sschlesi
Contributor
The lugging and hauling of gear of which I spoke was immediately post dive when one has considerable dissolved tissue nitrogen. The tendency to form tissue bubbles is greatest when intense muscle activity occurs; the new bubbles will trap nitrogen and then grow to possibly cause DCS problems.
I've been wondering about post-dive exercise lately as most of my diving is from shore and climbing a steep hill after a dive is pretty common. Can you give a bit more detail on what immediately means, please. E.g. will waiting 5 minutes before climbing a big hill remove a big chunk of the risk, or does it take more like 30 minutes? Some qualification on considerable dissolved tissue nitrogen would help, e.g. does considerable mean a compartment is >80% of it's M-value? Is there any info that suggests fast/slow tissues are more/less tolerant of exercise?