charlesml3
Contributor
Gang,
I've been diving since 1981 and have well over 400 logged dives. Never experienced narcosis until this past week. Very strange feeling!
Anyway, we were in Cozumel and diving Palancar Gardens. Nothing really unusual. Current was light to none and visibility was 80 feet or so. Diving with a group of six divers, most of them new to diving. I was on EAN-32. This was the 10th dive or so for the week.
Most of the group was spread out anywhere from 45 to 75 feet. I was at 85' and basically just floating past a huge coral head. This is when things went a little weird. I noticed that I just wasn't enjoying the dive. I tried to figure out why I wasn't having any fun but nothing really popped out. I felt disconnected and almost as though I was watching someone dive on television instead of being there myself. I also remember feeling very sad and depressed.
At any rate, I knew the dive just "wasn't working for me" so I decided to abort it and head for the surface. Started finning up and passed 75', 65' and then at about 60' everything got magically better. It was as though someone lifted a blanket off my head. I drifted along for a minute or two trying to figure out what happened before it dawned on me that this was narcosis. I just stayed at around 60' or less the rest of the dive without any further symptoms. I then remembered that this same thing had happened a year or so ago and I never pinned it down to narcosis.
Pretty interesting experience...
-Charles
I've been diving since 1981 and have well over 400 logged dives. Never experienced narcosis until this past week. Very strange feeling!
Anyway, we were in Cozumel and diving Palancar Gardens. Nothing really unusual. Current was light to none and visibility was 80 feet or so. Diving with a group of six divers, most of them new to diving. I was on EAN-32. This was the 10th dive or so for the week.
Most of the group was spread out anywhere from 45 to 75 feet. I was at 85' and basically just floating past a huge coral head. This is when things went a little weird. I noticed that I just wasn't enjoying the dive. I tried to figure out why I wasn't having any fun but nothing really popped out. I felt disconnected and almost as though I was watching someone dive on television instead of being there myself. I also remember feeling very sad and depressed.
At any rate, I knew the dive just "wasn't working for me" so I decided to abort it and head for the surface. Started finning up and passed 75', 65' and then at about 60' everything got magically better. It was as though someone lifted a blanket off my head. I drifted along for a minute or two trying to figure out what happened before it dawned on me that this was narcosis. I just stayed at around 60' or less the rest of the dive without any further symptoms. I then remembered that this same thing had happened a year or so ago and I never pinned it down to narcosis.
Pretty interesting experience...
-Charles