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Old 23rd March 2006, 20:13   #8 (permalink)
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Re: bent using a rebreather?

Quote: (Originally Posted by decowarrior)
115m for 24 mins, 8 degrees water temp 4.5 hour run time, vpm b expedition table used

suit flood at 50m on the way back up, 6/72 bottom gas 1.3 setpoint switch to20/30 at 45m and a po2 rise to 1.5 until 6m where pure o2 was used and 20/30 for air breaks every 12 mins,

very cold by that point shaking and showing symptoms sat out all planned deco even thoughi was hypothermic which in hind sight may have not have been a wise course of action although at the time i thought i was doing the right thing

climbed the ladder unaided unclipped stages walked across the boat to sit down and dekit terrible burning pain and ringing in my ears as i unclipped my harness and lifted the lungs over my shoulder it was like someoine lifting a screen infront of my eyes slowly rising up until i blacked out and my mate caught me before i fell and made me lie down and did the o2 for a while symptoms completly went with just a general tired feeling until approx ttillhree hours later with a pins and needles s breathing o2 all the time as the boat was steaming back in,

as the boat tied up a sharp pain in both knees started which within five mins had progressed to a complete numbness in both legs and a loss of ability to stand or focus, the doc was on site in her car in a matter of mins as there were no ambulances available for the short journey which was thirty seconds walk!! but i couldnt walk so it was a necessity had full tests failed all of them in a real state by this point body in hypothermic shock severly dehydrated despite takin a litre of drink on the dive unable to locate a vein for the saline drip to get fluid in this continued for ages my arm was like a pin cushion, evertually got the drip in priceeded to whach saline in an atempt to rehydrate but sadly had missed and not realised and had the fluid going into tissue blown down to 18m for 9 hours on pure o2 had ox tox dehydartion burning lungs all usuall symptoms twitching started still great pain, pain subsided when raised to 9m after tenth or elevnth hour no residual symptoms walked out of the pot pain and symptom free due to the nature of incident medivaced to the commercial diving facility in aberdeen for further monitoring incase further treatment so they could use heliox as a treatment and be mre comfortable

six months later checked for pfo which was negative and no residual symptoms and all cleared to gas dive agaoin with no restricions

sorry for the long write up dont think i have missed anything
Ahhh, hence the title 'decowarrior' right? Jeez, that hurt just reading it. Glad you walked away from it OK.
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