| The first time I noticed the effects of nitrogen was on a dive where I realised that I was only going through the rituals of checking my air,
depth etc but not actually taking any notice of what the gauges said. I had to steady myself to make sure that I actually read the things.
I do believe that building up your depth is one way of reducing the effects although over exertion can still bring it on.
On one build up dive to a planed depth of 50m on a drop off my buddy took off flying and I just couldn’t keep up with him.
As he disappeared about the 45-50m mark I made my way to the surface and waited nervously in the boat for what seemed like ages.
Eventually he surfaced and when back in the boat he told me that he just felt that he wanted to go deeper so just kept going to he heard a drum banging,
he then stopped and thought “what’s that?” then realised it was his heart, looked at his computer and seen that he was at 63m and started to climb up the drop off. |