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chilly - 08 Mar 2008 07:27 GMT
I'm sorry to report that on my most recent trip, I had another mild episode
of skin bends.

This episode was significantly less troublesome/painful than last year, and
had I not had that significant skinbend event last year, I probably wouldn't
even have noticed this time.

I really hate to start getting paranoid but . .um . . these little things
are starting make me remember stuff over the years.  For example, while on a
gorilla dive trip in Roatan, I came out of the water one beautiful day and
was so tired, I could hardly take care of my gear.   At the time, I just
thought I should "man-up" and so I said nothing to anyone and went home for
a laydown, figuring I was just getting long in the tooth.

Over the years, I've had the odd event of numbness around my mouth and
tingling in my pinkie and ring fingers.  Hey, I'm not talking every dive or
even every tenth dive.  These are all very little things that I just thought
little about at the time but now, and like I said, I'm trying not to get
paranoid, but  . . ..
Grumman-581 - 08 Mar 2008 08:12 GMT
> I'm sorry to report that on my most recent trip, I had another mild
> episode of skin bends.
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> thought little about at the time but now, and like I said, I'm trying not
> to get paranoid, but  . . ..

Sound like you need to rethink your banana wearing practices...

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chilly - 08 Mar 2008 08:55 GMT
> Sound like you need to rethink your banana wearing practices...

Yeah, maybe I should stuff it in the hole in my heart?
JRE - 08 Mar 2008 12:06 GMT
>> Sound like you need to rethink your banana wearing practices...
>
> Yeah, maybe I should stuff it in the hole in my heart?

If you have a PFO and all you've had are skin bends, you've been lucky;
I have seen Type II DCS hits result from a PFO.  (Type II is CNS
involvement.)

I'm not a doctor, but in my opinion if you have a PFO you should
consider (a) surgery--they make an "umbrella patch" they can insert via
a catheter--or (b) other sports.

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chilly - 09 Mar 2008 23:22 GMT
> > "Grumman-581" <grumman581-usenet-2008@spambob.net> wrote in message

news:pan.2008.03.08.08.12.48.515000@grumman581-usenet-2008-spambob-net...

> >> Sound like you need to rethink your banana wearing practices...
> >
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> consider (a) surgery--they make an "umbrella patch" they can insert via
> a catheter--or (b) other sports.

I don't know if I have PFO.  I was being a bit flip in my previous comment.
As you said, it is more likely that I would have had something serious
happen by now, if that were the case.

I'll be more closely analysing my individual dives from here on in, looking
to see if there is something else I'm doing that could be contributing to
these relatively minor 'symptoms'.
No Spam - 09 Mar 2008 02:49 GMT
>> Sound like you need to rethink your banana wearing practices...
>
> Yeah, maybe I should stuff it in the hole in my heart?

Do you have a hole in your heart?
chilly - 09 Mar 2008 13:15 GMT
> > "Grumman-581" <grumman581-usenet-2008@spambob.net> wrote in message
> > news:pan.2008.03.08.08.12.48.515000@grumman581-usenet-2008-spambob-
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> Do you have a hole in your heart?

Maybe, dunno for sure.  It's more likely that I have a hole where my heart
should be.
Lee Bell - 09 Mar 2008 14:24 GMT
>> Do you have a hole in your heart?
>
> Maybe, dunno for sure.  It's more likely that I have a hole where my heart
> should be.

Not normally considered a DCS risk.
mat.voss - 09 Mar 2008 14:25 GMT
>>>"Grumman-581" <grumman581-usenet-2008@spambob.net> wrote in message
>>>news:pan.2008.03.08.08.12.48.515000@grumman581-usenet-2008-spambob-
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Maybe, dunno for sure.  It's more likely that I have a hole where my heart
> should be.

Have a closer look.
I myself have at least 4 holes in my heart.
Right side intake, right side outlet, left side intake, left side outlet.
I think that makes me a two-stroke.

