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Yes, I should have read it all first I s'pose, but since nobody else does...
"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...
I did a well planned, but thoroughly stupid, 70m dive on air and that really changed my perception on being narc'd. Managed to read the gauges and keep moving in the right direction but any cognitive stuff was out the window.
Don't imagine I'll ever do that again now that I've got a family but ti was worth doing, especially the going in the cave at 70 and coming out a chimney a 50m bit. Getting a shudder down the spine just thinking about it now
I quite enjoy narcosis, but you have to be aware and sort yourself out before you do anything silly.
I did guided dives on HMAS Swan for a while - there's a missile loading tube at the front which you can absolutely race down (crash dive style) until you hit the bottom. It's about 15 metres, got narked a few times down there - it's pretty dark and scary, until you realise that you're never more than 5m from the open ocean.
I am now, obviously, older and wiser. I've pretty much given up scuba now except for holidays. Being a DM in the UK was about as much fun as a kipper down your wetsuit on a shark feeding trip.
"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."
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