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Well, the story gets better and better. Further news states that this idiot *was* diving independent doubles and his problem was with his OMS stuporwings. the knucklehead lost track of which bladder he had inflated. So here we have a guy who has to worry about what air he has in his drysuit, what air he has in which bungee wing bladder, what air he has in which tank in his back gas, what air he has in his deco bottles, etc. etc. etc. Is this supposed to be fun? When will you knuckleheads out there get the picture? When will the lightbulb come on? Is this sheer stupidity or some other bizarre manifestation which only psychoanalysis will be able to figure out? Steve and Janet, why do you folks condone this shit? To what advantage would it have been to you North East Dive Boat association to loose yet another mate? Why do you guys, respected members of the community up there, promote this crap? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/ > From: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*> > Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:07:05 -0400 > To: Tech Diver <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > Subject: NY DCS hit > > Interesting story. As I recall this is the fellow who was particularly > quarrelsome and pathetically stupid during last year's Wahoo wars on Tech > Diver. > > This story seems to indicate that either he was breathing from independent > doubles or doing that thing what nobody ever claims that they do, using a > pony to extend his bottom time. > > I'm sorry, but Janet and Steve, for how much longer are you going to let > this stupid stroke stuff go on up there? I am really wondering if doing all > that deep air has effected your brains like it has Tom Mount's. > > Clusterfucks like this do in two or three or more NE divers a year yet > nobody seems to care. Is this a macho thing? Your normal excuse is that you > cannot "tell customers how to dive" but this guy was a mate, a paid crew > member and certainly you have say over what gear he uses. When will you > people wake up? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/ > >> From: "Al Wells" <fossildiver@mi*.co*> >> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:10:23 -0400 >> To: <FlTechDiver@mikey.net> >> Subject: NY DCS hit >> >> http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/tuesday/nd3990.htm >> >> Oxygen Chamber Saves Scuba Diver >> by Katie Thomas >> Staff Writer >> >> A Connecticut man suffered a nearly fatal diving accident 60 miles out to >> sea when his suit took on too much air and he sped to the surface Friday >> without allowing his body to properly decompress. >> >> The incident came at the end of what had been a fairly smooth dive around >> the Texas Tower, a toppled radar station, said the diver, Mark Shannon, of >> Fairfield, Conn. An experienced diver and crew member for the Wahoo, a dive >> boat based at the Captree Boat Basin, Shannon was about to begin his ascent >> from 140 feet in the Atlantic Ocean when he swallowed a mouthful of water >> while switching from one air regulator to another. >> >> After several moments spent bringing his breathing under control, Shannon >> began to head for the anchor line that would lead him to the surface. His >> diving partner, crew member Nick Ricciardelli, had already begun untying the >> line, so Shannon decided to try to make it to the anchor line before fixing >> his suit, which had too much air. >> >> "I started to drift upward, and then I got farther and farther out of >> control," said Shannon, 40, who has dived perhaps 700 times since 1989 and >> is a lieutenant in the Stamford, Conn., fire department. "Then I was flying >> to the surface." Shannon considers himself a lucky man. Often such >> "uncontrolled ascents" can be fatal. Air trapped in divers' lungs expands as >> it reaches the surface and can rupture their lungs if they don't exhale, as >> Shannon did. An air bubble could have become trapped in his blood and >> reached his brain, causing stroke-like symptoms or death. >> >> "This guy was very lucky," said Shannon's doctor, Kenneth Hirsh, of the John >> T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson. "He was very fortunate that >> he doesn't seem to have long-term problems." Instead, Shannon got a severe >> case of what is known as "the bends," or decompression sickness, which >> happens when divers ascend too quickly and the nitrogen that has dissolved >> into their tissue and blood while deep underwater turns into gas bubbles >> that block blood flow and can impede the nervous system. >> >> Crew members immediately fished Shannon from the water and began giving him >> oxygen. Shooting pains stabbed his back, legs and nearly all of his joints. >> >> Captain Janet Bieser radioed the Coast Guard, and within an hour he was on >> his way to Mather and the hospital's hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which allows >> the nitrogen to slowly dissolve. >> >> He spent eight hours in the chamber Friday and has received several two-hour >> treatments over the past several days. Doctors say he is expected to fully >> recover. >> >> Shannon's wife, Robin, learned of the accident Friday afternoon after >> returning from errands with her daughter, Rachel, 3. >> >> "It's the kind of phone call you hope you never get," said Robin, who also >> is an avid diver. >> >> Wahoo owner Steve Bielenda called Shannon an experienced diver and said the >> accident could have happened to anyone. "This is one of those domino effect >> type of things. One thing goes wrong, you pay attention to it, then >> something else goes wrong," he said. His boat conducts about 5,000 dives a >> year. Bielenda said Long Island sees three to seven such accidents every >> year. Eleven passengers and five crew members made the trip aboard the Wahoo >> on Friday. >> >> Despite his ordeal, Shannon hasn't sworn off diving. If doctors permit it, >> he'll dive again. But "I don't know if I'll ever go that deep again," he >> said. >> >> Decompressing How patients are treated for the "bends" The increased >> pressure of the chamber helps decrease the size of nitrogen bubbles in a >> patient who has decompression illness or the "bends," a painful and >> dangerous condition usually associated with diving and caused by gas bubbles >> in the bloodstream and body tissues. The chamber helps reduce the bubbles so >> they can be reabsorbed into the bloodstream. >> >> 100 percent oxygen is pumped into the chamber at high pressure for the >> patient to breatehr. This is a high-pressure or "hyperbaric" dose of oxygen. >> >> >> During the course of treatment, whihc varies, the patient is given air >> breaks of 21 percent oxygen. >> >> In a pressurized chamber, the body is able to absorb two to three times more >> pure oxygen thatn if there were no increase in pressure. >> >> SOURCE: Kathy McGonigle, R.N.; John T. Mather Memorial Hospital; World Book >> Encyclopedia; Sechrist. >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> To contact the list administrator, email >> Mike Rodriguez at mikey@mi*.ne* >> To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a message to: >> listserv@mi*.ne* >> and in the *BODY* of the message type: >> unsubscribe FLTechDiver >> > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. 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