Matthias
Scott - 09 Mar 2008 14:31 GMT
> Have a closer look.
> I myself have at least 4 holes in my heart.
> Right side intake, right side outlet, left side intake, left side outlet.
> I think that makes me a two-stroke.

No, you have valves...
mat.voss - 09 Mar 2008 14:33 GMT
>>Have a closer look.
>>I myself have at least 4 holes in my heart.
>>Right side intake, right side outlet, left side intake, left side outlet.
>>I think that makes me a two-stroke.
>
> No, you have valves...

I hope so... Definitely no PFO.

Matthias
Scott - 09 Mar 2008 14:42 GMT
> >>Have a closer look.
> >>I myself have at least 4 holes in my heart.
> >>Right side intake, right side outlet, left side intake, left side outlet.
> >>I think that makes me a two-stroke.

> > No, you have valves...

> I hope so... Definitely no PFO.

I think that makes us, like, an 8 stroke...
Al Wells - 09 Mar 2008 15:22 GMT
> > Have a closer look.
> > I myself have at least 4 holes in my heart.
> > Right side intake, right side outlet, left side intake, left side outlet.
> > I think that makes me a two-stroke.
>
> No, you have valves...

My favorite bike (RD350) was a 2 stroke and had reed valves
Scott - 09 Mar 2008 15:38 GMT
> > > Have a closer look.
> > > I myself have at least 4 holes in my heart.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> My favorite bike (RD350) was a 2 stroke and had reed valves

Amen.

I had 6 of them (RD350/400's) at various times, many of my friends rode them
too.

Absolutely brutal little bikes.

We had one doing 63 hp at 13,000, and the powerband was from like 8500 on;
below that you couldn't get the clutch out.

My next fave was the 650 Turbo Seca. It was like a big RD350/400 and a lot
faster.

Still, there is nothing like a 120 cubic inch Panhead in a rigid frame that
weighs 450 pounds full.

http://www.leinewebercams.com/SHOVELHEAD%20&%20PANHEAD%20CAMS.htm

Check out the J4 and the L5 cams.
Dillon Pyron - 10 Mar 2008 05:35 GMT
[Default] Thus spake "Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com>:

>> > > Have a closer look.
>> > > I myself have at least 4 holes in my heart.
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
>We had one doing 63 hp at 13,000, and the powerband was from like 8500 on;
>below that you couldn't get the clutch out.

I am with you entriely on that.  Try a race ready version.  I was
getting probably 75 bhp at 16K.  Very nasty little monster.  But I
regularly ate 500s for lunch.

I enjoyed taking my street bike out and hunting Corvettes.  Back then,
crotch rockets (then known as cafe racers) were not well known or
feared.

>My next fave was the 650 Turbo Seca. It was like a big RD350/400 and a lot
>faster.
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
>Check out the J4 and the L5 cams.
mat.voss - 09 Mar 2008 17:55 GMT
>>>Have a closer look.
>>>I myself have at least 4 holes in my heart.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> My favorite bike (RD350) was a 2 stroke and had reed valves

Reeds like in g-reed-y ;-)

Matthias
Lee Bell - 09 Mar 2008 17:29 GMT
>> Have a closer look.
>> I myself have at least 4 holes in my heart.
>> Right side intake, right side outlet, left side intake, left side outlet.
>> I think that makes me a two-stroke.
>
> No, you have valves...

Reed valves. He's definitely a two stroke.
mag3 - 08 Mar 2008 12:00 GMT
>I'm sorry to report that on my most recent trip, I had another mild episode
>of skin bends.
>
>This episode was significantly less troublesome/painful than last year, and
>had I not had that significant skinbend event last year, I probably wouldn't
>even have noticed this time.

Do you recall any similarities or differences in your diving patterns that may
have brought on the symptoms as wiith previous episodes? That is, this time,
did you dive more/less often or in same/different conditions such that the
symptoms occured than when diving where the symtpoms did not occur?
Do any particular dives "stand out" this time that haven't when you don't
get the condition?

