Fellow Divers...I need some help.

[WC46]

I am taking the SSI Dive Control Specialist Course. I have to give a 15 minute lecture on Hypothermia & Hyperthermia. Dive related of course. I need some good lecture material. Can anyone help me?

 

[Doc Intrepid]

I am taking the SSI Dive Control Specialist Course. I have to give a 15 minute lecture on Hypothermia & Hyperthermia. Dive related of course. I need some good lecture material. Can anyone help me?

Not to get dickish, but dude....

Google 'DAN', 'hypothermia', and 'hyperthermia' for starters.

The DAN website alone will keep you talking for 15 minutes:
http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/Google/search.asp

Also check out Gene Hobbs' website - it will have the latest research papers all cited and summarized. Gene is on this board, search for his name, PM him if you have questions regarding specific citations or researchers. Rubicon:
http://rubicon-foundation.org/

Finally, if you want anecdotal accounts, perform a number of searches on this board - there are over six years worth of threads on these topics in the archives.

Search button is the forth one over from the right, in the button bar right beneath where it says "Welcome, WC46" in the upper right hand corner of your screen. click on Search, then on Advanced Search, then enter your topic(s).

Best,

Doc

 

[DiverBizz]

What Doc said.

 

[PacificNWdiver]

I know that if i was listening i would be interested in a comparison of the amount of time at different water temps that an average person could expect to run into difficulty without an exposure suit, 3mm exposure suit, 5mm etc.

Good luck

 

[WC46]

Thanks for the tip.

 

[bfw]

I am taking the SSI Dive Control Specialist Course. I have to give a 15 minute lecture on Hypothermia & Hyperthermia. Dive related of course. I need some good lecture material. Can anyone help me?

So this is your idea of research, going online and asking a bunch of strangers with odd names, about whom you know nothing, to spoon feed you the material? At least the college students who buy term papers online can verify the credentials of their ghost writers.

Whose getting the dive con cert, you or us? Whatever happened to the days when students did their own homework?

 

[don Francisco]

Since it's supposed to be diving related, you might narrow the field by searching "cold water hypothermia"

Hyperthermia, is less of a problem for divers, so besides hyperthermia, try searching "heat stroke" or "heat exhaustion". Ypu should find lots of info about excercise and hyperthermai, and pick a niche for yoyr presentation.

Good luck
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[bamamedic]

One thing that might deserve some mention, is that hyperthermia can be an issue when the weather is hot, and students are fully geared up and waiting to get into the water. That 5mm suit, which might be perfect in the water, is going to get really hot while sitting around on the surface.

 

[princessaprilia]

Okay Mr. Crankypantses, lighten up.

I think it is perfectly valid to ask a dive board about dive questions. This community is filled with all sorts of people, we have doctors, engineers, marine biologists, and laser hair technicians. If WC received an answer from one of the marine biologists who said, "Check this site, my research partner wrote an article that might help you", I think that would be worth more than a random Google search. The tip about Gene Hobbs was probably worth the snotty attitudes.

I'm sure WC already did the google search, but was thinking that we are all super-smart, and wonderfully helpful, so was getting our opinion.

By the way, I've got no good answers for you WC, sorry... ask me a laser question.

 

[Garrobo]

Talk slowly.