Drinking & Diving

[Sas]

You might consider that, to most appearances, you seem to have a drinking problem.

For men I believe the recommendation in Australia is no more than four standard drinks a day with 1-2 alcohol free days a week.

So if someone is having one drink a day most days of the week, the 24 hour rule would stop them diving even with healthy limits of drinking.

I used to have a beer after work every night with dinner (because it tastes nice) and then on Friday nights have about six standard drinks (to get a little bit pissed as being a little bit drunk is fun). When I started on a health kick I just stopped drinking most of the time because I consider it wasted calories. It wasn't difficult at all so I would have hardly considered my previous levels of drinking to be problematic.

 

[Tanked]

You might consider that, to most appearances, you seem to have a drinking problem.

I was only half serious. When I dive off Jersey, I usually abstain the night before and get a good nights rest.

 

[Bubbletrubble]

The question is what is the length of time after a drink that you must wait until the risk of DCS is the same as it would have been had you not had the drink?

I don't know if DCS risk is the only parameter one should consider.
A more difficult question to answer is how much of a drop in cognition/clear-headedness or delay in reaction time -- well-known effects of alcohol in non-divers -- is a diver willing to risk on a dive.
It seems to me that there are a lot of unknowns in the have-a-beer-then-dive risk equation.

 

[Tanked]

For men I believe the recommendation in Australia is no more than four standard drinks a day with 1-2 alcohol free days a week.

Well hell if that's the case I definatly don't have a drinking problem!

 

[eponym]

An interesting thread.

I remember an essay by Anton Chekhov (noted Russian playwright) about drink. IIRC from my university days in the late sixties, he said the man who is drunk at night is not sober at morning. Rather, he is still suffering from the effects of his inebriation, and is therefore at no time completely himself. Mind you, Chekhov was espousing an abstention policy.

Of course Russia is legendary on this subject. In Lenin's Tomb, David Remnick introduces a character by saying (I paraphrase from memory) "the General had a reputation as a drunk. I don't think I can communicate to you how hard you have to work at it in Russia to be known as a drunk."

-Bryan

 

[Sas]

Well hell if that's the case I definatly don't have a drinking problem!

I am honestly surprised at the seriousness with which people on this thread are taking drinking a beer or two.

But then I live in Australia where we actually have proper beer. I probably wouldn't drink half as much if I had to drink the rubbish they have in the USA

 

[Tanked]

I am honestly surprised at the seriousness with which people on this thread are taking drinking a beer or two.

But then I live in Australia where we actually have proper beer. I probably wouldn't drink half as much if I had to drink the rubbish they have in the USA

Saspotato please please please tell me you're not referring to Fosters!:

 

[Sas]

Saspotato please please please tell me you're not referring to Fosters!:

Oh god no. No one, literally no one, drinks Fosters in Australia. It all gets sent overseas because it's so rubbish.

 

[eponym]

I am honestly surprised at the seriousness with which people on this thread are taking drinking a beer or two. But then I live in Australia where we actually have proper beer. I probably wouldn't drink half as much if I had to drink the rubbish they have in the USA

I grew up in Europe and now live in the USA. I've spent time on every continent (including Antarctica). My time in Australia convinced me that, among their other good qualities, Australians are the least-conflicted people I've met when it comes to drinking.

Good on ya,
Bryan

 

[Tanked]

Oh god no. No one, literally no one, drinks Fosters in Australia. It all gets sent overseas because it's so rubbish.

Can we send it back?
For the most part I stick to Guinness, and occasionaly Yeungling.