Sorry, my computer brain at work.... :-)

____________________________________________
Regards,

Arnold
chilly - 08 Mar 2008 20:07 GMT
> >I'm sorry to report that on my most recent trip, I had another mild episode
> >of skin bends.
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>
> Sorry, my computer brain at work.... :-)

Nope, I've thought that over carefully, and even last time, I couldn't think
of anything unusual.  The last time, I had had one dive, that I felt I may
have ascended too rapidly on the last 15 feet.  Other than that, nothing
seemed out of the ordinary on any of the dives.  That said, I've only just
started to be extra observant.

> ____________________________________________
> Regards,
>
> Arnold
crownfield - 09 Mar 2008 21:49 GMT
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-"mag3" <zmpmag3-plongee@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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->
-> >I'm sorry to report that on my most recent trip, I had another mild
-episode
-> >of skin bends.
-> >
-> >This episode was significantly less troublesome/painful than last year,
-and
-> >had I not had that significant skinbend event last year, I probably
-wouldn't
-> >even have noticed this time.
->
-> Do you recall any similarities or differences in your diving patterns that
-may
-> have brought on the symptoms as wiith previous episodes? That is, this
-time,
-> did you dive more/less often or in same/different conditions such that the
-> symptoms occured than when diving where the symtpoms did not occur?
-> Do any particular dives "stand out" this time that haven't when you don't
-> get the condition?
->
-> Sorry, my computer brain at work.... :-)
->
-
-Nope, I've thought that over carefully, and even last time, I couldn't think
-of anything unusual.  The last time, I had had one dive, that I felt I may
-have ascended too rapidly on the last 15 feet.  Other than that, nothing
-seemed out of the ordinary on any of the dives.  That said, I've only just
-started to be extra observant.

any prior activities that might be causes?
dehydration?

have you added any safety factor to your tables?

-
-> ____________________________________________
-> Regards,
->
-> Arnold
-
-
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Dillon Pyron - 10 Mar 2008 05:39 GMT
[Default] Thus spake "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada>:

>> >I'm sorry to report that on my most recent trip, I had another mild
>episode
[quoted text clipped - 22 lines]
>seemed out of the ordinary on any of the dives.  That said, I've only just
>started to be extra observant.

I had a very good friend who took an undeserved hit in Cozumel.  She
was well within the tables, first dive of the day, 16 hours since her
previous dive, well hydrated, etc.  She took five rides in the chamber
before being transfered to Houston.  She did another four there.  She
was a quad.  That was in 1995.  She died about a year ago, much before
her time.

>> ____________________________________________
>> Regards,
>>
>> Arnold
mat.voss - 08 Mar 2008 12:21 GMT
> Over the years, I've had the odd event of numbness around my mouth and
> tingling in my pinkie and ring fingers.  Hey, I'm not talking every dive or
> even every tenth dive.  These are all very little things that I just thought
> little about at the time but now, and like I said, I'm trying not to get
> paranoid, but  . . ..

Sounds more like an affection of nerves/vertebrae, or bad sleeping habits.
Like squeezing vessels by an unfortunate combination of sleep position
and mattress.

Or a problem with Vitamin B metabolisation.
I don't know wether a mild diabetes could create such nerve problems.
Vitamin B/Magnesium related problems may be exacerbated by substance abuse.

An important tool to differentiate is, go diving and evaluate if the
problem go away under pressure.

Similar with tiredness. In diving,it is mostly a micro bubble related
symptom, and should go away with normobaric 100% Oxygen breathing.

Another consideration should be to invetigate evaentually changed
drinking habits, or other leisure activities.

My last years decompression problem (considered toatally "undeserved",
even by some experts) could be partially tracked down to a combination
of lacking hydration ( caused by drinking habits, formerly wine,
changing to cidre... your intestines will know the difference...), and
some strenous walking( 18+11+10 km) through the mountaineous heather at
a pace of more than 4 miles/hour.
Others were current, use of reel while fighting current.

