Eating after a deco dive

[Michael Guerrero]

Yeah, blood flow was the first thing that popped into my head. Another concern could be what you eat (fried and high saturated fat foods) and their negative affect on blood flow (sludging). You off-gas for hours after a dive, and you want good perfusion to do so efficiently. Same if you do repetitive dives. What you eat can affect that.

 

[GrimSleeper]

Hi Everyone

Just wondered on your thourghts of eating after a deco dive? do you eat straight after a deco dive? my thourghts are due to the stomach contractinng to start digestion.



DECLAN LONG

For changes in blood flow due to digestion to bend you, your deco would have to be woefully inadequate in the first place. For eating to be a problem, I suspect you'd have to be so close to clinically bent that getting on the boat, taking off your kit, or lifting a bottle of water to your mouth would push you over the edge and into the chamber long before you got round to eating.

You realise that it's not unknown for people to eat DURING decompression on big dives? Keeps your blood sugar up and, frankly, helps alleviate the boredom. Only problem I've noticed with it is that the bananas get salty...

 

[DogDiver]

I like grapes and squeeze juices during deco.


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[Centrals]

Hi Everyone

Just wondered on your thourghts of eating after a deco dive? do you eat straight after a deco dive? my thourghts are due to the stomach contractinng to start digestion.
DECLAN LONG

For your information, some divers even drink/eat during deco in a habitat!!!!!!
The only time that you don't eat after a deco dive is that you are a Muslim during Ramadan and the dive finished before sun set!!

I hope the next question has nothing to do with SEX!!!!

 

[Corleone]

I have watched a lot of videos of diving team either doing a deep dives or exploring..

the common thing among all of them after they surface is that, someone will rush a drink to the diver. whether that is water? cold or hot drink remains unknown to me. what is proven is that they take something. take a look at this video...

this is a cave explorating that lasted around 7 hour and 40 min, to the depth of 190 m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvTvsyXG0T8

at 7:28 min, he is drinking while on deco

at 7:58, as soon as he surfaced, still in his drysuit, he is eating.

 

[Lorenzoid]

And why "deco dive" rather than ANY dive? As they say, every dive is a deco dive. Does the OP really mean just to refer to dives that are hours long?

 

[tech_diver]

8 years posting on SB and just got my first deleted post! It was bound to happen sooner or later. Given that I'm a generally inappropriate person, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

ok, ok, a real response to the OP with no references to sex, flatulence or Ron Jeremy.


I have on occasion eaten on a deco stop. I've been diving in mountain lakes that are cleaner and fresher than municipal tap water. As long as the food item can tolerate being underwater (apple, powerbar, etc.), eating isn't that hard to do. I wouldn't hesitate to eat after a deco dive.

Disclaimer:
Of course, without large scale chamber test dives, it's only an anecdote. We're still struggling to determine how significant reverse profiles figure in DCS after years of fearing them. A vast study is really the only way to determine what factors impact the occurrence of DCS the most.

The question may have some roots in the story that one should not swim 30 minutes after eating, which I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) has been proven to be a myth.

 

[GrimSleeper]

8 years posting on SB and just got my first deleted post! It was bound to happen sooner or later. Given that I'm a generally inappropriate person, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

ok, ok, a real response to the OP with no references to sex, flatulence or Ron Jeremy.

I so want to know what you originally posted and how you managed to link in a famously ugly Seventies porn star...

 

[Michael Guerrero]

The question may have some roots in the story that one should not swim 30 minutes after eating, which I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) has been proven to be a myth.

As a former swimmer, I've not only eaten right before practice, I've even eaten between laps. Not once did I encounter a problem.