Panpangato
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Hello forum members, I just wanted to share my recent experience with skin bends, which I did not know existed until now.
I recently went on a dive trip to Roatan. We had shallow dives for the most part 30~50 feet, always had surface intervals for about one hour, and always did the three minute safety stops. Out of the 17 dives, 14 were nitrox 32-33%. I was ok up until the last day when I very briefly hit 106 feet, it was probably only 5-10 seconds and still within the MOD. After that days dive, I noticed that my back would suddenly get very itchy, like ants were crawling all over my back. That itchy sensation only lasted a couple of seconds so at first I ignored it but I would experience the same thing after several hours and the next day as well. I also noticed that the skin on my back was mottled so I googled the symptoms and learned about skin bends. My skin cleared away within hours but I continued to have itchy back for 2 more days.
Im surprised that someone can still get decompression sickness even after following all safety protocols. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience and what one can do to prevent this. Diving more conservatively perhaps?
I recently went on a dive trip to Roatan. We had shallow dives for the most part 30~50 feet, always had surface intervals for about one hour, and always did the three minute safety stops. Out of the 17 dives, 14 were nitrox 32-33%. I was ok up until the last day when I very briefly hit 106 feet, it was probably only 5-10 seconds and still within the MOD. After that days dive, I noticed that my back would suddenly get very itchy, like ants were crawling all over my back. That itchy sensation only lasted a couple of seconds so at first I ignored it but I would experience the same thing after several hours and the next day as well. I also noticed that the skin on my back was mottled so I googled the symptoms and learned about skin bends. My skin cleared away within hours but I continued to have itchy back for 2 more days.
Im surprised that someone can still get decompression sickness even after following all safety protocols. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience and what one can do to prevent this. Diving more conservatively perhaps?