Quote: (Originally Posted by
Mephisto26)
Like in any other sport if I fail I can try again just do it different the next time trial and error so to speak...like this I can find a way to do this dive with (as u say) only hurt my body as little as possible...
I think the art of technical diving lies within knowledge and skill...and on a cutting edge basis experience and knowing ur own body...progressing step by step and closly observing urself after every dive on signs and symptoms...
In my opininon a lot of people get bent in those kind of record dives because the depth differences get extremly big between the latest deepest dive and the next one (150m - 200m and so on)...
Hello.
Taking the opinion that you can minimise things "the next time" and hurt yourself as little as possible is naive at best. You either accept that you're going to get totally twisted and possibly not walk again OR don't do the dive. At the depths being discussed here, there is no such thing as damage limitation. Even the rapid compression to these depths is storing up problems for the future. Entities such as compression arthralgia demonstrate perfectly what a massive strain you are putting on your body at over 20 bars. Remember, the sport diving community has no data about the long term effects of diving to the depths we now consider "routine" and there is evidence from sat diving that neurological dysfunction can manifest itself in the future even when no immediate symptoms were apparent.
Technical diving isn't about equipment, any fool can buy a rebreather and scooter down to depth - it's about understanding the physiological considerations required to come back alive after spending bottom time at depth. There are NO mitigations that you can take beyond 200m to guarantee not getting bent and anyone who thinks they can (or was lucky enough to have got away with it a handful of times) is lying to themselves.