Narcosis

[Ian@1904]

You will probably have been taught that nitrogen narcosis can start at about 30m an it can affect divers in different ways. Divers can become happy, very focussed on the gauges, or do strange things.......

A couple of years back I was diving off Gozo and my buddy for the holiday was a diver with some 25 dives. On the first dive we were at 30m when she started you act odd and looking around. Using international signalling we established that she could hear a shark swimming around.......

A few days later also at 30m and buddied together again I was searching around some rocks at the edge of a long drop off, and looked up to see that my buddy had swum off somewhere. I did the usual 360, and looked up, no sign. So I looked down. It is weird to see someone disco dancing on the sea bed. It can also put a buddy in a difficult situation-I had about 100 bar left and two minutes of no deco time. I was not deco trained at the time. I made the choice to go down, turned out to be 45m before I reached her.

Narked divers can often be very disorientated, my buddy swam along the slope and not up. So she literally had to be dragged up the slope. This is were the "incident pit" bit comes in........Buddy realised that she was lost, low on air.........her dive watch had a flat battery.....I had 17 mins of deco to do.......so how much did she have to do....... anyway we get up to 9m and start lying on the sea bed to do the long deco stop, buddy becomes positively buoyant, so I opted to lie on top to hold her down........then buddy runs out of air........good job I still had some air left.

It all ended happily but it was a bit close at times.

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by Ian@1904

I opted to lie on top to hold her down........it was a bit close at times.

I bet it was

Thanks for sharing that Ian.

Hxxx

[triplefin]

I know it wasnt meant to be funny but I did laugh at the thought of Ian trying to pin a struggling female to the sea bed
Sorry Ian thx for sharing amongst other things that just shows how deceiving depth is in blue water when u had to go to 45m

[Ian@1904]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

I bet it was

At the time I was worried about getting big slap either from buddy or wife. I got the impression that she was relaxed about the situation when she and her mates bought me quite a lot of drinks that evening.

[Diving Dude]

Ian, you left out the most important bit.
Babe or moose?

[gobfish1]

Babe, or he would have just swam off,

[triplefin]

Originally Posted by Ian@1904

I got the impression that she was relaxed about the situation when she and her mates bought me quite a lot of drinks that evening.

did they all offer to buddy u next time

[Ian@1904]

Originally Posted by gobfish1

Babe, or he would have just swam off,

Aged about 27, very much a babe, from Austria, and lots of fun.

I dived her mates the following day.

[Diving Dude]

Originally Posted by Ian@1904

I dived her mates the following day.

???, you can't leave it like this, details please. Unless you actually mean you buddied her mates on a dive

[Steve S]

Originally Posted by Diving Dude

???, you can't leave it like this, details please. Unless you actually mean you buddied her mates on a dive

Unfortunately Bendy has a harem of dive babes itching [no pun intended] to dive with him .......................................... I don't understand it either

Safe diving,
Steve

P.S. thanks for the post Ian and kudos for averting an incident