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| View Poll Results: have you ever been bent while diving with a rebreather | |||
| Never !!! |    | 98 | 73.68% |
| Pain only DCS (joint, limb) |    | 15 | 11.28% |
| Skin bend |    | 9 | 6.77% |
| neurological DCS |    | 12 | 9.02% |
| Other symptoms (please explain) |    | 4 | 3.01% |
| While diving on Nitrox |    | 8 | 6.02% |
| While diving on Trimix | | 21 | 15.79% |
| While diving on Heliox | | 1 | 0.75% |
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24th March 2006, 04:06
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| Prism 'prentice  Current Rebreather/s: Prism Topaz Other Rebreather/s: Inspiration Classic Evolution Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Melbourne
Posts: 327
  | Re: bent using a rebreather? Mild joint (both shoulders, elbows) pain after 5 dives to ~40m over a weekend. Not bad enough to say definately that I was bent, but suggestive. Resolved at 18m on )2, returned after Table 62 treatment completion. Follow up treatment the next day (3 hours) resulted in most pain gone, but still twinged a bit for next week or so. Tired and run down before the weekend, probably a bit dehydrated during the weekend. Dives just inside profile of tables used. Got out of water after last dive and dragged stage tanks around. Mild pain developed over next hour or so. Found out later that one of my buddies had also felt a bit niggly, so had done a bunch of extra time on O2 at the end of the last dive - after I'd got out of the water. Not considered to be indicative of anything other than pushing a little and getting unlucky, back in the water 3 weeks later. Mike
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27th March 2006, 14:22
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| S21 M.I.B.    Current Rebreather/s: Evolution Megalodon Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Inspiration Classic Inspiration Vision Sport Kiss Classic Kiss Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Worldwide!
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  | Re: bent using a rebreather? Hi all, just for your information: my wife had a nice skin bend on the forearm a few years ago (purple skin and local pain). The purple area was very well delimited by the 2 straps of her wrist slate. The straps were too tight and the superficial blood circulation was impaired just in this area... Cheers
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27th March 2006, 15:22
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| Martini Diver   Current Rebreather/s: Inspiration Classic Inspiration Vision Evolution Megalodon Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: May 2005 Location: Hurghada (Egypt) and Lancaster (England)
Posts: 157
| Re: bent using a rebreather? Well you have all read about my bend, if you havent't then ... http://www.rebreatherworld.com/rebre...who-dives.html I missed putting a tick in the skin bend box. It was the full set and an eye embolisum. Still no reason but the doc who passed me "fit to dive" reckoned it was residual nitrogen build up over several days. I don't think that I will ever know what caused it. The only way to ensure that you don't get bent is don't dive. |
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2nd April 2006, 07:00
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| Classic Kiss 124  Current Rebreather/s: Classic Kiss Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 247
| Re: bent using a rebreather? Bad type 1. Actually a lymphatic bend. Body poored fluid into my tissues and I swelled up like a balloon. It was nice having boobs for a while! But the pain wasn't worth it... was miss diagnosed at the hospital. I ended up doing a 6 after I was released from the hospital and went to see my diving doc.....long story..... And one I am not proud of!! 160 on air at 1.3 cold dehydrated Worked hard stupid young learned my lesson!! |
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2nd April 2006, 15:27
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| Custom Title Disallowed!  Current Rebreather/s: Dolphin Other Rebreather/s: Dolphin Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Land of the Freef, UK.
Posts: 1,356
| Re: bent using a rebreather-false impression of Rebreather's The figures we end up with on here may make Rebreather's look higher risk than OC diving, in the same way that OC trimix is perceived to be higher risk than OC air type dives. It should be remembered that Rebreather diving [like OC trimix] is a more 'agressive' type of diving, and those of us that dive the technical end of diving ar more likely to get a bend. This isn't just because the diving is more risky, but the tables at this end of the diving spectrum are less tested than the air tables. If you compared the figures for 1000 air dives, 1000 OC trimix dives and 1 000 mod three type CCR dives I would expect there to be a higher incidence of bends in the final catagory. If you look at the type of diving that CCR's get used for then you could compare it to the man in the street who drives his car 12 000 miles a year and the formula one driver who crashes out at the first corner-he covered less miles, but the inherant risks were higher.
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