HI Guys
thanks for the concern .
i dive on a regular basis , and am in a community of divers so i personally know 3 divers who have been bent , 2 of those divers were diving quite conservative tables and no deco dives. .
when i think back to the profile of the day when i got bent i can see a number of factors that contributed. and when i list them it seems pretty scary
i m just gonna honestly relate what happened .
1. reverse profile , dive 1 17m ... dive 2 37m
2. dehydration , i did not really drink much water the morning of the dive , a coffie with brekky , and a can of diet soda between dives .
3. and the thing that i think was the main contributing factor , when i got to the bottom on the 2nd dive , there was current so i worked hard swiming at depth, i really felt like i was doing it hard , sucked through a fair bit of air during the 12mins i was on the bottom , therefore taking on a lot of Nitrogen.
what i did do
dive 1 nitrox 28%
dive 2 nitrox 26%
1st dive well within NDL
2nd dive 3mins within NDL
4 min safety stop on 1st dive
on 2nd dive
1 min at half my max depth
2 mins at 12 m
1 min at 9 m
5 mins at 5 m
when i surfaced from 2nd dive i felt like i had worked hard during the dive ,
shoulder felt funny/ itchy with 10 mins of the 2nd dive . and later when i looked noted a red mottled apearence , and soreness later on in joint.
what i will do if i am passed for diving again .
dive on nitrox , on Air tables
get a Pee valve in my dry suit and a Fly in my wetsuit
and drink at least 1litre of water the morning before i go diving .
be prepared to abort the dive if current is strong and im working hard
dive shallower
at the chamber the staff were great , they took it all in their stride , , gotta say its not much fun being in a metal POT for 5 hrs .but i felt much better after recompression , i could feel my arm getting better as i went deeper , hey this hypobaric medicine really works.
on the 2nd day of re compression i shared the chamber with 7 ! others , cancer patients, mouth surgery patients , and other assorted recovering patients , DCS is not the major user of the chamber
Regards
Matty