Here's a possible skin bends incident for analysis.
Dove my regular dive profile (drop down, hang around, make my way slowly up taking pictures all the way, added fighting in the particularly strong current for photography with new strobes with added drag and task ppadiloading, became dark narced, cut my planned bottom time short by 10 minutes and breathed an extra 20 cube of gas in the process.
My table based air dive plan included deco, my backup computer x1 computer set on set on +2 conservation suggested 20% more deco. I added 30% extra at 15ft since it was a strenuous dive and I hadn't felt right.
20 minutes after surfacing the skin on my stomach, back and sternum went mildly but distinctively marbled red/purple. I wrenched my arm exiting the water which added joint pain and my bad knees hurt always. So DAN referred me to get checked out. I could have had a chamber ride but opted for o2 instead.
A day later no symptoms presented besides feeling exhausted and a sore throat from 4 hours dry o2. Still considering it an unexpected near miss.
Only other factor I can come up with was was biking before the dive and maybe didn't hydrate enough.
It was a dive profile I do regularly with more bottom time normally and yet this is the closest I've been to considering myself bent.
That is all.
Cameron
Dove my regular dive profile (drop down, hang around, make my way slowly up taking pictures all the way, added fighting in the particularly strong current for photography with new strobes with added drag and task ppadiloading, became dark narced, cut my planned bottom time short by 10 minutes and breathed an extra 20 cube of gas in the process.
My table based air dive plan included deco, my backup computer x1 computer set on set on +2 conservation suggested 20% more deco. I added 30% extra at 15ft since it was a strenuous dive and I hadn't felt right.
20 minutes after surfacing the skin on my stomach, back and sternum went mildly but distinctively marbled red/purple. I wrenched my arm exiting the water which added joint pain and my bad knees hurt always. So DAN referred me to get checked out. I could have had a chamber ride but opted for o2 instead.
A day later no symptoms presented besides feeling exhausted and a sore throat from 4 hours dry o2. Still considering it an unexpected near miss.
Only other factor I can come up with was was biking before the dive and maybe didn't hydrate enough.
It was a dive profile I do regularly with more bottom time normally and yet this is the closest I've been to considering myself bent.
That is all.
Cameron
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