O-ring once bubbled...
Not sure what it means...yet. I just heard on some other lists (techdiver, quest) that a GUE support diver got bent on the Brittanic trip (I also heard it explained like DD posted above). That might not mean much...I haven't heard anything about the instructor though...was hoping someone here had heard more than I had.
As for the support diver getting bent...they should be upfront about it. Nobody will be surprised or give them a lot of crap over someone getting bent...shoot, I remember them talking about having to get out of the water and run laps to "get some good bubbles going" so the Duke guys could get some useful data. If they are hiding it...that would look pretty bad, IMHO.
If you read the quest post, then you must have missed this response, which I think is very appropriate:
> I had a prostate infection a couple months ago, and
> failed to mention it on
> the list until now. Do I owe you all an apology
> because I "covered it
> up"? No, because it's none of your damn business.
>
> Folks who get bent are free to mention it or not.
> It's their body. You
> have no "right" to their medical information, and
> this notion that there is
> a cover up is ludicrous.
>
> George, GUE, and others given people more than
> enough information to go on
> with respect to avoiding DCS. Don't bounce, don't
> dive with a shunt, don't
> let yourself get hypothermic, use the right mixes,
> take the right gas
> breaks, do the right deep stops, etc. You don't
> need a list of who ignored
> these things to learn them yourself. These feeble
> attempts to personalize
> the subject serve no purpose other than gossip.
>