Drinking before diving

[Sparky750]

Not all that long back i was offered a club dive in anglesey from the rib i was desperate to go on. Only problem was i was taking some clients and friends out the night before the dive. No problem i have only ever had 2 hangovers in my life (i know i'm lucky ) and i'll just take it easy on the night out and drink lots and lots of water when i get home and on the way to the dive should be fine. The night out got a little carried away with some good news to celebrate and a few other things take it easy i didn't I got home at 0630 getting picked up at 0730 so i set about drinking lucozade sport by the gallon took a shower and felt fine i slept on the hour or so journey and carried on taking fluids telling myself i'll be fine. We got on the rib and i felt fine for a whole 30 seconds then i started to Kermit. I was told it's only 10 mins to the site so kitted up thinking i'll feel better once i'm in. We rolled in and started to drop down still not feeling to clever but i'd thought that me canning it would mean my buddy would be out of a dive and that wasn't fair. At 22m i threw up into my reg and took on some water did i can it no switched to octo cleaned gunk out of my primary and switched back where i threw up again switched back and fourth a few times telling my buddy i'm OK. The rest of the dive went fine and i didn't do the second one.


Why did i dive? because i was so keen to get in the water i convinced myself i'd be fine, Why did i carry on after hurling in my reg? I was still drunk and wouldn't admit it to anyone. Because i was still brand new to the sport i didn't know about dehydration's relationship to the bends this was my 3rd or 4th dive and i hadn't gotten that far in lectures. It did however teach me never to drink before diving i now have 2-3 pints tops and thats it if i'm diving the next day and make sure i get a decent nights sleep.

I've classed this to myself as a schoolboy error that could have been a lot worse but i learned my lesson no doubt most on here knew all about this already but i didn't and hopefully this helps someone like myself at some point. Please feel free to take the p*ss i know how stupid it was and have learnt from it.

[sean0801]

I feel an overwhelming urge to post summat about qualifications

w4nker

[GLOC]

Thanks Sparky.

Most people know about the issues of diving after having drunk too much; dehydration, nausea, vomiting, intoxication....the list goes on. However, there are some people who don't know and fortunately Sparky lived to the tell and share his experience.

As he says, it was a very silly thing to do. Don't drink and dive. Most importantly, don't be afraid to the call a dive, for whatever reason. If you screw your buddy's day up for canning a dive, you owe him/her a load of beers. Much better that than them attending your funeral.

Regards

[ratcliffe]

Actually GLOC - some people might get worried at how much the beers may cost. You owe your buddy nothing if you can the dive, but beer is an added extra. Mind you in this case beer probably wouldn't be a good idea

[GLOC]

Originally Posted by ratcliffe

Actually GLOC - some people might get worried at how much the beers may cost. You owe your buddy nothing if you can the dive, but beer is an added extra. Mind you in this case beer probably wouldn't be a good idea

True, you owe them nothing if you can the dive. But I would personally think that had I canned the dive for something stupid (like this), I would owe them something in return.

I suppose this goes back to the comments in the other thread re: DM'ing; having enough courage in your convictions to follow through something which may be safe but not palatable (no pun intended ) to others in the group.

[Sparky750]

Originally Posted by sean0801

I feel an overwhelming urge to post summat about qualifications

w4nker

[ratcliffe]

Originally Posted by GLOC

True, you owe them nothing if you can the dive. But I would personally think that had I canned the dive for something stupid (like this), I would owe them something in return.

I suppose this goes back to the comments in the other thread re: DM'ing; having enough courage in your convictions to follow through something which may be safe but not palatable (no pun intended ) to others in the group.

I'm with you on that, I was just thinking that some people might carry on the dive rather than can it and think its going to cost them money, you know what people are like when money gets involved

[David Tombs]

Cripes,it was allmost drinking WHILST diving! Cerainly the one time i was very seasick was after a heavy nights drinking. AH well to err is human etc. Mind you,I've allways found vomiting in the water is a good way to see the fish!

[lucybuykx]

eeechh!

You don't say what time you stopped drinking the night before ... or was it morning .??? but I figure the lack of sleep probably contributed a lot to your not feeling so good....

[Sparky750]

Best guess 05:00 as thats when the club churns people out then we had Chinese i don't normally drink during meals