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From: "Jess Armantrout" <armantrout@wo*.at*.ne*>
To: <trey@ne*.co*>, "Antonia Barnhart" <abarnhart@ho*.co*>
Cc: <quiglem@ib*.ne*>, <simonm@ho*.co*.za*>, <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Laser eye surgery
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 08:31:07 -0600
speaking of Alert Diver, the Jan/Feb 2000 issue, page 37, claims Peter
Bennett invented trimix diving.

Trout

-----Original Message-----
From: Trey <trey@ne*.co*>
To: Antonia Barnhart <abarnhart@ho*.co*>
Cc: quiglem@ib*.ne* <quiglem@ib*.ne*>; simonm@ho*.co*.za*
<simonm@ho*.co*.za*>; techdiver@aquanaut.com
<techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Laser eye surgery


>This is all bullshit, I had knee surgury after Christmas ( 29th) and did
>a deep cave dive with a 100 minute bottom time on New Year's day. I was
>still on crutches when I did the dive.
>
>I dropped 225 pounds on my chest in a rep contest with some of the bros
>at the gym ( blacked out) and broke those bones in the front, and dove
>right through it with zero waiting time. Based on the fact that I had no
>pain yesterday with considerably more weight, I did no damage by diving.
>
>Anything from DAN is one step below what you could learn from a parrot
>or a minah bird. "Alert Diver" magazine is in fact the Bible of the Boat
>Monkey, and I have yet to see anything out of these guys that does not
>come off like Harvard Lampoon when you read it.
>
>The one good thing about diving and the human body is that diving makes
>the body think it is suffering trauma, and that it is under attack. This
>causes a huge cascade of defense and repair machanisms that end up being
>the equivalant of about $1000 worth of geneticly engineered hormonal
>drugs each dive. If you are well vascularized and perfused, this is like
>taking a special DNA/RNA level treatment that lasts for days. Combine
>that with the right deco and gas choices, and you end up ahead of where
>you were before you dove. If you are not in good shape, it ends up
>causing more problems and screwing you over completely, since the
>defense actually sets up the dcs, and then you need the hormone releases
>just to get back to even, which never happens due to the nature of the
>damage caused by the shunting and angiogenisis around the shunts that
>sets up. At least your fingernails get longer.
>
>Antonia Barnhart wrote:
>>
>>     I would like to know why you recommend waiting three months after eye
>> surgery before resuming diving. I am curious because last year I broke my
>> leg and ankle and was told by DAN to wait an additional ten weeks (the
leg
>> took ten weeks to heal) before diving. They could not give me a reason
why
>> other than to say that "doubling the recovery time is conservative". No
>> studies or statistics were offered to suport their recommendation.
Needless
>> to say, I have been taking diving medical advice with a huge grain of
salt
>> since, and I am interested on what you base this recommendation.
>>     Thanks for your time,
>>         Toni Barnhart
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Martin M. Quigley <quiglem@ib*.ne*>
>> To: simonm@ho*.co*.za* <simonm@ho*.co*.za*>;
>> techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
>> Date: Friday, January 28, 2000 4:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: Laser eye surgery
>>
>> >You might be interested in the following URL:
>> >
>> >http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/diveye.htm#Diving After Eye Surgery
>> >
>> >RK (radial keratotomy) is permanently disqualifying for Navy Divers - my
>> >guess is that they'd feel the same about Lasik.
>> >
>> >Realistically, from a diving complication perspective, I'd wait 3 months
>> >after surgery before resuming diving.
>> >
>> >(In addition to being an active cave diver, I'm a physician trained by
>> >NOAA in Diving Medicine).
>> >
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