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I get narced to a certain extent at anything below 60ft. I don't really feel I have to start being concerned till 120 or so. At 130 I have to be very careful about what I do and what the gauges say. Come to think of it, I wonder if the whole reason I put up with the diving around here is the fact that I may be addicted to the euphoria associated with being narced and/or oxed. Yes oxed. The real reason people dive with ENAX is that it gives you a higher quality, cleaner buzz. Admit it, you fools. After the diving season ends I am edgy and chew my nails and dream about diving every night. Lasts about a month. Won't happen to Mr. 3-4 dives/yr but for those of you who arrange your whole stinking life around the diving schedule, you know what I'm talking about. When I did my mid-winter keys trip, I was absolutely exalted on my first dive past 70', I did not want it to end. The vis was a lousy 10ft, but who cares, I was flyin' high! When I first started diving I always used to ask "whats the temp?, whats the vis?" down at the dive shop, this garnered strange looks from the salts in the room. Now I understand those looks, I mean who gives a shit what the frigging temp/vis is as long as you got that buzz going, huh? I know most divers don't want to admit to this addiction, God knows what it would do to the industry if the word got out, but I have seen the haunted look in too many divers eyes when a trip gets called on the way to the wreck. With a white-knuckled grip on the stanchions, these divers stare with a hard gaze at the depths of the ocean, willing themselves to be down there with their friend, their buddy, their pal....narcosis! A good test of this would be to take a couple of the real hard-core, Keith Richards type divers on this list, like George or Rich, and lock 'em in a cage about 10' from their goddam 101's and friggin Mark V's and see how long it takes before they start bouncing around the cage like some kind of stinkin Samsonite gorilla, howling "GIMMIE TRIMIX, GIMME OXYGEN, THE ANTS, THE ANTS ARRRRGGG!". I guess we'd have to get them some divers methadone, i.e. a decom chamber, to keep em from damaging the cage. So, let's fess up out there, you bunch of pitiful narc-heads, who buys in on this one? >I get a range of feelings from care free euphoria to extreem paranoia. >It depends greatly on the mood I'm in when I begin the dive, the vis, >the water temp, the ambeint light and what tasks I'm doing. > >I can usually shake off the paranoia, and it makes me very conservative >about the dive. The euphoric feeling is very dangerous, I often >don't relise how narced I am so I make very bad judgements. > >All divers get narcd. The ones that *have never been narcd* probably >get the euphoria and loss of judgement so they don't relise that >they were buzzed out of their skulls. > >Stephen Galperin
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