No farting at >30 ft -- Myth?

[MrsBottomfeederBrodie]

Too funny... Make it stop!

 

[David P]

This topic comes up from time to time. I remember one thread from years ago where someone was saying he had gas really bad and he wears a drysuit... which happens to be a rear entry. He and his buddy exit the water, doff their gear, and he puts some extra air in his drysuit after a very gassy dive. So now his drysuit is really under pressure, he walks up to his buddy turns around and says "Unzip me" POOF!

 

[scubassplayer]

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

No Pleeeeeese don't

 

[bigken462]

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes a fartin thread. This one takes the......gas.

Kenny

 

[Louma]

Just don't try lighting them, there might be another diver behind you.

 

[deco_martini]

OK ... more information than I needed with my breakfast ... :no

They never covered what to do if your insides suddenly wrench in knots and you have to blow a foamer at depth in my open water class either.

 

[perdidochas]

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?

Think about it logically. Any gas space in the body, when under pressure will be compressed. If you had 1 liter of flatulence built up, it would be only .5 liters at 33 ft. Not quite as likely to fart out. On the other hand, if you do most of the dive at 66 ft, and build up gas then, when you have .33 liters of gas in your intestine, it will become .5 liter at 33 ft, and likely to cause you to fart. ON the way to the surface, ti will become a liter (if not expelled before). Definitely fart inducing. IIRC, in my openwater class in 1982, they warned us about not eating gas inducing foods because of the chance of a squeeze in the intestine.

I can't see logically how pressure on the outside of the rectum or colon would prevent farting altogether. I can see how it would be less likely.

 

[Inalara]

Now why do you want to go brining logic into a thread that had me giggling away

 

[Hank49]

Don't rip while spearing or photographing. It scares the fish.

 

[Buoyant1]

They never covered what to do if your insides suddenly wrench in knots and you have to blow a foamer at depth in my open water class either.

He said foamer!