Shallow depth DCI

[Hillmorton Scubie]

I heard about a tourist that was taken on a Discover Scuba dive, to the maximum PADI guideline depth of 40 feet (12 metres), and was subsequently recompressed in the chamber with symptoms of DCI. I am surprised-what do you think.

 

[String]

Its rare but have been at least 2 recorded incidents here in last 3 years of people getting bent in a 4m pool. Another of an instructor getting bent at 6m open water teaching.

 

[fisheater]

May not be "bent," but embolized.

 

[diver 85]

Dehydration I would bet---I know a DM/instructor on Roatan @ the Inn of Last Resort that got hit on a 40'/35min dive, his 3rd of the day and the 1st 2 were non-remarkable(very safe limits that is)..He and my son worked on an engine in the hole of a dive boat @ noon, this was the 2 PM afternoon dive.....It happens alot more than you think..........Can we say scarry????......

 

[on_two_wheels]

Well, let's not forget the litigious country we live in. A person need only do his homework on symptoms prior to his Discover Scuba to create the setting for a nice lawsuit. If you think those waivers are a strong defense, just ask any personal injury lawyer.

 

[don Francisco]

Anything is possible. It's important to remember that our depth/time decompression formulas are based on statistical probabilties, and it's quite possible that the diver in question suffered a fate similar to that of the statistician who drowned in a river with an average depth of 2 feet.

 

[friscuba]

May not be "bent," but embolized.

My guess is this might be correct. The shallow water DCI cases I've read about have all involved multiple ascents, usually instructors, or air flights shortly after shallow dives.

 

[DandyDon]

You can hear anything I guess...

 

[divermatt]

I once heard about a guy who found and married a mermaid. PADI heard about it too...charged the guy $200 for the PADI underwater marriage course.

 

[DandyDon]

Did he get the Underwater Marriage Enhanced Air card?