ajduplessis
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Yes we dive VPM-B +2 OC.
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I attended the 2008 Deep Stop conference. During that event one of the training agencies stood up in support of deep stops and made a similar claim -- no hits, hundreds of technical dives, and "what works works" kind of thing. It was rather humorous that someone at the event had participated in treating (or was involved somehow) with a diver who actually had a very bad DCS event with that agency. The response of the agency was "Well, we don't know if they don't report it back to us."
I attended the 2008 Deep Stop conference. During that event one of the training agencies stood up in support of deep stops and made a similar claim -- no hits, hundreds of technical dives, and "what works works" kind of thing. It was rather humorous that someone at the event had participated in treating (or was involved somehow) with a diver who actually had a very bad DCS event with that agency. The response of the agency was "Well, we don't know if they don't report it back to us."
Now all of my description is from memory (which can be faulty) so the quotes aren't quotes, but the basic lesson is there. How do you know there were no hits? Were you following up for hours after each of hundreds of dives? Who was evaluating claims of shoulder pain, or a rash, or the precaution of breathing O2 on the surface, or ..., to determine if a DCS event occurred? How do you know not one of these hundreds of divers had a serious hit 12 hours following a dive, but you never heard?
These types of claims are exceedingly difficult to accept if for no other reason than we've heard them before and they wither under scrutiny, if indeed you can get enough solid information to actually scrutinize it.
Let me ask you this. Those that wake up 12 hours later with a shoulder niggle, how do you know the niggle is not related to sleeping on that shoulder, or workload related while unloading the boat earlier in the day?