Science fiction becomes science fact for local dispensing chemist and inventor, Norman Briquette. Mans search for an oxygen rich compound that could be ingested by the human body, thus enabling prolonged periods of underwater activity without the need for cumbersome breathing apparatus is apparently over. Norman appears to have quite literally stumbled on the idea, when he fell onto some discarded chewing gum in Belford. " I noticed that the more I tried to remove the gum from my knee, the more tiny air bubbles became trapped in it. This sparked off the idea to overload a specially formulated latex with over four hundred times its own mass of pure oxygen....or something". The theory is quite simple. The slow release of oxygen into the bloodstream enables the user to stay submerged, hopefully without drowning. Secret trials of his new invention were conducted in various public swimming pools in the area during peak times so as not to arouse suspicion. "The last thing I wanted was for my discovery to be rumbled prematurely". After five near fatal accidents, and three instances of mouth to mouth resuscitation, Norman's trials were over, along with his liberty. Speaking from Felton Police Station, where he was being held subsequent to his arrest for 'repeatedly tampering with himself in a Public Bath,' he made it known that future tests would be carried out on an orally ingested equivalent to his original suppository design.