| Narcosis tends to affect me in a variable but predictable way.
In the UK heading down the shot I get the willies a bit at 20m (but that's more due to CO2 I reckon) and sometime serious vertigo- as in it feels like I'm holding the line and spinning round it at a speed of about once a second. As I know it's coming, I just hold on and enjoy the ride although the first time it happened it was absolutely fcuking terrifying. As soon as there's something solid to focus on (like the wreck) the spinning stops.
As I head on down at 30m I can feel a slight creeping wooziness that is noticable but not impairing. At 35m it's a definite buzz (say the bottom of Stoney). At 40m it's a good couple of pints of Stella and at 50m in Swithland (cold dark deep silty quarry) I was absolutely tw@tted.
However in good viz (say on the James Barrie in Scapa in 43m) where Garf is peering myopically at his slate wondering who Barrie is, I felt fine if a little woozy.
On the Salsette in 2ft viz it was a thoroughly unpleasant experience and not one I would want to repeat in a hurry. In 8m viz (the 2nd time around) the dive was great- at 42m I felt a little woozy but perfectly capable of repositioning Smudge's shot so he could lift the thing. |