DCS in Cozumel

[Christi]

Think of it this way. Your tissues absorb a lot of gasses when you dive and there is still a lot in there after your dive. Normally, if you've followed the rules, those gassses are released slowly over the next xx-24 hours. Just don't do anything that causes them to be released too fast. Like exposing yourself to lower ambient pressure (i.e. flying, driving up a mountain). Or increasing blood flow (i.e. hot shower, massage, vigorous exercise). So in addition to delaying the hot shower for a few hours, you should also delay your gym workout or 5 mile run. For once, life wants you to take it easy and relax.

PERFECT explanation! Hi Todd! Merry Christmas - enjoy the snowflakes in Houston!

 

[MargaritaMike]

For once, life wants you to take it easy and relax.

Darn! I was planning to run a marathon after my dive. (Yeah, right!) It makes perfect sense. I don't think I have ever really been in a situation to take a hot shower or get in a hot tub. Guess I've been lucky. Now I'm paranoid. Because I'm old, overweight, and have had multiple (7) surgeries on my spine, I should have gotten bent long ago. Diving on borrowed time. I've got to be very conservative going forward.
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Cheers - M²

 

[ggunn]

The hot shower/hot tub phenomenon is due to gas/liquid solubility. Most people know intuitively that increasing the temperature of a liquid increases the amount of a solid that can be dissolved in it, but many don't realize that the solubility of a gas in a liquid works in the opposite way; it decreases rather than increases with elevated temperature. Heat drives dissolved gas out of a liquid, i.e., it makes bubbles.