"Scuba Diving Killing Older Divers"

[tracydr]

What do you mean waiting. I had three bypasses done 11 years ago and I had to hold the doctor back a week to get somethings done before surgery. He would have done it then and there in his office.

Canada.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Ya, got to love our system up here. Mostly free if you live long enough to get in for treatment.

 

[AfterDark]

After 40 years of diving I can't imagine not diving. So unless I become incapacitated, unable to dive I’ll probably keep diving regardless of health issues or doctors advice. Dying while diving appeals to me much more than dying in a hospital ornursing home. Enjoy life, nobody gets out alive!

 

[herbdb]

I feel the same Afterdark. I am facing this now. I had a small heart attack in Dec that resulted in having a stent in a blocked artery. Now I have to see what hoops they want me to jump through before clearance to dive again. I want to make a dive trip in April and will get to see what the cardiologist says next week.

I don't want to cause an early death, but I don't want to give up diving either.

 

[vladimir]

I'd much rather die while diving than sitting in front of a TV.

Yeah, but I'd much rather have a myocardial infarction sitting in front of the TV—and next to the phone—than while diving.

I feel the same Afterdark. I am facing this now. I had a small heart attack in Dec that resulted in having a stint in a blocked artery. Now I have to see what hoops they want me to jump through before clearance to dive again. I want to make a dive trip in April and will get to see what the cardiologist says next week.

I don't want to cause an early death, but I don't want to give up diving either.

Stent.

 

[Ana]

After 40 years of diving I can't imagine not diving. So unless I become incapacitated, unable to dive I’ll probably keep diving regardless of health issues or doctors advice. Dying while diving appeals to me much more than dying in a hospital ornursing home. Enjoy life, nobody gets out alive!

My husband an I share similar feelings to those.... he did mentioned once, that he'd rather not go on the actual dive because he'd hate to have Dandy Don reporting his death here.

On a more serious note, we are not just thinking we want to dive until the day we die and leaving it to random luck. We are fortunate to have pretty good health both of us, so it seems like a no brainer to maintain it by eating correctly and keeping strength and endurance, not just visiting the gym and going through the motions but truly pushing harder everyday.
Also we managed to eliminate most of the steps in the house, even the access to the boat has now a ramp instead of steps. The ladder to come back on board was designed with having a weak old body in mind.

If we don't get grandchildren soon, some lifting mechanism will go on the boat to aid lifting gear, either that or some surface supply system. Don't have the final design yet, hoping to use grandkids instead... there's still time for them to be borne and grow old enough and strong enough to help with gear.

Keeping in shape and preparing your surroundings to avoid potential causes for injuries or just road blocks should help on the goal of diving all the way to the end.

 

[ScubaSteve1962]

SEE SIGNATURE LINE!!

I'm still waiting to see the person that's live forever, since I don't know when, have a choice, or how it's going to happen, I'm going to enjoy life until it does!! What's the point of living if you're not!!

 

[ScubaSteve]

Wow......somewhat useful conversation stemming from an article from the most fraudulent group known to divers, CDNN.

 

[drdaddy]

I recently got notified about a "Like" to this text. Well, my friend and I are still diving. Right now we are both 62 yrs young!!! And I will repeat (with some updates) what I wrote back in 2008.

Scuba diving can be a "physically conditioning activity". We jetty dive weekly in our cold murky NW Pacific Ocean waters. My friend (62 years old) and I (62 years old) definitely condition our cardiovascular systems as we work up quite a sweat in our 7mm farmer johns as we climb over the rocks and dive finger to finger, in surge and current in 49 degree water (Fahrenheit). Yes, we walk during the week, but our workouts are on the weekend dives. We both went diving this past weekend with me spearing a lingcod, swimming against current to my entrance/exit point. Then another dive w/an extra high tide ripping out, recovered a 15 lb mushroom anchor (craigslist ) and floated w/current and then, dropping it on the floor drifted around a finger and fought my way back again (heavy breathing) climbing up on jetty finger rocks and then plunging in and kicking like crazy.

I guess we aren't performing "correctly" - but we are having a blast!

To say, "Scuba diving is not a physically conditioning activity when performed correctly" is just as relevant as saying "biking is not a physically conditioning activity", or tennis, or wrestling, or whatever. It just depends on if one just piddle-paddles around or goes after one's activity with gusto!

 

[Jax]

Hey, fellow old guys . . .

This inspired me to finish my story . . .

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/di...shed-lung-function-what-does-mean-diving.html