Thank you Denny for sharing your incident. I know telling it publicly can be very difficult. You are one of my closest dive buddies. I am so grateful that everything turned out ok. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
The body is a difficult thing to predict. So often the incidents we experience while scuba diving are difficult to diagnose to a perfect root cause. You can be perfectly fine on one dive, do the same dive again and your body can react differently. Although the experts may not be able to tell you what was the triggering event or root cause, I would recommend you reach out to the contact mentioned above (Richard Moon at Duke University) to see if he has any insight. Everything I have read has stated that there is no clear indicator of what causes an IPE.
Whenever you are ready to get back in the water, let me know. I would be happy to be by your side on that dive.
The body is a difficult thing to predict. So often the incidents we experience while scuba diving are difficult to diagnose to a perfect root cause. You can be perfectly fine on one dive, do the same dive again and your body can react differently. Although the experts may not be able to tell you what was the triggering event or root cause, I would recommend you reach out to the contact mentioned above (Richard Moon at Duke University) to see if he has any insight. Everything I have read has stated that there is no clear indicator of what causes an IPE.
Whenever you are ready to get back in the water, let me know. I would be happy to be by your side on that dive.