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| Originally Posted by Garf spot on
shallow water blackout. What happens is that when you hyperventilate, you reduce the level of CO2 in your body to an artificially low level. you then go diving. Your body metabolises the oxygen and the Co2 levels start to rise. They take longer than normal to rise to the level that would cause the urge to breathe becuase they start at a lower level. Meanwhile, your body is using up more Oxygen than it normally would becuase you are holoding your breathe longer. This is not a problem when you are at depth as the PPO2 means your body can still metabolise the remaining Oxygen. As your head for the surface however, the PPO2 drops below the point where your body can metabolise it, and you expeirence hypoxia and blackout. |
Thaaaaaaaankyu Garf, I was hoping someone would come along and explain it correctly with words like metamorphmetabilationising and hippypoxed-up and stuff
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