There are several important issues to think about re COVID-19 and resuming diving. For example:
1. How does the virus behave in a high-humidity marine or freshwater environment? Is the virus more readily transferred from one diver to another (say, when the divers are suiting up on deck, or lounging in the cabin, or using the head)? Is it more likely to be transferred from an infected piece of equipment to another (i.e., someone else's) piece of equipment--for example, when one 2nd stage brushes/rests either against someone else's 2nd stage or on an infected desk or bench, or uses the same rinse bucket?
2. How does the virus behave in a high PP and/or high PPO2 environment--you know, when you're scuba diving at depth? So, if you are infected (but perhaps asymptomatic), does diving exacerbate/intensify the effects of the virus? What if you have to undergo hyperbaric treatment?
3. What if you need to administer (or receive) CPR?
4. What if you need to buddy-breathe?
5. (More)
Is any of these issues satisfactorily addressed simply by reducing the occupancy of a dive boat by 50% and having the divers occupy every other seat?
rx7diver
1. How does the virus behave in a high-humidity marine or freshwater environment? Is the virus more readily transferred from one diver to another (say, when the divers are suiting up on deck, or lounging in the cabin, or using the head)? Is it more likely to be transferred from an infected piece of equipment to another (i.e., someone else's) piece of equipment--for example, when one 2nd stage brushes/rests either against someone else's 2nd stage or on an infected desk or bench, or uses the same rinse bucket?
2. How does the virus behave in a high PP and/or high PPO2 environment--you know, when you're scuba diving at depth? So, if you are infected (but perhaps asymptomatic), does diving exacerbate/intensify the effects of the virus? What if you have to undergo hyperbaric treatment?
3. What if you need to administer (or receive) CPR?
4. What if you need to buddy-breathe?
5. (More)
Is any of these issues satisfactorily addressed simply by reducing the occupancy of a dive boat by 50% and having the divers occupy every other seat?
rx7diver