Griffo
Contributor
Firstly for those unfamiliar with Immersion Pulmonary Edema's:
Immersion Pulmonary Edema | The Heart & Diving - DAN Health & Diving
Immersion Pulmonary Oedema - UKDMC
This is both mine and my wife’s perspective of an IPE event. Ask away if you have any questions after my novel below. We have the medical discharge for any detailed medical questions.
Background Stuff:
I’m 41 and my wife is 40. We both could afford to lose a couple of kilos’, but we don’t lead a sedentary life. My wifes health is fine, she was not on any medications, her blood pressure is great (if anything on the low side), there's no family history on either side of any heart issues.
While the last 6 months we would admit to being in a lazy phase, we’ve generally kept fit through cycling, running, or HIIT style gym workouts. Ergo, we didn’t go into this holiday at the peak of our fitness, but we also aren’t a couple of couch potatoes. We dive in pretty much matching GUE/DIR compliant single tank setups. Both our regs were sent for service at a reputable tech shop shortly before the trip. I actually used the wife’s regs the week before and it breathed so well I teased her about stealing them (she has an Aqualung setup, mines Apeks).
The night before the dive we discovered that the main button on my wife’s dive computer was not working, so we had to borrow a shop computer. This is really a side point, but I note it because this computer had a once per minute recording interval and I had to go and buy a $100 USD cable to get the data off it (the dive op didn’t have a cable to take data off their own computers…). So the logs aren’t very detailed.
My wife hit her 100th dive while on Coz. Probably 90 of these have been in the last 8 years.
We were on day three of our Coz stay. The previous week we’d done the Blue Hole plus another couple of dives in Belize, and before we left home we did a couple of local dives, so we had shaken out the cobwebs.
Unluckily between Belize and Coz, I came down with a head cold but thought I was all cleared up for the first days diving when we arrived in Coz. Turns out I wasn’t - I had real issues with sinus squeeze and took a long time to get down on both dives. We skipped day 2 to try to give my sinus more time to clear. I mention this simply to explain that the DM was probably expecting us to be above and behind him during the first part of the dive as we were for those two dives. I also assume we came across as self-sufficient divers as on the previous dives the DM indicated for us to ascend on our own and leave the group when we hit reserve pressure first (we had smaller cylinders on day 1).
Immersion Pulmonary Edema | The Heart & Diving - DAN Health & Diving
Immersion Pulmonary Oedema - UKDMC
This is both mine and my wife’s perspective of an IPE event. Ask away if you have any questions after my novel below. We have the medical discharge for any detailed medical questions.
Background Stuff:
I’m 41 and my wife is 40. We both could afford to lose a couple of kilos’, but we don’t lead a sedentary life. My wifes health is fine, she was not on any medications, her blood pressure is great (if anything on the low side), there's no family history on either side of any heart issues.
While the last 6 months we would admit to being in a lazy phase, we’ve generally kept fit through cycling, running, or HIIT style gym workouts. Ergo, we didn’t go into this holiday at the peak of our fitness, but we also aren’t a couple of couch potatoes. We dive in pretty much matching GUE/DIR compliant single tank setups. Both our regs were sent for service at a reputable tech shop shortly before the trip. I actually used the wife’s regs the week before and it breathed so well I teased her about stealing them (she has an Aqualung setup, mines Apeks).
The night before the dive we discovered that the main button on my wife’s dive computer was not working, so we had to borrow a shop computer. This is really a side point, but I note it because this computer had a once per minute recording interval and I had to go and buy a $100 USD cable to get the data off it (the dive op didn’t have a cable to take data off their own computers…). So the logs aren’t very detailed.
My wife hit her 100th dive while on Coz. Probably 90 of these have been in the last 8 years.
We were on day three of our Coz stay. The previous week we’d done the Blue Hole plus another couple of dives in Belize, and before we left home we did a couple of local dives, so we had shaken out the cobwebs.
Unluckily between Belize and Coz, I came down with a head cold but thought I was all cleared up for the first days diving when we arrived in Coz. Turns out I wasn’t - I had real issues with sinus squeeze and took a long time to get down on both dives. We skipped day 2 to try to give my sinus more time to clear. I mention this simply to explain that the DM was probably expecting us to be above and behind him during the first part of the dive as we were for those two dives. I also assume we came across as self-sufficient divers as on the previous dives the DM indicated for us to ascend on our own and leave the group when we hit reserve pressure first (we had smaller cylinders on day 1).