Some good posts in this thread to date.
Today I was diving and doing my best to stress a new Master Diver candidate in a controlled fashion. We got deep, dark, and cold (42 F at 90 feet) in very low viz, repeatedly.
On one of our surface intervals, after we talked about how the narcosis tests went, she asked about narcosis mechanisms. As we talked, it became clear to me that the emotional component of narcosis is perhaps its defining qualtiy.
I've been happy narked (careless) and very dark narked (knowing I'm going to die right now). If I had to describe narcosis in one sentence (as I will next week) I would now say that . . .
Nitrogen Narcosis dulls the higher rational faculties of your mind and heightens your current emotional state, often to the extent that emotion dominates over rational thinking.
-Bryan
Today I was diving and doing my best to stress a new Master Diver candidate in a controlled fashion. We got deep, dark, and cold (42 F at 90 feet) in very low viz, repeatedly.
On one of our surface intervals, after we talked about how the narcosis tests went, she asked about narcosis mechanisms. As we talked, it became clear to me that the emotional component of narcosis is perhaps its defining qualtiy.
I've been happy narked (careless) and very dark narked (knowing I'm going to die right now). If I had to describe narcosis in one sentence (as I will next week) I would now say that . . .
Nitrogen Narcosis dulls the higher rational faculties of your mind and heightens your current emotional state, often to the extent that emotion dominates over rational thinking.
-Bryan
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