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In a message dated 95-10-27 08:44:17 EDT, deepdive@sa*.cv*.or* (Timothy
Olson) writes:

>  I'm just saying take a couple 
>trips down to reasonably familiar or comfortable depths and you WILL feel 
>narcosis if you're in tune with your senses, so yeah, it is important to 
>get the "feel" for it.  Otherwize you would be diving haphazardly not 
>even knowing if you are affected or not.

Tim makes a good point here. Also, whenever I go deep on air, I avoid looking
at my depth gauge. By not looking at your gauge, there is less apprehension,
and you tend to not be concerned with making it to a specific depth so to
say.(for example, you hit 180 and decide thats not deep enough so you decide
to go to 200, get there, then decide you want to go to 225).  Also, you can
concentrate on how you feel as opposed to how deep you are. When you feel
like you are beyond the ability to help another diver, then you have past
your "comfort zone". 

Safe Diving,


Raimo.

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