Reply to: The Scuba Diving Thread

[To BI or not to BI?]

i'm a qualified dive master, then i got a collapsed lung and told im not allowed to dive again

I am sure you could practice your watersports techniques with Rantor with no danger for your lung, though

(sorry to hear about it though, must be horrible...)

[Rantor]

did you mean "aficionado"?

Possibly - no english speel chucker on this PC!

[chef]

i'm a qualified dive master, then i got a collapsed lung and told im not allowed to dive again

[To BI or not to BI?]

Well I'm certainly happy to be a watersports officiando

did you mean "aficionado"?

[Rantor]

This is getting far too serious, now. What's happening to the forum? Where are all those innuendos?

Well I'm certainly happy to be a watersports officiando

[beaker]

This is getting far too serious, now. What's happening to the forum? Where are all those innuendos?

Ahem http://forums.contractoruk.com/345265-post22.html

[To BI or not to BI?]

This is getting far too serious, now. What's happening to the forum? Where are all those innuendos?

[Moscow Mule]

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.

[Rantor]

narcosis

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

[beaker]

Sitting in a hyperbaric chamber for 4 hours with a RAF piot's face mask strapped on tight is no fun, I can tell you...

What do at home is your own business. Anyway, back to scuba diving...

[cojak]

Do keep up with the whole thread cojak

Yes, I should have read it all first I s'pose, but since nobody else does...

[cojak]

ah, and don't get me started on DCI.....

but I did make a full recovery...

(Diving GP did suspect a bad egg butty rather than full blown DCI afterwards as I had no PFO when tested).

Sitting in a hyperbaric chamber for 4 hours with a RAF piot's face mask strapped on tight is no fun, I can tell you...

[Moscow Mule]

Then you might be in for a mild case of hypoxia/headaches - 21% nitrox mix is what we call 'air'...

Do keep up with the whole thread cojak

[cojak]

narcosis

[cojak]

I tend to use a 20% nitrox mix

Then you might be in for a mild case of hypoxia/headaches - 21% nitrox mix is what we call 'air'...