the other symptoms they may have shown, well, no one will ever know because when the boat was found, driven up on the beach, both fishermen were dead--one was in the wheelhouse and one in the galley.
If they had a carbon monoxide detector, it seems safe to think that they would have made that salmon opening. And you ...