Matthias
chilly - 09 Mar 2008 23:18 GMT
> > Over the years, I've had the odd event of numbness around my mouth and
> > tingling in my pinkie and ring fingers.  Hey, I'm not talking every dive or
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
> Sounds more like an affection of nerves/vertebrae, or bad sleeping habits.

Do you think I'm sneaking a nap in on my dives?

> Like squeezing vessels by an unfortunate combination of sleep position
> and mattress.

That doesn't explain why I'm fine when I go into the water and have the
symptoms when I come out of the water.

> Or a problem with Vitamin B metabolisation.

??

> I don't know wether a mild diabetes could create such nerve problems.

No diabetes, mild or otherwise.

> Vitamin B/Magnesium related problems may be exacerbated by substance abuse.

??

> An important tool to differentiate is, go diving and evaluate if the
> problem go away under pressure.
>
> Similar with tiredness. In diving,it is mostly a micro bubble related
> symptom, and should go away with normobaric 100% Oxygen breathing.

Well, I went diving the next day, did 3 or 4 dives and the day after that
and so on and so on.  I do not remember being that tired again.

> Another consideration should be to invetigate evaentually changed
> drinking habits, or other leisure activities.

You mean like give up diving? ;^)

> My last years decompression problem (considered toatally "undeserved",
> even by some experts) could be partially tracked down to a combination
> of lacking hydration ( caused by drinking habits, formerly wine,
> changing to cidre... your intestines will know the difference...),

I make special effort to ensure I'm well hydrated.  I am not as successful
in ensuring I am well-rested because I have had espisodes of insomnia
throughout my adult life.

> and
> some strenous walking( 18+11+10 km) through the mountaineous heather at
> a pace of more than 4 miles/hour.
> Others were current, use of reel while fighting current.

I do lots of walking and dancing, when on the majority of my dive trips.
Which is at least two of the reasons, I'm not currently interested in a
live-aboard dive vacation.
mat.voss - 09 Mar 2008 23:34 GMT
>>Sounds more like an affection of nerves/vertebrae, or bad sleeping habits.
>
> Do you think I'm sneaking a nap in on my dives?

Why not, during long decompression ;-).

>>Like squeezing vessels by an unfortunate combination of sleep position
>>and mattress.
>
> That doesn't explain why I'm fine when I go into the water and have the
> symptoms when I come out of the water.

Point taken.

>>Or a problem with Vitamin B metabolisation.
>
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> ??

Drinking a certain amount of alcohol on a regular basis over extended
periods can cause an affection of nerves.

>>An important tool to differentiate is, go diving and evaluate if the
>>problem go away under pressure.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Well, I went diving the next day, did 3 or 4 dives and the day after that
> and so on and so on.  I do not remember being that tired again.

So probably a good compression7decompression cycle cured it.

> I make special effort to ensure I'm well hydrated.  I am not as successful
> in ensuring I am well-rested because I have had espisodes of insomnia
> throughout my adult life.

Well, insomnia can change the way the body deals with its fluid regime.
Same goes for jet lag, reason to take it easy after travels east/westward.

>>some strenous walking( 18+11+10 km) through the mountaineous heather at
>>a pace of more than 4 miles/hour.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Which is at least two of the reasons, I'm not currently interested in a
> live-aboard dive vacation.

I haven't sen you dance, but it is exactly such activities which could
lead to risks in diving.
Exerting joints, or doing exercise with max power ( limbo..), may
further the build-up of microbubbles.

Matthias
chilly - 10 Mar 2008 00:51 GMT
> >>I don't know wether a mild diabetes could create such nerve problems.
> >>Vitamin B/Magnesium related problems may be exacerbated by substance abuse.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Drinking a certain amount of alcohol on a regular basis over extended
> periods can cause an affection of nerves.

I rarely drink . . that is unless I'm on vacation.  :^)

> > Well, I went diving the next day, did 3 or 4 dives and the day after that
> > and so on and so on.  I do not remember being that tired again.
>
> So probably a good compression7decompression cycle cured it.

