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Ah, I see we have anothe Irvine Knock off. You try to impress us with your ability to insult people. Give it up, George does it MUCH better, and he has a diving track record to back him up, and lend credability to his insults. Why do you feel the need to atrack me personally ?? Because I disagreed with you ?? Who died & left you incharge ??. The internet is about the free exchange of ideas & knowlege. Please do not use it to to stifle that exchange. The first few years I was diving I got seasick if it was too rough. Over the course of the season I grew accostomed to the boats motion and did not ned the dramamine. but I always used it at the begining of the season. Have you ever been seasick ??It is a most debilitating condition. Most people would agree that the effects of sea sicknes can make you too sick to dive safely. Without the Dramamine I would not have been able to dive. or make it thru enough boat trips to get accostomed to it. Luckily I do not need it now. I run a dive boat three days a week and can stand any weather. But there are a lot of other peoplee who need it and use it on every trip. Dramamine is not a sedative, Valium, is a sedative. Dramamine has the SIDE effect of makng you drowsy, like a warm car on a winters day. Heat is not a sedative, but you get more drousy in a warm car. It is a side effect. The state of sleep you are suggesting would be more like Narcolepsy, not drowsyness. Valium has it's own side effects. No reasonable person would take a sedative like Valium before diving. Thousands of people take dramamine before diving. It is true that hperbaric pressure changes the effects of some drugs. This may apply to dramamine. I don't know. But the imperical evidence would appear to prove otherwise. If it were true we would have an ocean full of sleeping divers. As we know this is not the case, Dramamine does not seem to have this Narcolepsy effect on the general diving public. Captain Zero Member E.D.B.A. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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