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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 07:41:56 +1000 (EST)
From: "Paul O'Malley" <p.omalley@qu*.ed*.au*>
Subject: Re: Question: Diving with Asthma
To: Martydive@ao*.co*
Cc: techdiver@terra.net

At 03:42 PM 1/7/97 -0500, Martydive wrote:
>Does anybody else out there dive with Asthma and do Deco diving? I
>would like to try it but I am nervous and do not want yo be a stroke!  

In Australia your doctor can send you to hospital for a test to determine
how bad your Asthma is.  Basically they have you breathe salt water spray
and attempt to induce an Asthma attack (simulates a hole in your second
stage diaphragm), there is a scale they use to determine whether you can
dive or not but I can't remember it off hand.  A few years ago I had a
divemaster who failed his initial medical (due to Asthma) but after having
this test was declared fit to dive, now he regularly dives to 76m and has
never had a problem.

Paul O'Malley

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