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We are hearing that Stone's guys are genuinely afraid of the
decompression from these dives at Wakulla. I had thought they were just
not wanting to get cold or whatever, but our sources tell us that these
guys are really SCARED of this. The scariest thing to me about deco at
Wakulla is the fear of getting to Ocala and not being able to get a room
at Steinbrenner's Ramada.
We have taken this deco business for granted over the last few
years, and now think nothing of incurring massive bottom times, and just
doing the deco - anyplace, not only at Wakulla. We just did a monster
dive in Cheryl, and we did not even put in the troughs - no need for
only doing 140 minutes at 220.
All I can assume is that these guys are not fit for this kind of
diving, have not ever done nay of it, have no idea what to expect, are
complete wimps, and are experiencing all of the warning signs of serious
decompression sickness which is about to manifest itself in some
horrible permantent injury as soon as they actually do a real dive in
there.
I sure would not want to be paralyzed or killed,lose bladder
control, lose use of a limb, or suffer brain damage and end up like
Bruic, but then this is not a real high proablility with me or any of
the WKPP regulars.
Here is the rub: what these guys do not know is that deco is not
at all understood by anyone they are getting their information from.
They do not realize that the correct shape and shorter durations of deco
are in fact far safer. They do not realize that deco in a chamber WILL
SOLVE NONE OF THESE PROBLEMS, and will only give them more time to think
about the horrible inflictions that they will suffer anyway, as they
wake up in the middle of the night after the dive to find that they can
not feel one hand, or that they have pissed in their bunk or go to stand
up and find that they keep falling over.
In fact, the chamber tends to mask these symptoms until it is too
late - ask the oil guys. Alton is constantly representing some horribly
maimed diver who felt great until he got out of the chamber, onlyh to
find out too late that he should not have been diving ( just like
Stone's band of tough guys). Recompressing at that stage is futile, as
the irreversible damage done to the nervous system and swollen tissues
will only hope to be partially treated by intense oxygen therapy, and
relief will be only short lived. That will require personel not on hand
at Wakulla. The drugs and treatment that must be applied to the spine
and brain are not well understood by the "volunteers" operating Stone's
equipment, nor are they well understood even in the hopoitals at
Tallahassee. You need to get to Miami or Morgan City for that one.
Even worse will be the threat of accident dealing with a chamber
or untrained operators, lets say like Chris Brown. How would you like to
have this beauty operating a decompression chamber with you inside it? I
have a feeling that these guys are about to experience a rude awakening.
They have two or four dives and one down already. I will bet they can
not make it past the end of the month without injuring evey last one of
these guys, and we all know in our hearts what is really coming. This
cluster is headed for a real disaster.
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