Maybe.  Or maybe I did just need a nap.

> > I make special effort to ensure I'm well hydrated.  I am not as successful
> > in ensuring I am well-rested because I have had espisodes of insomnia
> > throughout my adult life.
>
> Well, insomnia can change the way the body deals with its fluid regime.
> Same goes for jet lag, reason to take it easy after travels east/westward.

Most of my dive travels are from north to south.

> >>some strenous walking( 18+11+10 km) through the mountaineous heather at
> >>a pace of more than 4 miles/hour.
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> Exerting joints, or doing exercise with max power ( limbo..), may
> further the build-up of microbubbles.

Well, I don't do the limbo but I can do the punta.  In any event, wouldln't
the further build-up of microbubbles be felt after the dancing and not after
the dive(s) the next day or so?
Dan Bracuk - 10 Mar 2008 01:16 GMT
"chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> pounded away at his keyboard resulting
in:

:Well, I don't do the limbo but I can do the punta.

Like this?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcibCO8HwPU

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chilly - 10 Mar 2008 08:20 GMT
> "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> pounded away at his keyboard resulting
> in:
>
> :Well, I don't do the limbo but I can do the punta.
>
> Like this?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcibCO8HwPU

Well, that's pretty tame since it has been all cleaned up for a highschool
review, but yeah, I guess that's the idea.
mat.voss - 10 Mar 2008 09:12 GMT
> Well, I don't do the limbo but I can do the punta.  In any event, wouldln't
> the further build-up of microbubbles be felt after the dancing and not after
> the dive(s) the next day or so?

If you feel them after the dancing, it would be the result of a massive
bubble overload, and a very bad decompression profile, typical for a
long multilevel dive with quite some time around 100 ft, no deep stops,
only a safety stop, e.g. NDL bladerunning, plus additional risks.

I attribute a higher probability to itching post dancing, because
exertion may create "points of interest" where microbubbles are likely
to be generated.
Like soda perls which always seem to originate fom the same spot in a
soda bottle.

Matthias
chilly - 10 Mar 2008 18:51 GMT
> > Well, I don't do the limbo but I can do the punta.  In any event, wouldln't
> > the further build-up of microbubbles be felt after the dancing and not after
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> long multilevel dive with quite some time around 100 ft, no deep stops,
> only a safety stop, e.g. NDL bladerunning, plus additional risks.

I do not feel them after dancing.  I do deep stops.

> I attribute a higher probability to itching post dancing, because
> exertion may create "points of interest" where microbubbles are likely
> to be generated.

I don't itch after dancing.

> Like soda perls which always seem to originate fom the same spot in a
> soda bottle.
>
> Matthias
dechucka - 14 Mar 2008 02:05 GMT
>> Over the years, I've had the odd event of numbness around my mouth and
>> tingling in my pinkie and ring fingers.  Hey, I'm not talking every dive
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
> Similar with tiredness. In diving,it is mostly a micro bubble related
> symptom, and should go away with normobaric 100% Oxygen breathing.

breathing 100% oxygen is dangerous
Grumman-581 - 14 Mar 2008 03:08 GMT
> breathing 100% oxygen is dangerous

Not as dangerous as breathing 100% nitrogen or 100% helium...

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janusz_w@hotmail.com - 14 Mar 2008 13:39 GMT
On 14 Mar, 03:08, Grumman-581 <grumman581-usenet-2...@spambob.net>
wrote:
> > breathing 100% oxygen is dangerous
>
> Not as dangerous as breathing 100% nitrogen or 100% helium...

maybe effects aren't so fast

Janusz
Grumman-581 - 14 Mar 2008 13:45 GMT
> maybe effects aren't so fast

Perhaps... As they say, "good health is just the slowest possible way of
dying"...

