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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 06:34:15 -1000 (HST)
From: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.Ha*.Or*>
To: "A.Appleyard" <A.APPLEYARD@fs*.mt*.um*.ac*.uk*>
Cc: techdiver@terra.net
Subject: Re: Tired after diving

> > I don't want to say this isn't so but I was under the impression that the
> > tiredness was the result of accumulated Nitrogen in the nervous system. ...
> 
> I always thought that tiredness from diving is caused by the same thing as
> tiredness after a day navvying or a day shifting goods in the docks etc. The
> average aqualung diver is hydrodynamically a bad shape, and pushing all that
> lot through dense water for an hour or so uses up a LOT of energy. 

If the tiredness was due only to physical exertion, then why is it I feel 
wasted after a 10-minute drift dive (no exertion) to 100 feet on air, but 
I feel great all day long after a 2.5-hr swim dive on nitrox to the same 
depth?  This is a pattern that is repeated over and over for me.

Aloha,
Rich

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