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> From: bmk@ds*.bc*.ca* (Barrie Kovish) > I'd say that number 2 pretty much covers it! I, at least, have made repeated > free dives to ~100 fsw while using the technique outlined in my original post. > Although I don't think that 100 fsw is the magic number. I recall a paper > describing bends in free divers making repeated dives to 60 fsw (or was it 90?). > There was even a case reported to this list some years ago of a free diver > in South Africa who was bent making repeated free dives to the 100 fsw area. > Does anyone know what happened to this person? I think I reported on this some two years ago... From memory: Incident happened after an intensive spearfishing competion, multiple dives in one day to depths between 25 and 30m (85-100fsw). Some six hours after the competition the diver had trouble talking and difficulty with his coordination. Diagnosed as having a neurological bend (make sense, deep descends, fast ascends). Was treated for five days, two hours/day in a recompression chamber, don't know schedule. Think he recovered completely. Initial report was more complete, somewhere in the archives, scuba-l's probably. - Gerrit ****************************************************************** G Conradie [\] Phone: +27 21 808 4452 (W) Dept. E & E Engineering +27 21 887 0880 (H) University of Stellenbosch Fax: +27 21 808 4981 (W) Stellenbosch, 7600 Url: http://www.sun.ac.za/ South Africa Email: conradie@fi*.su*.ac*.za* " Keep on breathing, it's good for you " ******************************************************************
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