deepsea21
Contributor
Nah... No one ever gets sick on Coz... it's an island... it's virtually insulated from sickness. 
Yeah, right. Until you catch it and then you hear, "Oh yeah, there's a bug going around and 1/2 the island has been sick with it". Basically it's a strain of acute viral bronchitis that seems to start in the chest and move to the head with a rapid fast incubation period. Regardless, if you catch it you'll be in store for a nasty producing cough, fever/chills/sweats, headaches and a bit of a stuffed up head that will last for about 6 days in my experience. You certainly won't be in any condition to dive with it.
If you do start feeling sick STAY OFF THE BOAT AND DON'T TAKE OTHERS DOWN WITH YOU! That's how I think I caught it... Someone on the boat beside me who was coughing a bit and I ran into him 2 days later when I was feeling bad and he was no longer diving but loading up on cold and cough medicine. I then quickly passed it on to my wife who came down with it about 36 hours later. Went to the Mega to buy some cough syrup the first day... went back 3 days later for some more as my wife was downing it too now and the entire shelf of cough syrups and expectorants was empty so we obviously weren't the only people buying it. We did hit one of the pharmacies and bought an Albuterol inhaler that helped open up the passages, stop the wheezing, and make coughs more productive (if you care to be your own doctor).
Anyway, steer clear of people you hear coughing. Once you've been sick with it, recovered and are tuned in you'll hear lots of people coughing with this bug everywhere and I'm guessing that is just at the onset before it takes them down for a few days.
Lost a total of 6 days of diving over a 2-week trip and returned to the states on X-mas day. Pretty sure it is still there and circulating.
Yes, we did pack some Covid test kits and it is not Covid.
Yeah, right. Until you catch it and then you hear, "Oh yeah, there's a bug going around and 1/2 the island has been sick with it". Basically it's a strain of acute viral bronchitis that seems to start in the chest and move to the head with a rapid fast incubation period. Regardless, if you catch it you'll be in store for a nasty producing cough, fever/chills/sweats, headaches and a bit of a stuffed up head that will last for about 6 days in my experience. You certainly won't be in any condition to dive with it. If you do start feeling sick STAY OFF THE BOAT AND DON'T TAKE OTHERS DOWN WITH YOU! That's how I think I caught it... Someone on the boat beside me who was coughing a bit and I ran into him 2 days later when I was feeling bad and he was no longer diving but loading up on cold and cough medicine. I then quickly passed it on to my wife who came down with it about 36 hours later. Went to the Mega to buy some cough syrup the first day... went back 3 days later for some more as my wife was downing it too now and the entire shelf of cough syrups and expectorants was empty so we obviously weren't the only people buying it. We did hit one of the pharmacies and bought an Albuterol inhaler that helped open up the passages, stop the wheezing, and make coughs more productive (if you care to be your own doctor).
Anyway, steer clear of people you hear coughing. Once you've been sick with it, recovered and are tuned in you'll hear lots of people coughing with this bug everywhere and I'm guessing that is just at the onset before it takes them down for a few days.
Lost a total of 6 days of diving over a 2-week trip and returned to the states on X-mas day. Pretty sure it is still there and circulating.
Yes, we did pack some Covid test kits and it is not Covid.
