Flying after diving

[TexasKaren68]

It sounds to me more like making macho out of a molehill. Unless he was diagnosed by relief of symptoms at depth, he was not properly diagnosed with DCS. No competent Hyperbaric Physician would diagnose DCS over the phone, if fact no competent physician of any specialty would do so ... they'd have insisted that he travel to the nearest chamber. BTW, with an untreated bends case in his jacket he should not be diving at all, ever again.

Well, based on the story, relief of symptoms happened at ground level after being probably 35,000 feet up for a while, where the numbness occurred. The problem never came back. I don't think the doctor exactly "diagnosed" the problem, it was a conversation between friends and I'm sure some details got left out when my instructor told the story. The conversation probably went something like "hey, this is what happened - I think it was DCS" and the answer was probably "yeah, sure sounds like it, you feel OK now?" I would guess my instructor's had hundreds if not thousands of dives since this happened.