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janusz_w@hotmail.com - 15 Mar 2008 09:16 GMT
On 14 Mar, 13:45, Grumman-581 <grumman581-usenet-2...@spambob.net>
wrote:
> > maybe effects aren't so fast
>
> Perhaps... As they say, "good health is just the slowest possible way of
> dying"...

Life as a sexually transmitted fatal disease?

Janusz
Dillon Pyron - 16 Mar 2008 20:10 GMT
[Default] Thus spake "janusz_w@hotmail.com" <janusz_w@hotmail.com>:

>On 14 Mar, 13:45, Grumman-581 <grumman581-usenet-2...@spambob.net>
>wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
>Janusz

I saw that as a .sig in Usenet about 15 years ago.

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease that is inevitably fatal"
janusz_w@hotmail.com - 17 Mar 2008 23:09 GMT
> [Default] Thus spake "janus...@hotmail.com" <janus...@hotmail.com>:
>
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>
> "Life is a sexually transmitted disease that is inevitably fatal"

The one I used is the English title of Krzysztof Zanussi movie from
2000. Quite  good BTW.

Janusz
Dillon Pyron - 20 Mar 2008 23:21 GMT
[Default] Thus spake "janusz_w@hotmail.com" <janusz_w@hotmail.com>:

>> [Default] Thus spake "janus...@hotmail.com" <janus...@hotmail.com>:
>>
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
>
>Janusz

One of my favotire SF books was titled "Zot".  Since they made the
much worse "Solaris" into a movie, I wonder if they will do the same
with what I consider to best Lem's best work.
janusz_w@hotmail.com - 21 Mar 2008 10:34 GMT
> [Default] Thus spake "janus...@hotmail.com" <janus...@hotmail.com>:
>
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
>
> One of my favotire SF books was titled "Zot".
"Zot" - never heard of it, but I'm not great fun of Lem.

>Since they made the
> much worse "Solaris" into a movie, I wonder if they will do the same
> with what I consider to best Lem's best work.
Which version of "Solaris"? American or Russian?

Janusz
Lee Bell - 21 Mar 2008 14:25 GMT
> One of my favotire SF books was titled "Zot".  Since they made the
> much worse "Solaris" into a movie, I wonder if they will do the same
> with what I consider to best Lem's best work.

When I read this, I thought you were talking about Zotz, by Walter Karig. It
was probably the first Science Fiction Book I ever read. I've read just
about any and all science fiction I've been able to get my hands on since.

Lee
Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick - 14 Mar 2008 10:40 GMT
> "mat.voss" <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote in message

>> Similar with tiredness. In diving,it is mostly a micro bubble related
>> symptom, and should go away with normobaric 100% Oxygen breathing.
>
> breathing 100% oxygen is dangerous

 Not everyone is an Aussie.

 Most would put the cigarette out first.

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dechucka - 18 Mar 2008 23:23 GMT
>> "mat.voss" <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote in message
>
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
>  Most would put the cigarette out first.

you would put your "fag" out first ? ( poor Scotty) . What gun would you
use?
Morten Reistad - 24 Mar 2008 10:04 GMT
>> "mat.voss" <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote in message
>
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
>  Most would put the cigarette out first.

But in a pure O2 athmposphere you can inhale the whole cigarette in
one breath!

-- mrr
mat.voss - 14 Mar 2008 12:04 GMT
>>>Over the years, I've had the odd event of numbness around my mouth and
>>>tingling in my pinkie and ring fingers.  Hey, I'm not talking every dive
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
>
> breathing 100% oxygen is dangerous

Get out of your quack-yard. Life is dangerous. So are cangarous.

Matthias
Al Wells - 14 Mar 2008 13:19 GMT
> > breathing 100% oxygen is dangerous
>
> Get out of your quack-yard. Life is dangerous. So are cangarous.

I think it was Bill Hamilton who said "Oxygen is addictive; everyone who
breathes it will eventually die".
Scott - 14 Mar 2008 22:32 GMT
> I think it was Bill Hamilton who said "Oxygen is addictive; everyone who
> breathes it will eventually die".

