Drinking AFTER diving?

[deepbull]

Its why it's not a good idea to hold onto a shotline on deco

i dont hold on as this is doing all the work for me



i just move it up as i need


ada

[Luckyliz]

Nerd

Safe diving,
Steve

Guilty as charged...I love physics!

[Air Guzzler]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Summers
Nerd

Safe diving,
Steve

Guilty as charged...I love physics!

And you watch Brainiac with little Hammond doing the experiments

[Luckyliz]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Summers
Nerd

Safe diving,
Steve




And you watch Brainiac with little Hammond doing the experiments

Well it is prescribed watching in our house but I didn't know they'd done that one! I once did that 'experiment' unintentionally and got 'explosive boiling' coffee all over my hand when I put the spoon in to stir it - OUCH!

[dazdiver]

It's a quiet day in GP land, so I did a bit of hunting for research on beer and DCS. Couldn't find any, but I will offer my services to do the research if any of the major breweries wish to sponsor me. Especially Ringwood and Badger.

TBH I can't ever recall being specifically warned not to go and get bladdered post dive, and my experience of many liveaboard trips (several deep dives/day for several days, then beers until midnight) is that I haven't ever seen anyone get broken by this practice.

I think the vasodilator theory is maybe where this comes from - if you have bubble laden blood you want it going to your lungs and not so much to your skin.

Mines still a beer after a day of diving though...

CC

We always do 3 @ 6 That is 3 pints at 6 o clock ( get your deco done early.)

[DiverMike]

my experience of many liveaboard trips (several deep dives/day for several days, then beers until midnight) is that I haven't ever seen anyone get broken by this practice.

CC

I thought the higher incidence of DCI in scapa was in part related to the local wisky and efects of dehydration pre dive on DCI?

Mike

[dry suit diver]

Shotline?

thats a Jager train thats a dangerous theatrical way of serving Jagerbombs

[Leigh G]

Contrary to popular belief, alcoholic drinks don't dehydrate you, the amount of liquid in them, even in in shorts is actually more than you lose through consuming them. This is not why alcohol is not recommended after diving.
When a diver submerges, nitrogen is forced into the tissues, but tissues do not all ongas at the same rate, this is dependant on lots of different factors, but one of those is the amount of blood flow to a particuar body part. At the beginning of a dive, warm blood is travelling freely to the extremities, allowing fairly rapid ongassing, blood flow is restricted during the course of the dive due to body cooling, leading to less efficient offgassing of those tissues on the ascent.
After a dive, heavy excersise, alcohol, hot water etc can increase this blood flow back into the extremities, causing these oversaturated tissues to to offgas more quickly, and this can theoreticaly lead to a bend.

[NeilB]

Do we not also have a problem with alcohol dulling pain. So if you were developing a bend and started drinking you might not notice until it was really bad.....and then blame not being able to walk on the 'Old Peculiar' you had been drinking.

Numbness, tingling, loss of ballance, slurred speach.....drunk or DCI?

[Fiona]

Contrary to popular belief, alcoholic drinks don't dehydrate you, the amount of liquid in them, even in in shorts is actually more than you lose through consuming them.

What causes the hangover then. Obviously I am one of those who had always thought it does.