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You wrote: > > > > People who use drugs, smoke cigarettes, drink, and otherwise are unable to >live their live without something to satisfy their addictions or take the edge >off of reality, and for whom a sedentary lifestyle is the norm have no business >diving, no matter what DAN and PADI say. > > These types swell the rolls of the accident victims and DCS cases, inflating >the medical costs associated therwith and eventually will make us all pay more >or not be able to get coverage for genuine accidents. DAN needs to wake up and >get serious about this, rather than coing up with more ways to be a good weenie >-the training agencies and computer manufacturers already have that one covered. > George, here you go again extrapolation from zero data. Nobody has shown that smoking or EtOH increases probability of DCS. As a matter of fact the Chinese published an article a # of years back where they treated DCS with EtoH instead of HBO (UHMS published it in UBR with a disclaimer). Studies of NAvy divers indicate that they have terrible diets, smoke & drink relatively heavily (If I recollect correctly ~ 7% of calories from EtoH). THose habits are also very prevalent among commercial divers & divers outside of the US don't even have our 'no drinking before diving rule. The French tend to have a glass of wine for lunch & continue to plonger. Sponge divers in Greece, Tunisia & Turkey have very high smoker ratios. All in all no spikes of DCS have been recorded over the years in which those populations have been diving & stats have been available I do not advocate that bombed individuals, rapidly taking final puffs of their favorite weed, diving. However it is hard for me to condone such outburst with absolutely no evidence. As for DAN. It is not perfect, but it is the best that the recreational diving community has available. I would take great issue with any suggestion that it has not raised overall diving safety consciousness. It has brought forth numerous topics that are now in the mainstream of diving (O2 use in 1st Aid, PFO). As a matter of fact I think that, if anything, they have a conservative approach, rather being liberal in 'clearing for diving' (Especially in post DCS situations & many other maladies that are not considered counterindications to divng elsewhere in the world). As always, Regards Esat Atikkan
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