Diving and Exercise+

[divemistress]

does anyone know whether this article was based on studies/statistics/etc. regarding male divers only, or on both male and female divers?

curious and concerned at 42....

Tim Ingersoll once bubbled...
I read the DAN article about the risk of heart attack in divers over forty and being 38 I decided that an exercise program was in order.

 

[KyMermaidDivr]

cosists of RockClimbing outside during the summer and you get lots of aerobic exercise hiking with your gear to the climb sites. Since it's gotten colder, my climbing consists of indoor gym climbing and not as much, which I need to get back into gear. Right now, I'm climbing just once a weekat the gym and would like to be doing so twice a week. I was hoping our winter would be milder, so I could go the rock during the weekend, but the weather is not cooperating, so far. Hopefully, it's just temporary. HA! I don't ice dive nor ice climb.

 

[John C. Ratliff]

I don't know about the study, but my gut feeling is that normal diving is no worse than other types of exercise for producing a heart attack. However, there is a potential for a heart attack if one were to get "bad" air from a source that was contaminated with carbon monoxide. I know of one diving fatality that was related to this cause.

SeaRat