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I saw the same show the omitted deco danger was real but the panic the show portrayed was really overkill. They had a chamber on the boat. (why do in water deco with a chamber on hand in the first place?) Either way they should have been ready with the chamber for just such an emergency, had decompression schedules planned, a crew on hand, etc. From the time the divers blew-up past 40 feet the "sur-d-O2" tables allow 5 minutes to get out of the water, into the chamber, and back to 40 feet. The decompress on periods of O2. If they don't make the 5 minute time they run a Table 5. Commercial Divers almost always decompress in the chamber not in the water. I was a little peeved after watching that show. I mean of course decompression is dangerous but why portray it as such a disaster when the outcome was a standard surface decompression. These kind of shows don't much help in promoting the sport. Just my 2 cents. DM ---------- From: Jim Cobb[SMTP:ir002538@po*.in*.co*] Sent: Monday, February 19, 1996 5:36 PM To: Tech Diver Subject: Interesting Situation Saw a show on cable last night about some ozzies deep diving on on an old wreck using surface supplied air. Apparently they were hanging on their hoses for decompression with no attachment to an assent line. A current came along and they swung up from their stop depth like a couple of pendulums. The dive boat was a beauty, complete with decom chamber, so they were hustled on board and shoved into the chamber. They survived. This seems like kind of a obvious mistake, or does this go on all the time with commercial divers? Jim -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'.
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