Looking for illumination on a concern regarding my potentially broken or warped co2 sensor from apnea training in combination with deeper or more strenuous OC diving.
My background is pleasure freediving and now that I'm getting more conscientious as a scuba diver I'm concerned with my apnea training, specifically building up 'tolerance' to ignore (desensite my nervous system) to react naturally to elevated co2 levels.
I've noticed regularly to avoid co2 headaches and dizziness on certain OC dives I have to manually breath remaining focused on full regular breathes and can not resort to a 'comfortable' natural breathing pattern.
Is this common? Or potentially simply paranoia as I'm learning more about the physiology of getting narc'd.
Thanks,
Cameron
P.s. I read some top free divers scuba dive as well and no mention of this concern. Apnea wise I'm at a basic level of training at best after two decades of frogging about breath holding to look at muck and sand cutters.
My background is pleasure freediving and now that I'm getting more conscientious as a scuba diver I'm concerned with my apnea training, specifically building up 'tolerance' to ignore (desensite my nervous system) to react naturally to elevated co2 levels.
I've noticed regularly to avoid co2 headaches and dizziness on certain OC dives I have to manually breath remaining focused on full regular breathes and can not resort to a 'comfortable' natural breathing pattern.
Is this common? Or potentially simply paranoia as I'm learning more about the physiology of getting narc'd.
Thanks,
Cameron
P.s. I read some top free divers scuba dive as well and no mention of this concern. Apnea wise I'm at a basic level of training at best after two decades of frogging about breath holding to look at muck and sand cutters.
