Bent in Fantasy Island Resort Roatan

[Scuba_John]

Just to add to equation, sodium, potassium and many of the other life sustaining minerals are not just found in the water you drink. Whilst in most of the foods that are processed the amount of these are lower they are still present. In the areas where diving tends to be the best you find foods that come right from "the farm" so to speak. Fruits and Veggies that don’t sit on a line to get to the table and are for the most part not enhanced for size or color. What am I saying? Don’t worry to much if you cant find a Gatorade, grab a nanner, mango, pineapple or some other local fruit and drink the local safe water. (Sky Juice)

And as RoatanMan said if you don't need to pee whilst diving your not drinking enough water. Lets not get into peeing in your wetsuit please

But back to the topic, Glad to hear that eveything will be ok. DAN is a good thing to have as well as many have suggested go find an O2 Course and dont be afraid to knock down the door to get help. Those can be paid for the loss of a partner can not.

 

[miesemer]

A friend of mine just returned from a week at FI (Oct 2 - 9) and a woman in his group also ended up bent. I was told the DM's and dive shop staff told her not to worry when she told them she wasn't feeling "right". Apparently it took some stern words to get them to react. I'm told she's doing well with her recovery. They assume she may have taken a minor hit from violently vomiting while underwater. They also mentioned that another women was bent the same week. I'm assuming that Sirto's wife was the one they were mentioning.

I'm leaving for FI on Oct 23, hopefully it will be an uneventful trip.

 

[DandyDon]

I called DAN and asked about RO water vs sports drinks and was told that there is no problem in hydrating with RO water. You are only losing electrolytes if you are sweating a lot such as while excercising (SP?) and that's where sports drink help.

Yes, well -that was a good idea. They're certainly a better source of informaiton than this cowboy - even tho' they're not always right. But maybe they are this time?

As far as the electrolyte and RO water concept- I would imagine that this would become an issue over a protracted duration (weeks, months) , otherwise simple over hydration will do the trick- with lots of water sloshing around inside, your body will pry loose what it needs from your internal storage areas. If you don't have to pee while diving, you aren't drinking enough.

Well, I have seen it much faster. Like Gaz said above, the bottled/bagged water in Belize is RevOss, as I believe it is in Cozumel, Roatan, etc. I saw a young Padi Instructor suffer the nausiating effects of heat exhaustion the first day of diving off of Ambergris Caye last June. We'd all been traveling the day before, riding in planes with virtually no atmosperhic moisture, drinking bottled (RevOss) water, drinking less than we should so we wouldn't have to stand in line for the potty, etc. Then we started sweating as soon as we got off the plane in Belize city; by the time we flew the puddle jumper to San Pedro and took the golf cart to the hotel, we were getting rank. So, we did what we do in such a situation - we changed shirts and met at the pool bar to celebrate being there. arty2: We were still sweating, but since it evaporates well with the sea breeze, most wouldn't notice.

She probaboy prespired more even in the morning that she does in her urban life back home. We'd all bought RevOss water for our rooms, but while I mixed up my own sport drink, she drank the bagged water, and she got ill. I've had heat exhaustion on the farm; it ain't fun at all!

Once she started drinking Gatorade, she was fine. But what if she'd been diving aggressively that first day, pushing her computer into the Yellow? With the dehydration of traveling and being in a tropical climate, plus a few happy hour drinks, and the reduced rehydration of RevOss water, it could have been a hit?!

Anyway, for increasing margins of safety, I'm going to keep forcing myself to drink sport drink before I get thirsty, and washing the pee outa' my wetsuit. :bogey: