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01-31-2022, 11:25 PM
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Re: Dead SCUBA Divers
It all depends. If you go deep enough, 120' and deeper, you start to experience nitrogen narcosis, which is the nitrogen in your blood reacting to the pressure and behaving as a narcotic. That could be peaceful. But if you have a barotrauma (rapidly changing pressure injury), like holding you breath while ascending to fast, your lungs could actually explode...which is probably quite painful. |
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01-31-2022, 11:31 PM
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Re: Dead SCUBA Divers
No, you know when you're running out of air on SCUBA. It becomes harder to draw from the mouthpiece. But if you are properly trained, you are monitoring your air gauge and know to start your return from the dive before you reach 500 psi in your tank. If you have equipment malfunction, again you are trained to buddy breath with your dive partner. I'll bet every single one of the deaths in this thread is attributable to poor training.
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02-01-2022, 01:33 PM
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Re: Dead SCUBA Divers
I wonder if they got lost in the caves when their air gradually ran out? Such a horrible way to go, panicking that you knew you were going to drown in the dark unless you could find a way out, gulping more and more air as the chilling fear set in.
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