TracyN
Contributor
I had an interesting occurrence the other day on a dive that puzzled me. It was a very long cave dive that had a pretty drastic saw tooth profile. The dive started out averaging about 60 ft of depth and then we dropped to around 100 ft. We then went up to about 50 ft, dropped to around 70ft and then up to about 40ft where we again dropped down to 107 ft, and finally leveled off at about 30-40 ft. When we started the shallow portion of the dive we had accumulated a good amount of deco and by the time we made our way back to the deep portion of the dive we had blown off most of our initial deco and only had 10ft stops showing.
When we got back to the 50 ft level and picked up our stage bottles I noticed that the back of my right hand was burning and stinging like it was on fire. I looked and didn't see anything but when we ascended back down to depth the burning instantly stopped. The rest of the dive was uneventful and no other symptoms occurred upon surfacing.
Is it possible that I had the start of a mild skin bend that resolved itself once I went back down to depth? The event happened at about 136:40 min into the dive.
Also on an unrelated note a couple hours after the dive on the previous day when I took a shower I noticed an intense itching and redness to the back of my right arm. I thought I might have gotten bit but there was no bite mark and it too resolved itself after about a half hour.
When we got back to the 50 ft level and picked up our stage bottles I noticed that the back of my right hand was burning and stinging like it was on fire. I looked and didn't see anything but when we ascended back down to depth the burning instantly stopped. The rest of the dive was uneventful and no other symptoms occurred upon surfacing.
Is it possible that I had the start of a mild skin bend that resolved itself once I went back down to depth? The event happened at about 136:40 min into the dive.
Also on an unrelated note a couple hours after the dive on the previous day when I took a shower I noticed an intense itching and redness to the back of my right arm. I thought I might have gotten bit but there was no bite mark and it too resolved itself after about a half hour.