100%
janusz_w@hotmail.com - 14 Mar 2008 13:47 GMT
> >>>Over the years, I've had the odd event of numbness around my mouth and
> >>>tingling in my pinkie and ring fingers.  Hey, I'm not talking every dive
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>
> Get out of your quack-yard. Life is dangerous. So are cangarous.
Do you mean  Kaenguruh?

Janusz
mat.voss - 14 Mar 2008 20:05 GMT
>>>>>Over the years, I've had the odd event of numbness around my mouth and
>>>>>tingling in my pinkie and ring fingers.  Hey, I'm not talking every dive
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>
> Do you mean  Kaenguruh?

Kaenguruhs are daenguruhs.
Matthias
JOF - 14 Mar 2008 21:47 GMT
> janus...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
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>
> Kaenguruhs are daenguruhs.

Sounds like experts on pepper and death.

JF
Scott - 14 Mar 2008 22:32 GMT
> Kaenguruhs are daenguruhs.

Bastard.

I am putting another Logitech on your tab.
janusz_w@hotmail.com - 15 Mar 2008 09:12 GMT
> janus...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
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> Kaenguruhs are daenguruhs.
> Matthias

Gutt to know

Janusz
dechucka - 18 Mar 2008 23:25 GMT
> Get out of your quack-yard.

I'll DUCK that one

+Life is dangerous. So are cangarous.

Cangarous?
chilly - 16 Mar 2008 19:31 GMT
> > Similar with tiredness. In diving,it is mostly a micro bubble related
> > symptom, and should go away with normobaric 100% Oxygen breathing.
>
> breathing 100% oxygen is dangerous

dechucka . . with all this diving you've done . . do you or your dive boat
charter, not carry oxygen on board?
Dillon Pyron - 16 Mar 2008 20:12 GMT
[Default] Thus spake "dechucka" <dechucka@vomithotmail.com>:

>>> Over the years, I've had the odd event of numbness around my mouth and
>>> tingling in my pinkie and ring fingers.  Hey, I'm not talking every dive
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>
>breathing 100% oxygen is dangerous

Depends on how long.  Ten minutes?  Not a big deal.  Three hours?
Serious concerns.  Twenty-four hours?  You've probably stopped
breathing by then.
Tazz - 09 Mar 2008 02:15 GMT
> I'm sorry to report that on my most recent trip, I had another mild episode
> of skin bends.
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> little about at the time but now, and like I said, I'm trying not to get
> paranoid, but  . . ..

I had a tingling in my pinkie on my last dive. More specifically, the
outside edge on the tip of my finger.

Due to about 45 minutes in 30 degree(F) water. I didn't move my hands
enough to keep them warm.

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Dillon Pyron - 10 Mar 2008 05:31 GMT
[Default] Thus spake "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada>:

>I'm sorry to report that on my most recent trip, I had another mild episode
>of skin bends.
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>thought I should "man-up" and so I said nothing to anyone and went home for
>a laydown, figuring I was just getting long in the tooth.

Oooops.  Lots of studies in the past have indicated that extreme
exhaustion after a dive might be asymptomatic DCS.  Of course, if you
have a symptom, it can't be asymptomatic, but ...

>Over the years, I've had the odd event of numbness around my mouth and
>tingling in my pinkie and ring fingers.  Hey, I'm not talking every dive or
>even every tenth dive.  These are all very little things that I just thought
>little about at the time but now, and like I said, I'm trying not to get
>paranoid, but  . . ..

Yeah, I'm starting to question some of my practices.  Sometimes I'm a
little too casual in what I do.  Case in point, I do a lot of
photography.  Has there ever been a study of accidents to
photographers vs. the general diving population?
chilly - 10 Mar 2008 08:23 GMT
> [Default] Thus spake "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada>:
>
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> Oooops.  Lots of studies in the past have indicated that extreme
> exhaustion after a dive might be asymptomatic DCS.

Well, there ya go, my thoughts exactly.

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