Deco beer?

[scubadada]

Are you talking about the typos?

I can make typos under any conditions. If I could type, I would be 3 years younger by now.

Ha

 

[tarponchik]

I'm wondering how you keep the beer from flooding with sea water as the bottle empties? I'd like to see a video of that!

A better question would be, how they keep beer from floating out of the bottle to the surface? Beer has lower density than sea water. Unless they kept the bottles upside down, of course.

 

[jonhall]

900 would have a single alcoholic beverage shortly after surfacing.

My dive buddy fits in the category of "more than a single alcoholic beverage."

In my experience, by the time any or all of the following occur: boat gets back to shore, walk back to dive shop, rinse & stow gear, walk/ride back to room, etc., 20-60 minutes have passed and the first alcoholic beverage depends on if there is a bar by the dive op or if we have to wait until getting back to the room.

is this generally accepted as within safe behavior?

Haven't seen anyone get scientific on this, so I'm thinking BAC, blood alcohol content, is the only concern for safe behavior after diving and that is only when you reach a level that affects you. Weighing 220ish I supposedly can drink a 12 oz beer (or a shot of liquor) which puts my BAC at .02. Being a slow drinker of that beer, my BAC is will be less and after an hour, it's back to 0. On top of that beer is a fat free drink! Although I didn't listen to the report on the news, last week it was reported that beer may actually be good for you.

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.

Future PADI course?!

 

[scubadada]

..Future PADI course?!

Distinctive Specialty

 

[Marie13]

Don't drink much. Will occasionally hit a Mexican restaurant after the quarry with friends. They might have a beer or margarita. My preferred poison is Coke (or Pepsi, in a pinch). I have too far to drive after diving at the quarry (1.5-2 hours) to drink, anyway.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I m going to guess that this post that was made a minute after this one in another thread was actually intended for this thread: Mass confusion about computers????

It simply points out that although dehydration is often mentioned as a leading factor in DCS, there is no research supporting that belief.

Oh boy! Here we go....

 

[gcarter]

The group of divers I am generally with pretty much always follow the diving with a glass of liquid decompression and a bite at a local pub. Barking Squirrel is our somewhat official off gassing beer.

 

[clownfishsydney]

In some parts of the Philippines most of the day boats will carry beer for the (normally) long trip back to shore. I have also had some beers on a slow boat in Papua New Guinea as we cruised back to our resort. Very relaxing.

On special occasions I have been known to have a beer after a dive from my boat instead of our normal morning tea. One of our buddies has rum in his coffee every trip.

We spent last week diving Jervis Bay south of Sydney using our own boats (three from our club). Beers certainly did not come out till after we had washed and refueled the boats, washed our gear and got everything ready for the next day's diving. I think some of the best beers I have ever had have been after a full day's diving.

 

[Diver0001]

Haven't seen anyone get scientific on this, so I'm thinking BAC, blood alcohol content, is the only concern for safe behavior after diving and that is only when you reach a level that affects you.

Neal Pollack has mentioned in lectures that drinking light beer after a dive is, in his opinion, ok with all of the usual disclaimers about controlling yourself etc. The reason he gives is that light beer is apparently a decent re-hydrating agent. Since he's one of the people I listen to about all things deco related I remembered this. Also since he's Canadian and not American he knows that light beer doesn't need to taste like watered down butterfly piss so I'm going to side with having a light beer being at least not a bad idea and probably not as gross as it sounds.

Personally I would never drink alcohol of any kind between dives but after the day is done and we've had our evening meal I've been known to indulge.

Anecdotally I know someone who got bent after a dive, and after drinking a beer (maybe two?) and he attributes the bend to the beer. I'm not sure if that was proven or not but I'm pretty sure he would tell you not to do it.

R..

 

[boulderjohn]

Anecdotally I know someone who got bent after a dive, and after drinking a beer (maybe two?) and he attributes the bend to the beer. I'm not sure if that was proven or not but I'm pretty sure he would tell you not to do it.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.