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Hi I was looking for some info on South African tech diving when I found the following site: http://www.wrectdivers.co.za/ The site has been set up by a group of divers planning to dive the wreck of the Oceanos, a liner which sank off the coast of South Africa about 10 years ago. I found one item under the technical info very interesting: "Once the primary divers have reached the surface, they will be transferred to the medical boat where they will be placed on a drip and pure oxygen. The drip is to counter any dehydration experienced and the oxygen is used against decompression sickness." This isn't the first time I've heard of this technique, but I thought that it had been written off. I think that the idea was to discourage bubble formation by increasing the blood pressure, and because the saline acted as an anti-coagulant. Didnt Rehan Bouwer try this technique in about 1990, and decide it was not worth the effort? The idea seems ill-founded to me. The Oceanos lies in an area known for strong currents, with the result that seperation is a realistic situation. If this is the case, then easy return to the medical boat cannot be assured. I would also not like to be the medic who has to insert a drip into a cold diver on a small pitching boat. And surely if the surface O2 and the intravenous drip are needed, then the deco has been cut dangerously short? Does anyone else practise this technique? Regards TryMix ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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