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| Originally Posted by Brian of Aquanauts As Mal said really but...
Narcosis is not a feeling, you ARE narked you just don't know it yet.
Now there is also a mistaken belief that work up dives and experience can get rid of narcosis. Well in the same way that a drunk can learn how to manipulate their car properly and with practice they can probably get better at it, a diver can learn how to dive while narked. However the drunk still can't stop the car when someone steps out of front of him, just as the diver will have problems dealing with an unexpected problem.
One of my friends is currently running a narcosis study at a chamber, and it's showing some quite interesting results about risk taking. Can't wait to see the paper. |
I don't know if I have told this here before but here is an interesting story.
While doing teaching the PADI Adv. for my wife and a client the darndest thing happened at 40 meters.
The exercise was tying a knot with a bit of rope at the surface and then doing it again at the bottom. The guy (Sasha) started it upon reaching 40 meters and completed the task perfectly. he then gave the rope over to my wife.
At this point we where around 5 minutes into the dive.
I noticed that his long hair was standing on end and kind of thought that to be funny looking. With closer inspection, I noticed a huge plume of bubble gushing from behind him! It was his low pressure inflator hose that had burst..... Bloody Scuba Tec cheapskate lousy lowdown......%$^&@$^^@
After checking Sasha's pressure, I discovered he only had 130bar left so I thumbed the dive. My wife was upset cause she didn't get to perform the assigned task
she and her buddy (Sasha) exchanged glances and she obviously did not notice he was close to death either
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I grabbed their hands and started our way up the slope and gave Sasha the sign that he is OOA. He thought "oh cool a suprise skill" and performed it as I shut his cylinder.
Back at the surface, I showed what had happened and we all sailed home laughing...... Sasha bought the most expensive Reg he could find...... (from Scuba Tec mind you and they had one of the dodgy LPI hoses on it too..... it ruptured 3 days later AAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
