It isn't easy seeing green...

[Fuzzmutton]

Sounds like a good theory, but... What I was seeing was pretty much everywhere, though, and I don't see how the hubby could have missed it. We were shoulder to shoulder and you would think if the color was a natural phenomenon and not my eyesite or a trick of the mind that he would have had to have noticed it too.

Sorry, not trying to shoot down all helpful ideas

 

[DandyDon]

Next time you do go to 65 ft, take something read. Watch it change color, have him watch, see if you two see it the same.

Except, I don't know? Could be something else? I don't know if you should. You may need to explore more with the medical pros...??

 

[Fuzzmutton]

Sounds like a plan. I will try that.

Thanks Don.

 

[Eris Lucan7*]

You need of Tima-Oculav,that is one off the best medicine for that.Ask in your local Pharmaci.


E.L.7*

 

[Fuzzmutton]

It happened again on my dive getaway to Monterey over Thanksgiving week.

I dove 8 times (I am a wimp when it comes to freezing my butt off in cold water) and one of the times my hubby was intent on finding some underwater site we have heard about but never been out to see. We swam out from shore a good way, which always creeps me out (I hear the theme music from Jaws starting up!), and then we dropped down to try and find this pipe coming out from shore that we would navigate from. No dice. So hubby starts off briskly in the direction he believes the Metridium Fields to be in and I try to keep up. I am not as powerful of a swimmer as he is and I am soon working hard. He is not hardly taking in any scenery in his haste to find this place before we are low on air, as he does not want a looong surface swim in. We finally spot *three* lousy metridiums, no field, and we are at about 50' when I notice my vision is swirling psychedelic neon green. THIS CAN BE NO NATURAL PHENOMENON. I am not panting, I am breathing regular breaths (I'm fairly certain) from my reg, but I have the feeling that I'm on the verge of a blackout. I signal to my husband that something is not right and that I want to surface immediately and he is very irritated, the field has to be around here somewhere close.

We surface. He is not impressed with my vision impairment story and insists that he was able to barely make out metridium on the underwater horizon. He relents though, finally. He knows if something happens to me HE will be stuck with the boys...alone...bwa ha ha ha

 

[Fuzzmutton]

BTW, does anyone think it could be CO2 buildup struggling to keep up with my hell-bent-for-leather husband who always takes off like he has been launched out of a torpedo tube?

 

[DandyDon]

BTW, does anyone think it could be CO2 buildup struggling to keep up with my hell-bent-for-leather husband who always takes off like he has been launched out of a torpedo tube?

That would certainly go with "I am not panting, I am breathing regular breaths (I'm fairly certain) from my reg, but I have the feeling that I'm on the verge of a blackout," but you need the words of a diving eye doc here.

You know, some married couples do better with different buddy arrangements.

 

[Fuzzmutton]

As for your last comment about the different buddy arrangements, I've noticed on the three occasions that I've buddied with others that I fair better. I'm grooming my son to be my buddy, though, for when his Dad aggrevates me enough that I won't dive with him anymore.

What's up the the new avatar, DDon? Personally, I like your mustache MUCH better than his

 

[TSandM]

It sounds as though, for whatever reason, this green coloration is part of the visual changes that mark impaired consciousness for you. CO2 is highly narcotic, and if you're retaining at depth, adding that to the nitrogen could result in significant impairment. Most people, if they are verging upon losing consciousness, experience a sensation of "tunnel vision", but I suppose it's possible to have some other visual symptom.

Fuzz, it really does sound to me as though you guys need at least a period of doing what Peter and I did (and still do, to a degree). We would make arrangements to dive with friends, and when we got to the dive site, I'd dive with one of them and Peter would dive with another. We all got to enjoy diving, but we got to dive the way we preferred (which even now remains somewhat different). Over time, you may get stronger and more confident and more able to keep up without stress, but you may never want to dive as fast as your husband does. And if you're very lucky, over time, your husband may decide that, to dive with you, he is willing to slow down a bit. But matching spouses as buddies doesn't always work terribly well.

 

[Fuzzmutton]

I think he would HATE the idea of diving with someone else, but if the opportunity arises I can throw out the suggestion. On the occasions when I have dove with someone else I have felt relaxed and comfortable (with my diving). I would much rather dive with someone who's interests in underwater exploring and pace match my own instead of being hustled along.

I think if hubby and I could find another couple to dive with and the guys went one way and the girls went another, that would be great.