Lead poisoning?

[john cootes]

A book that was printed here in Australia and distributed by DAN "Diving Medecine for Scuba Divers", has a curious comment regarding the use of lead in weight belts. I quote from the book:
"The deliberate attachment of up to 10 kg of lead weight, or more, to a neutrally buoyant air-breathing creature in the water has obvious safety consequences. 'Lead poisoning' is a common contributor to recreational scuba deaths".
Admittedly the book was first printed in 1992, but it gives no further explanation about how lead poisoning actually occurs. Comments, anyone???

 

[Doc]

"The deliberate attachment of up to 10 kg of lead weight, or more, to a neutrally buoyant air-breathing creature in the water has obvious safety consequences. 'Lead poisoning' is a common contributor to recreational scuba deaths".

It's a reference to severe overweighting. Since the days of that publication, instructional books have been modified to remove anything requiring a sense of irony to figure out.

Obviously, no one's health has ever been thretened by a solid block or pelletized lead, unless you're on the Sopranos. The danger is in the injesting of the dust. Lead weights and pellets are essentialy dustless.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

You sink and you drown if you are not careful. Kinda like 9mm "lead poisoning".