Quiz - Skills & Environment - Aquatic Life Injury

[tursiops]

Right, sorry. Had to go through it in my head-- it's:
I -- Irritability, anxiety and EUPHORIA. Correct?

No. Jeez, look it up and stop guessing! There is no euphoria in VENTID!

 

[Mike1967]

Vision Ears Nausea Twitching Irritation Dizziness

 

[DandyDon]

Spoiler

b is monoxyde carbon poisoning ?
c is hypoxia ?

Nope.

Now we can start a discussion !!!
I think c is not narcosis

Wrong.

 

[Couv]

This is why pufferfish is prepared sometimes with a small amount of the toxin left in.

Fugu me!

 

[TMHeimer]

No. Jeez, look it up and stop guessing! There is no euphoria in VENTID!

YES THERE IS. I LOOKED IT UP (or, there was unless they changed it):

Page 33, PADI Enriched Air Diving Manual 1995-2004:

V-- visual disturbances, including tunnel vision.
E-- ear ringing or other sounds.
N-- nausea.
T-- twitching or muscle spasms, especially in the face.
I-- irritability, restlessness, EUPHORIA or anxiety.
D-- dizziness.

Yes, right after that they write: "You can remember these by remembering VENTID-- vision, ears, nausea, twitching, irritability and dizziness". A slimmed down version.
Perhaps that is the part you refer to. I'm taking that as a win.

I wasn't guessing. I've been memorizing the damn thing almost DAILY since I took Nitrox in 2006--due to my slight (?) OCD. I was wrong the first time referring to E as euphoria instead of ears (though it got my point across), but not the second time.

 

[BlueTrin]

Nope.


Wrong.

Let me rephrase, narcosis make you euphoric but I don’t think that’s what the examiner intended us to guess in c):

I.e. look at the NOAA manual and see how the wording is identical except for parentheses
The NOAA Diving Manual

Sorry I was playing at guessing what the examiner want us to guess rather than what’s correct (you are right that c could fit possible symptoms of narcosis)

 

[DandyDon]

Well, it could also be oxygen toxicity--I believe in "VENTID" (list of signs of oxtox), the e stands for euphoria. But I'm sure it is narcosis.

I don't remember that from my Nitrox class as all, but it's been a couple of decades. Maybe it wasn't there then, and I don't know where my manual is. Or maybe it was, and I forgot along with a few hundred other things. VENTID strikes me a poor acronym, but maybe it does help. Wikipedia calls it VENTID-C or sometimes ConVENTID to add convulsions.

Also agree with Tom. A false sense of well being or euphoria are classic symptoms of narcosis.

Here's your medal in spite of your grammar. Oops, sorry, it fails to show. I have the Grammarly app to help me with those, but sometimes we disagree. I enjoy the buzz of narcosis too much.

Right, sorry. Had to go through it in my head-- it's:
I -- Irritability, anxiety and EUPHORIA. Correct?

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No. Jeez, look it up and stop guessing! There is no euphoria in VENTID!

Grrrr!

Let me rephrase, narcosis make you euphoric but I don’t think that’s what the examiner intended us to guess in c):

I.e. look at the NOAA manual and see how the wording is identical except for parentheses
The NOAA Diving Manual

Sorry I was playing at guessing what the examiner want us to guess rather than what’s correct (you are right that c could fit possible symptoms of narcosis)

I have that manual in hardback, gathering dust. Yeah, Eurphoia is there for hypoxia. How about that.