Quote: (Originally Posted by
Mephisto26)
One last thing about records:
In my opinion a record should not count if the diver gets out of the water bent...ok he/she had the balls to go there but made mistakes in planning or executing the dive so it wasn't a succesfull atempt...
Of course this is a very hard statment considering that those dives are done beyond known limits of physiology...
That's the first time I participate in a threat like that...now I wait for the ....
You wont have to wait very long...
You think mistakes in planning or executing are the main or only causes of getting bent on such deep dives? You think getting bent can be avoided? Your deluding yourself. We dont know anywhere near enough about deco to plan such dives with a large degree of confidence to not get bent.
Besides do you think anyone thats diving to these depths isnt getting bent on every dive? Just because its not obvious or caused pain doesnt mean to say you havent damaged yourself. I dont think its currently possible to dive this deep without hurting yourself to some degree. It may not always be obvious damage - but the damage is there maybe waiting - oh I dont know - for the day you dive a shallow 50m wreck before it strikes....
Dont believe the hype you often hear about "and the dive was done DCS free" most of the time deep divers are a bag of sh1t after such dives and some have residual symptoms that they live with afterwards albeit in many cases only slight - damage was done. They just keep it quiet - which hurts others- possibly because of fools who stupidly say things like "if the diver got bent he did something wrong and it shouldnt count"