His birth had to be by Caesarean operation because time is over and he risks losing something important.

He has an older brother and some cousins in German, England and Norway.

Through his tygon veins ands stainless steel arteries pass fluids pumped by a heart formed by three Fürgut pumps working at 24 V.

One ofthem makes to function the peripheral system of closed-circuit.

The other two, working in a connected way, drive its right and left ventricles that make run the main circulation system communicating his lung also call gas equilibrator- with his liver, named LiCor that is a measured system of gasses by infrared.

Like his brother, he has a congenital illness and he needs have attended respiration. An Air-Cadet machine provides him comfort and air at atmospherically pressure.

His brain is a last generation Pentium with 2000 Professional Millennium software.

His preceptors and his parents have put inside their knowledge with the aim that his behaviour and cerebral orders will be the best for a long life and a good performance.

Thanks to this brain he can move his arms and legs –the valves of 2 and 3 ways- give him mobility to calibrate and check the levels of partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and in the sea water.

He never loses his north. A GPS provides him the needed coordinates to know always where he is.

He has very clear his destiny: to measure continuously partial pressure of carbon dioxide both in the air and in the seawater after their liquid and gas phases were equilibrated.

For this reason, he was baptized GAS-PAR.

If he were not born in time, he would have lost a cruise along the Atlantic Ocean on board R/V Hespérides towards he leaves today. There,

I am convincing that the fresh air agrees with him, and also he will feel useful.

Aida F. Ríos

14/02/2001