| Hello all. Lots of great information in the article and thanks for posting it Mr. Ducky, another great thread. My CCR buddy Captain Craig deWit of Golden Dawn related a very scary incident to me last year. He surfaced for a moment from a moderate deco OC dive to prevent one of his crew, who started the boat prematurely, from tangling a mooring line in the propeller and returned to finish his stop at 6 meters. He finished the deco felt fine, did another moderate OC deco dive and began to experience symptoms after the second dive had been completed. He imediately began to experience loss of motor control and was barely able to walk when he got in the water with a full face mask and O2 at 8 meters. The symptoms began to lessen almost imediately and were gone entirely by the time he exited the water 1hr later. He's sure IWR saved his life.
The next step would seem to be getting enough data and some models together to facilitate an IWR schedule for one's dive computer, based on the dive history before the hit. It would definitely be better than just outright guessing. It's probably asking too much of liability concious computer manufacturers, but it sure would give a little piece of mind for those of us who travel to remote dive locations.-Andy |