Just spoke with DAN medical. Just a follow up in information from previous posts... it's the 6th rib on left side. It's a non displaced fracture and besides the expected soft tissue inflammation. And with my profession, that is my support of knowing that this isn't an issue of increased pressure or what not being exerted on the lungs (or ribs for that matter) as the pressure is equalized causing no difference as it would be at 1 atm. So DAN stated that besides discomfort caused with the BCD and gear there isn't any adverse issue I need to be concerned about. And DCS is not an issue. He mentioned the most discomfort would most likely come from donning and doffing gear (though that seems to be more subjective). I have geared up and I have twisted turned climbed stairs and layed down and stood up with all gear on. Not saying there isn't any discomfort but nothing outstanding that hasn't been outside of my daily routines. Like mentioned from my profile, I'm in Health care (Respiratory Therapy Supervisor) and in the past week I have transported vents (couple hundred pounds) while pushing stretchers, performed at least 3 rounds of chest compressions on 4 separate occasions, and moved a 500 lb piano (not the norm but I had to do it). The discomfort is just that. If I was dealing with a fracture on the floating rib or 11 rib, this would be a different story (I have fractured those twice during weightlifting days). Discomfort/movement with those ribs is much more acute and severely limits range of motion. It's a point worth taking as far as bringing up my family and my dive buddy but comparing myself (being physically/ athletically active year round with a great bill of health) compared to some other divers I have seen on boats (morbidly obese who rely on a dive buddy on the boat to help them donn and doff their own gear, struggle to bend over to fin up and look to me to be a heart beat away from a massive MI, or the a$$ hat who is hungover ready to dive (that was me at one point but no more... and I refer to myself as also being an a$$ hat in that circumstance because I was), I feel I am much more equipped to being a safe diver and a dive buddy. It's not my ideal diving but by no means do I feel I will be placing myself or my family/dive buddy in danger and knowing, thanks to DAN medical, that there isn't any contraindications to diving (specifically) and the assumptions that myself and others have voiced in this thread involving pressure causing pneumos and DCS is all here-say. I will take the dives moment by moment and assess my capabilities and tolerance as I go. I'll post a reply in regards to how this diving goes having this form of injury. Lets just say I will be postponing the 130ft wreck dive for later in the week, if at all. Maybe not just for the injury reason but I might rather have a 70 minute dive at 40ft than an 8 minute dive on a wreck... If my tone sounds aggressive, it isn't intended.