Deco beer?

[northernone]

If I've seen 1000 diver's post dive routines, 900 would have a single alcoholic beverage shortly after surfacing. Higher percentage even among guys using multiple cylinders, or crawling in holes.

Am I drifting into backwaters with alcoholics, or is this generally accepted as within safe behavior? ...Or another explanation.

Regards,
Cameron

 

[AdivingBel]

Not sure...do they buy rounds?? If so, divin' alkies are great!

 

[Akimbo]

I can't cite any studies but I have met more than my share of functional alcoholics in the diving profession at all levels. Hard working, drinking, and playing I suppose. I always counted myself as fortunate that I lose my taste for wine after a few glasses and never enjoyed hard liquor or carbonated beverages, alcoholic or not.

 

[flyboy08]

I celebrate my post dives with good to great tequila.....not before

 

[scubadada]

If I've seen 1000 diver's post dive routines, 900 would have a single alcoholic beverage shortly after surfacing. Higher percentage even among guys using multiple cylinders, or crawling in holes.

Am I drifting into backwaters with alcoholics, or is this generally accepted as within safe behavior? ...Or another explanation.

Regards,
Cameron

What's your point?

 

[northernone]

What's your point?

Wondering if this is some sort of localized (Americas and a few islands) normalized deviance or generally accepted as within safe behavior.

 

[scubadada]

Wondering if this is some sort of localized (Americas and a few islands) normalized deviance or generally accepted as within safe behavior.

Not sure where you have had this experience, unusual in mine, you have to be careful when you generalize

 

[northernone]

Not sure where you have had this experience, unusual in mine, you have to be careful when you generalize

Exactly the point of this thread.

My experience is pretty limited as I'm often solo and only began traveling further afield for diving in recent years. USA 7 states, Canada 5 provinces and 9 countries so far.

Think this might be better discussion if I include a poll?

 

[DiverDownD3]

As long as people aren't drinking before diving or during the surface intervals and they wait at the end of the day, what difference does it make?

 

[boulderjohn]

Some time ago someone asked how long you had to wait after diving before having a drink. Steve Lewis (Doppler) replied that a properly trained DM could hand you a bourbon as you ascended the ladder.

The earliest I have started drinking after a dive was during the dive. On a dive in San Carlos, MX, I was the only one on the boat not part of a dive group traveling from Arizona. It was their last dive. As we surfaced at the end of the dive, the boat crew handed down the beer bottles. We each took one, descended to about safety stop depth, and drank them there. It's a little bit of a trick, but very doable.

As for my normal practices, I wait until I am home and the gear has been put away.