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Having read several people's comments on this subject in another thread, I began to wonder about this. I can honestly say that I have never experienced "the raptures of the deep". I've done two "dry dives" to 50 m and was completely unaffected both times. I felt perfectly normal and was able to carry out various tests (mathematical calculations etc) without difficulty. Many of the other divers were out of their minds – couldn't write their own names, didn't know their date of birth, just sat there giggling. I dive regularly on air to almost 40 m and have occasioanlly dived to almost 50m, without feeling anything at all. Many people tell me I must be affected without knowing it as everybody is affected over 30m, because that's what it says in the books. I don't believe it! Last time I dived (Thursday evening) my max depth was 37m and I tried to test myself by asking myself various questions: What's the name of that fish? How many of that kind of anenome have I seen on this dive so far? What year was my father born etc? I didn't need to think more than a second to come up with the right answer. One's susceptibility to nitrogen narcosis probably varies from day to day, like one's susceptibility to alcohol intoxication, depending on many factors, but I believe it varies even more from individual to individual and that I am one of the fortunate people that is hardly affected, if at all, at normal sports diving depths. There! I've stuck my neck out. What do you think?
Having read several people's comments on this subject in another thread, I began to wonder about this. I can honestly say that I have never experienced "the raptures of the deep". I've done two "dry dives" to 50 m and was completely unaffected both times. I felt perfectly normal and was able to carry out various tests (mathematical calculations etc) without difficulty. Many of the other divers were out of their minds – couldn't write their own names, didn't know their date of birth, just sat there giggling. I dive regularly on air to almost 40 m and have occasioanlly dived to almost 50m, without feeling anything at all. Many people tell me I must be affected without knowing it as everybody is affected over 30m, because that's what it says in the books. I don't believe it! Last time I dived (Thursday evening) my max depth was 37m and I tried to test myself by asking myself various questions: What's the name of that fish? How many of that kind of anenome have I seen on this dive so far? What year was my father born etc? I didn't need to think more than a second to come up with the right answer. One's susceptibility to nitrogen narcosis probably varies from day to day, like one's susceptibility to alcohol intoxication, depending on many factors, but I believe it varies even more from individual to individual and that I am one of the fortunate people that is hardly affected, if at all, at normal sports diving depths. There! I've stuck my neck out. What do you think?