No farting at >30 ft -- Myth?

[tridacna]

So I'm on a dive boat today and one of my "new" buddies, a gastroenterologist - call him Dr. Jim, claims that you can't break wind below 30ft. Something about pressure on the rectum or colon. Now I'm not going to challenge Dr Jim by eating beans and diving to 40 ft - it would wreck my buoyancy...

Anyone confirm or blow up this myth?

 

[tridacna]

exactly - time to blow this one up!

 

[GrumpyOldGuy]

I think your buddy is full of sh**!

 

[SenseiPSK]

Pressures should be equalized, no? Hence no reason why you couldn't fire one out.

 

[sambolino44]

Been there. Done that.

But then maybe I'm especially talented.

 

[Blackwood]

myth.

I used to... decompress through the rear on a regular basis. Then I got a drysuit.

 

[Prostar]

Let 'er rip!

 

[scubamax]

Pressures should be equalized, no? Hence no reason why you couldn't fire one out.

Can you please describe this method of colonic equalization? is it like valsalva...what do you squeeze?

 

[bigken462]

The only place I would suggest not ripping a country fart is in your drysuit. What you expel then, will surly greet you later. Lol.

Ken

 

[SenseiPSK]

Can you please describe this method of colonic equalization? is it like valsalva...what do you squeeze?

Aren't any air spaces compressed until they are at equilibrium with the surrounding pressures? You're body isn't a hard shell, so it will compress until internal gasses match surrounding pressures I would think.