dcs

Hi I’m a new diver who just finished up doing some of my first open water dives after being certified for open water. I took a trip to Roatán. After meeting the dive crew and an heavy night of drinking with them ( I didn’t know this increased dcs risk until after. Guides were drinking and it was...

Hi guys, I had DCS at the end of September this year and I went to the diving centre to do 2 hyperbaric sessions of 2.5hrs each. My experience of DCS has been shortness of breath and a tight and painful chest. The doctor said I had scarred tissue in the lungs. The doctor told me it was mild...

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Situation: Devil's Den is a dive site in Florida with a long set of stairs leading into the cavern, with a slightly submerged platform at the bottom (too deep to perform CPR). Several cenotes in Mexico have a similar setup. The question: if a diver ascends with signs/symptoms of DCI/DCS...

Hey everyone, I did a search around and couldn’t find any information about this. Looking at the DAN website it says: Does going in a bi-plane for 15 minutes with a max cruising altitude of 2500-3000ft without a pressurized cabin increase or decrease my chances for DCS? I’ll be doing...

Hello everyone, This is my first thread on Scubaboard (had been a lurker for a long time now), and I wanted to discuss a potential case of DCS during a relatively shallow technical dive. I am a 31-year-old beginner technical diver, with a total of about 200 dives since my certification; and I...

Hi all, First of all thanks in advance for taking the time to read this. I have searched everywhere for answers and am struggling at the moment, with my mental health taking a decline. CONTEXT I live in the United Kingdom / England and recently was diagnosed with DCS whilst on a trip in the...

When you breathe in air as you go deeper, nitrogen will dissolve and enter your body tissue. As you ascend, the nitrogen will leave your body tissue which you expel as you exhale. In the PADI online course and in some videos on YouTube, there is talk about excess nitrogen. 1. When does this...

Suppose you surfaced quickly from 30 meters (100 ft). Like some malfunction, out of air situation or something like that. What's the best thing to do next? Go directly to the chamber just in case? Or maybe it is better to go back underwater first to minimize DCS risk if it is still possible...

URGENT Hello friends! I had an issue last week that I could use some advice on. I apologize for the lack of brevity, but I suppose the details are important. It’s also import to tell you that I’m writing this because I’m scheduled to fly from the USA to Europe on Thursday and am wondering if...

Hello all! I've lurked on these boards for months. I'm a total novice. My mom used to forbid me from even LOOKING at scuba flyers because of my asthma. (FYI: If you've got no time for pleasantries, skip to the bold parts.) On my first day here, I didn't know what a regulator was. Or the...

Hi all, I’ve had a strange symptom a few times recently after dives, and am hoping someone here might have thoughts on this or heard of something similar before. After four dives within a month, after surfacing from a dive, the tissues of my arms feel bubbly/fizzy to touch, like my muscles had...

I've been waffling about posting this but talking with another tech diver who's also had a DCS episode, it seems like we generally don't talk about these things, so I'll just file this under "maybe the purpose in one's life is to serve as a warning to others." So this is basically the...

Hey everyone, thanks so much for reading this. I am really lost at what to do at this point, and appreciate any and all advice. I earned my PADI open water cert in late December, and had trouble equalizing throughout the week I was diving. On one dive in particular, my right ear wouldn't...

Hey Everyone: first let me say thanks, and that I appreciate the advice. I have been seeing medical professionals, and just wanted to seek some opinions on here, as this seems to be a rare-ish condition. After diving roughly 5 weeks ago, I noticed blurred distance vision in the airport while...

Azoth: O'Dive - The first connected sensor for personalised dives Lots to read, but in a nutshell it appears that the company is offering a Doppler sensor to be used after dives, data analysis being performed on a server and results returned to the user (too bad if you are in a remote location...

Hi all, I’m just wondering what the latest time is that anyone has heard of someone worsening from flying after a DCI hit, either treated or untreated. I’ve seen recommendations of no-fly times after treated DCS go as high as 6 weeks, but also seen people saying that after a week or two there’s...

Hello, I have a technical question regarding the mechanism through which Oxygen helps with DCS symptoms. I am aware that it is an effective treatment, but I'm not clear on what actually happens inside the body as the Oxygen is breathed to help dissolve gas bubbles in the tissues. What are the...

Hello! Apologies for the long thread...but need some input I am currently getting my open water cert and on Nov 23 I completed 3 dives off the coast of California. The dives were 33 ft (39 mins), 27 ft (29 mins), and 35 ft (33 mins). A bit of history on me... I had a labrum shoulder surgery on...