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Subject: Re: [OM] underwater photography
From: "Charles Geilfuss" <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:04:58 -0500
  Can't help you there as I have no diving experience. If I can't get there
by holding my breath I don't go. We do have a neurosurgeon on staff who is a
very experienced diver. If I see him at lunch today I'll ask his opinion.

Charlie

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Thomas Heide Clausen <
olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Nov 13, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Darin wrote:
>
> >> I actually had some problems after 4 dives and had to stop. 130-150
> >> foot dives are easy to come by, but my body had a hard time adapting
> >> and I had to stop after the 4th dive in 3 days.
> >>
> > If you don't mind my asking, were the problems related to the
> > pressure, or
> > was it something  else?
>
> I would not pretend to know what Wayne's issues were, and I'm not an
> M.D. nor do I play one on TV - or even on this list (I leave that to
> Charles ;) ).
>
> But four 130-150ft dives in 3 days would -- for me -- imply that they
> would all be run as true decompression dives, preferably using oxygen-
> rich mixes for the (albeit short) decompression stops. I know that it
> is claimed possible to  do such as a sequence of "no decompression
> dives", and that it's done all over the world all the time.
>
> However if I do not do appropriate stops I just end up feeling like a
> wet newspaper -- in perfect "health" as such, just extremely fatigued
> and worn out.
>
> Adding a couple of decompression stops along the ascent, and
> ascending very slowly (especially the last couple of meter, where it
> be extremely slowly), and I'm ready to run a marathon upon surfacing
> -- in full form. If I can, I pony a Nitrox bottle for the deco, but
> that's just an extra margin.
>
> I'd almost bet that if the problem is "feeling wasted upon
> surfacing", and this feeling is cumulative, then it is -- absent a
> medical condition, of course -- a matter of ascending too fast.
>
> Thomas
>
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