Do you carry a tourniquet when diving?

[Waterwulf]

Can't travel now, record it on yourself and post it here.

Nah, you won't get the full effects that way and it wouldn't be nearly as much fun!

 

[leavenotrace]

I guess I did not elaborate enough. This thread went from having a tourniquet in the first place to applying it underwater. I find it hard to imagine what would warrant such an action.
By all means have it topside, but all this have it at all times on you is over the top.

You like sound of your voice, don't you?
What do you know, minimum target width for a tourniquet is 1.5 inches.......the same width of webbing my jon line is made out of. But you just made an assumption of what I use as a jon line.
Do you carry de-fib on your dive? I mean, it's recommended by science as best thing to get your heart pumping again if it stops.
Look what I said above.

The college likes it enough they pay me to lecture students, I like it enough I bought a bull horn in college. The state likes what I say enough to keep me as instructor cadre as well.

I carry my Zoll around, yes. I also carry a tourniquet as I'm 30% more likely to use it to save a life out of hospital.

The defibrillator is useful in some stopped heart scenarios but not all of them; it's science. I use the EKG to determine what comes next - the lightning or the drugs.

I teach this material on a monthly if not more frequent basis. Are you paid for your thoughts opinions and experiences in tourniquet use in austere scenarios?

 

[admikar]

I also carry a tourniquet as I'm 30% more likely to use it to save a life out of hospital.

How many times you used it underwater?
Why the f* are you all making this as "it's never to be used" statement?
I've heard of more cases of diver dying due to heart attack while underwater than I have of bleeding out while underwater.
By all means, carry one with you, but where do you draw a line? How likely something has to be for you to consider taking another item with you? In diving, not the general life as you tried to make the case above.