Voodoo Gas In The Vortex! :)

[Fish_Whisperer]

There's your problem, Frank. As soon as you got the Nitrox, you went cold-turkey on the caffeine!

Haha...

Your headache could have been a few things: slight sinus block, cold, neck-strain/ache, lack of caffeine

Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself, got another card, and made it home safe!

PS Just seen your note about the other people - a "tainted" fill would be a common denominator.

Thanks! Yeah... It was pretty uncanny. Add to that, the fact that as soon as we got out, the people next to us had fired up the barbecue, and the wind was sending this great cloud of smoke from burning charcoal and lighter fluid over us... *BLEARGH!!!!!*

Within fifteen minutes of breathing GOOD, CLEAN air, all of us felt better.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

It still doesn't sound safe because you probably couldn't swim 50 yards out of the cave and you have no training and little experience. I wouldn't do it.

Thank you.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Well,

There's another reason for me not to dive at Vortex. Bad fills. Did they reimburse you for nearly killing you? Or just offer you a free fill?

Neither. Just thanked me for letting them know, and said that they would check out their O2.

When I first came out of the water, I felt really REALLY bad. In addition to the headache, I had an all-over malaise. Just... That awful feeling of, "I really don't feel right at all...."

 

[JeffG]

Neither. Just thanked me for letting them know, and said that they would check out their O2.

When I first came out of the water, I felt really REALLY bad. In addition to the headache, I had an all-over malaise. Just... That awful feeling of, "I really don't feel right at all...."

Sounds kinda CO2 like.

 

[PerroneFord]

Jeff, I was thinking the same thing. However, with other divers having similar complaints.... I'd stay FAR away from that place for fills.

Darn few locals dive Vortex, for good reasons.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Sounds kinda CO2 like.

Can you expound on this, Jeff? I'm curious to know what happened, just in case it wasn't a case of a bad filter or something....

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Forgot to add: The highlight of my trip was meeting Tom Smedley and Rick Murchison!

 

[SteveAD]

headache/ nausea/ malaise sounds more like co than co2. co2 would have caused a feeling of shortness of breath, with nausea being unlikely

 

[Misplaced Priority]

Was your skin pinker or red than normal? Isn't that a sign of Co2 poisoning?

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

The headache was the worst. The nausea was really just part of the malaise, and not really all that bad... There was no taste to the air either, which is why I suspected the oxygen, rather than the air.