Do you carry a tourniquet when diving?

[wlecyt40]

When I took the rescue diver course, I found it stupid, exceptionally fracking stupid, that there was an expectation that one would have a CPR mask on them while diving to do rescue breathing while towing a body subject back to shore or boat.

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On the range, I'm paring back from a great big, well, medium, industrial first aid kit* to a small box w/ a couple of CAT tourniquets, a couple of Israeli bandages, a pair of compact chest seals, some quick-clot type gauze for packing, gloves, and the phone number to the radio room and the nearest Level 1 trauma center (12 miles distant).

*I am gonna forgo the aspirin, antacids, and bandaids I've been toting in that kit; if someone has a boo-boo or a headache, they can schlep their happy ass up to the range house for those kinds of things.

Right?

 

[Thunder Struck]

I've heard of more cases of diver dying due to heart attack while underwater than I have of bleeding out while underwater.

Yanno.... They have heated vests and such for dry suits, why not have an AED that can be wired up in a similar fashion.

 

[Waterwulf]

Yanno.... They have heated vests and such for dry suits, why not have an AED that can be wired up in a similar fashion.

Maybe because if you have those kinds of medical issues, you should not be diving in the first place? Besides, I really don't think I'd want to be anywhere close by somebody wearing one of those things if it went off, especially in salt water. (It's an electrolyte)

ZZZZZT. AAAHHH George! Your danged AED vest shorted out again. George? Are you still conscious? ZZZTT AAAHHH Somebody find the off switch on that ZZZZT AAAHHH vest! I told him after the last time ZZZT AAAAHHHH not to wear that danged thing again. ZZZZT AAAHHH

 

[Thunder Struck]

Maybe because if you have those kinds of medical issues, you should not be diving in the first place? Besides, I really don't think I'd want to be anywhere close by somebody wearing one of those things if it went off, especially in salt water. (It's an electrolyte)

ZZZZZT. AAAHHH George! Your danged AED vest shorted out again. George? Are you still conscious? ZZZTT AAAHHH Somebody find the off switch on that ZZZZT AAAHHH vest! I told him after the last time ZZZT AAAAHHHH not to wear that danged thing again. ZZZZT AAAHHH

Was meant as a joke but could see the twisted humor in such a device. Reminds me of someone relating a story of having been shocked by their own Shark Shield.

 

[Waterwulf]

I have to admit that I was cracking up as I was writing it because of an incident that happened On Duty. The test with the new Riot Control Stun Shield did not go as planned. One of our people ended up laying on top of the Stun Shield which was locked in the On position. He laid on top of it, jerking and switching and making little squeaking noises and grunts and whistles for about three minutes until we got him loose. He walked with a twitch afterwards and would sometimes just burst into tears. I know I'll pay for it one day but that was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. The Shorting out AED Self Contained Dive Vest zapping all those around it was just to good to pass up. I meant no offense.