Being Bent

[cdiver2]

Very intresting reading.
http://www.yorkshire-divers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=14644

 

[SeanQ]

What an amazing story. To be able to remain optimistic and even humourous about your condition is a sure sign of a determined and courageous individual. Great find cdiver2.

 

[cdiver2]

What an amazing story. To be able to remain optimistic and even humourous about your condition is a sure sign of a determined and courageous individual. Great find cdiver2.

Truly an amazing person. It is also amazing to be bent so bad with such a Conservative dive profile don't you think?,

 

[pilot fish]

Very intresting reading.
http://www.yorkshire-divers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=14644

I've printed this great article to read on the way to the office but I have one fast question: if he had been on nitrox would this have been averted?

 

[cdiver2]

I've printed this great article to read on the way to the office but I have one fast question: if he had been on nitrox would this have been averted?

I am not a egg head in anything but....all the egg heads have no answers as far as this one go's, It is so far out in left field. he Should not have got bent with that profile and the damage should not have been anywhere near as severe if he did get a mild bend. There have been people that have had a bad bend (deservedly so) but the consequences have not been this bad.
I suspect nitrogen (or air for that matter) may have been trapped somewhere for some other reason than the usual missing a decompression stop or coming up to fast. In that I mean health, some thing along the lines of a restriction in some very minor blood vessels.
But as they can not say why he got bent so severely I don't think they will ever know if nitrox would have made a difference.

 

[pilot fish]

I am not a egg head in anything but....all the egg heads have no answers as far as this one go's, It is so far out in left field. he Should not have got bent with that profile and the damage should not have been anywhere near as severe if he did get a mild bend. There have been people that have had a bad bend (deservedly so) but the consequences have not been this bad.
I suspect nitrogen (or air for that matter) may have been trapped somewhere for some other reason than the usual missing a decompression stop or coming up to fast. In that I mean health, some thing along the lines of a restriction in some very minor blood vessels.
But as they can not say why he got bent so severely I don't think they will ever know if nitrox would have made a difference.

I must tell you, that article got my attention. Thank you for posting it. I made a copy and sent it to a friend to read. It has made me more aware of some of my diving practices, going deeper on second dive etc, things that are pushing limts. It's essential for me to realize that what a 20 & 30 year can do, and get away with, somone in their 50s might not be able to do and get away with. When I was getting my AOW cert in Saba I asked a fellow diver, he was a doctor who taught at the Medical College there, if you stayed within the proscribed safety range could you get bent - he said say, that was possible. Very scary. That's one reason I wanted to get nitrox.

Wouldn't it seem reasonable to assume that with nitrox he would not have gotten a hit?

 

[cdiver2]

Wouldn't it seem reasonable to assume that with nitrox he would not have gotten a hit?

One would think so, but as I said this is so far out of the normal I would hate to give a definite yes or no.
There have been plenty of case's were divers have got bent when they have been well within there NDL. I don't know if this has happened with anyone on nitrox..anyone on the board know of a case?,

 

[pilot fish]

One would think so, but as I said this is so far out of the normal I would hate to give a definite yes or no.
There have been plenty of case's were divers have got bent when they have been well within there NDL. I don't know if this has happened with anyone on nitrox..anyone on the board know of a case?,

Although there is no statisical data proving nitrox is safer, I would case, in this intance, it would have to be safer. If you absorb less nitrogen, as with EAN 32 or EAN 36, it would stand to reason, I guess, that there would be less of a chance of getting a "hit" ?

 

[ShakaZulu]

Wow, that's why I'm a REC diver............

 

[RonFrank]

Very intresting reading.
http://www.yorkshire-divers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=14644

A good example of how very little all the *experts* understand the human body...

What a story.

Ron