What do you suppose really happened?I think we can discount many of the odd terms & descriptions to journalism these days.
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What do you suppose really happened?I think we can discount many of the odd terms & descriptions to journalism these days.
I’ll have to look into it. Is it easily available like Dramamine?scopolamine is supposed to be really effective but I don't know if it has any potential to make a person more susceptible to narcosis.
I have never used it but, I am pretty sure that you will have to work through the US healthcare mafia system to get some at a massively elevated price though. Unless you are going overseas, where you can probably purchase at any pharmacy for penny's on the dollar.I’ll have to look into it. Is it easily available like Dramamine?
What do you suppose really happened?
My wife and I both did O/W certification in the 1980s (in different countries) and my strong impression is that we spent a lot more time in the classroom, and did a lot more practical drills, compared to typical current O/W courses. A lot of the drills really tested your confidence, like retrieving and donning all of the gear underwater, doing exercises with blacked-out masks, out-of-air drills where the instructors would turn off your air without warning, etcetera. I guess they got rid of those things because it was bad for business.Me too, but if she was certified 30 years ago.. who knows what her instructor taught her back then and of that what she would actually remember. My regular dive buddy was certified decades ago by a defunct agency called NASDS. Apparently they included a full on cave dive in open water class during his certification. Although some claim instruction has gone down hill over the years, there is at least some evidence to the contrary.
It sounds like the Instructor inflated her BCD to get her to the surface quickly, due to there probably not being enough gas between the three of them to get everyone to the surface safely, better a bent diver on the surface than a dead diver at depth after running out of air!