How to Vomit

[Webbo]

There have been several posts in the past about people throwing up under water, and hinted that there is a special technique for it. One person said they learnt it on their PADI OW. I have just finished my BSAC OD and it was never mentioned. As someone who gets seasick easily, I thought this might my a useful thing to know. Can anyone give me any tips?

Cheers in advance

Webbo

 

[TwoBitTxn]

You can vomit through your regulator. Remember the first inclination afterwards is to take a deep breath. Keep your reg in your mouth, do what you need to do, catch your breath, purge the gunk from the reg, and beware the fish feeding frenzy.

Take your sea sick meds.

TwoBit

 

[simbrooks]

Assuming you are underwater, keep your reg in, puke into it, then once you are done take the reg out, purge and shake about a bit to clear/clean it out, maybe rinse a little water in your mouth too, replace and purge the reg to begin breathing again. It isnt pretty or pleasant, but its functional Also attracts fish. It could be brought on from the waves as you are on the boat or surge as you go under at shallow depths.

Dont take your reg out until you have finished being sick, you might inspire some water and choke/drown.

 

[DeepBlueResort]

Hi

Hold reg in and let rip ....... its the only way, if you have to do it, you have to do it.

 

[ddub23]

Thanks for the tip. My wife gets sick really easily and has come close while underwater from surge. Its a no-brainer on the surface but how to do it underwater was always a question. the fun part is cleaning afterwards...
Derrick

 

[pasley]

Been there, done that. Never thought I would, then one day lobster hunting in shallow water with eel grass waving back and forth in the surge,.....gently waving. Waving, waving gently, back....and forth... urp,...back.....and....forth.....bleeeeeck, it just happened. Held on to the regulator and let it rip though the regulator. Nothing to it.

 

[wet]

If you have to do it in rented regs PLEASE clean them out very well...you wouldl be suprised at how many people do not clean out their regs after puking through them. You probably wouldn't be too suprised that the next person who rents those regs comes back to the dive shop and tells you that your regulators smelled/tasted like vomit and rips you a new ear.

 

[Goose75]

I haven't seen it, but I know those who have. The biggest thing is to hold that reg in while you do what needs to be done. If you don't hold it to your face, you are probably goining to spit it out by accident. Since you are going to be taking in hard breaths as well, you don't want that reg out of your mouth. It may be a gross thing to breath through, but you can always calmly (key word here) surface afterwards and get clean.

 

[MikeFerrara]

I'd guess that if you suspect that you're going to be sick you probably shouldn't dive. While I haven't had to do it I did have a half hour or better to give it some serious thought once. I was back near the peanut restriction after having entered P1 when I started to feel pretty sick. Now that's a fairly long swim with nothing but rock over your head and no pleasent way to end the dive early. I figured that I'd just blow through the reg and switch to my backup if it jammed up. As luck had it my tummy held and I just had a lousy dive.

Note to self...don't eat too many sub sandwiches at the Louriville store while in North Florida diving.

 

[O2BBubbleFree]

If you have to do it in rented regs PLEASE clean them out very well...you wouldl be suprised at how many people do not clean out their regs after puking through them. You probably wouldn't be too suprised that the next person who rents those regs comes back to the dive shop and tells you that your regulators smelled/tasted like vomit and rips you a new ear.

I agree with cleaning up after yourself, but I think I would be rather peeved at a dive shop that doesn't check/clean the regs between rentals.