Diving off Milwaukee this past week and had several new experiences... Most excellent and fun; one less so but hugely educational.
As you'll know from reading, and I hope not experience, a caustic cocktail can be the end-result of serious flood... Preventable mostly by conducting a proper negative/positive pressure test and keeping the mouthpiece where it belongs. My rebreather passed both tests, and the mouthpiece stayed put, but a careless interaction with the wreck we were diving, started my issues.
Luckily, I did not fully inhale so only my mouth was damaged. Secondly, the dive was to less than 35 metres and our decompression obligation was slight... less than 15 minutes. I was able to drink Guinness once back to shore.
However, a question. It seems that for a couple of days, I presented the symptoms of a cold or URT infection... dry cough, dragging my arse around, snotty nose. Correct to associate the activation of the complement complex to the damage done my the caustic mouthwash?
Thank you for any insight.
As you'll know from reading, and I hope not experience, a caustic cocktail can be the end-result of serious flood... Preventable mostly by conducting a proper negative/positive pressure test and keeping the mouthpiece where it belongs. My rebreather passed both tests, and the mouthpiece stayed put, but a careless interaction with the wreck we were diving, started my issues.
Luckily, I did not fully inhale so only my mouth was damaged. Secondly, the dive was to less than 35 metres and our decompression obligation was slight... less than 15 minutes. I was able to drink Guinness once back to shore.
However, a question. It seems that for a couple of days, I presented the symptoms of a cold or URT infection... dry cough, dragging my arse around, snotty nose. Correct to associate the activation of the complement complex to the damage done my the caustic mouthwash?
Thank you for any insight.