Beach dive planning thoughts.

[pasley]

Now, given that as beach divers we run the following DCI risk as a normal course of diving:
1. We wear dark rubber suits in the sun and walk quite a ways to get to the dive site. If there is a SI, we are often out in the open with no shade for that hour. Dehydration is always a risk.
2. We climb down and back up stairs (if we are luckily) or steep hillsides or cliffs to go diving. DocDeco has written about this and he recommends you don't even change tanks out for 1 hour after a dive, and avoiding strenuous exercise for 6 hours after a dive. Yeah, right, like we ever do that.
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I thought this quote from DOCDECO from another discussion was revelant here:

Hello headhunter:

Post dive Exercise

One must always remember that exercise and stable bubble formation are gas-load dependent. If one must make ascents up a steep hill, and you do not have a Sherpa for the day, then it is necessary to avoid big tissue nitrogen loads if you wish to avoid DCS.

Clearly, no one develops DCS in a gym from lifting weights. It is a combination of tissue supersaturation and exercise that are the culprits. Thus, if you perform a dive that remains at some distance from big tissue loads and you wait a while before the climb, you will be in a better position to avoid decompression problems post dive....QUOTE]
So, from what he says, it is better not to push the NDL if you have to climb up a hill or stairs after a dive (which was not the case in the dive we are discussing).

 

[ChrisM]

I thought this quote from DOCDECO from another discussion was revelant here:

Hello headhunter:

Post dive Exercise

One must always remember that exercise and stable bubble formation are gas-load dependent. If one must make ascents up a steep hill, and you do not have a Sherpa for the day, then it is necessary to avoid big tissue nitrogen loads if you wish to avoid DCS.

Clearly, no one develops DCS in a gym from lifting weights. It is a combination of tissue supersaturation and exercise that are the culprits. Thus, if you perform a dive that remains at some distance from big tissue loads and you wait a while before the climb, you will be in a better position to avoid decompression problems post dive....QUOTE]
So, from what he says, it is better not to push the NDL if you have to climb up a hill or stairs after a dive (which was not the case in the dive we are discussing).

Always knew there was a good reason not to dive Pt. Vicente.....

 

[headhunter]

I thought this quote from DOCDECO from another discussion was revelant here:

Hello headhunter:

Post dive Exercise

One must always remember that exercise and stable bubble formation are gas-load dependent. If one must make ascents up a steep hill, and you do not have a Sherpa for the day, then it is necessary to avoid big tissue nitrogen loads if you wish to avoid DCS.

Clearly, no one develops DCS in a gym from lifting weights. It is a combination of tissue supersaturation and exercise that are the culprits. Thus, if you perform a dive that remains at some distance from big tissue loads and you wait a while before the climb, you will be in a better position to avoid decompression problems post dive....QUOTE]
So, from what he says, it is better not to push the NDL if you have to climb up a hill or stairs after a dive (which was not the case in the dive we are discussing).

Here are some other great comments that Saturation just made in that other thread as well:

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?postid=775960#poststop

Christian