system: You are Kevin Morgan, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scuba message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ernest Carden about "Wife and Nitrox".

They wrote:
EC>Hey everyone,  My wife is about to start diving again.. She Can't breathe
EC>compressed air until february du to a tragic accident in the Keys.  She
EC>Bent.. however we were well within the tables so I am going to pass a long
EC>couple of things that we learned from it..
EC>The dives were 30 feet for 50 minutes 1hour and 15 minutes Sit and 30 feet
EC>50 minutes...
EC>Due to the overcrowding on that week at the keys and the hulls of boats
EC>looking so similar we surfaced at the wrong boat.  we exerted ourselves in
EC>strong  current during the dive and then had a surface swim of about 50
EC>..to the right boat.
EC>I was fine my wife was a little tired.. we thought that it was just from
EC>hard swim because she doesn't dive as much as I do.. We wen back to the
EC>campsite and took to rest up for our night dive...I woke up  and looked at
EC>and asked her what's wrong... She asked me what the symptoms of Deco
EC>were.. I went down the checklist kinda ya ya ya cause she is a little bit
EC>Hyperchondriac... However when she matched at extreme fatigue, dizziness,
EC>nasue(can't spell) feeling like still drifting on pitching boat I got a
EC>concerned.. She wasn't.  I walked her to the shower, we thought a shower
EC>might snap her out of the funk... and I went to the pay phone and did the
EC>smartest thing I have ever done... I called DAN.  Talked to a physician
EC>explained the situation they were baffled by the dive time but suggested
EC>immediate medical exam if there was even a question.
EC>The things we learned are  she breathes very shollowly on ground where as
EC>concentrates on her breathing in water. therefore she does not offgas at
EC>same rate she ingasses... she need double or triple sit times or just one
EC>excursions.
EC>Also if you even think or don't think or show  any of the symprtoms after
EC>dive, get an exam and call DAN... it could save your life as you know it.
EC>And I f any of you are diving without dive insurance,,... consider the
EC>that if we had not had dive insurance that covered everything,, including
EC>hotel  our medical bills alone came to 15,000 thousand dollars,, thousand
EC>dollars thousand dollars..
EC>Well any ways enought of the means nasty talk divers squeem about. in Feb
EC>are getting nitrox certified so that my wife will dive regular talbes on
EC>tank nitrox dives... and then we will be wet togaether again...

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I can see them being baffled. Two dives at 30 feet for less than 120
minutes total exposure should not have been enough for your wife to get
bent. Maybe she was just experiencing muscle fatigue/strain from the
long strenuous swim.
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How does that affect her outgassing?  Everybody outgasses at a slower
rate then they ingas. Just being at a reduced pressure will cause the
nitrogen in her blood stream to pass into her lungs no matter how fast
or slow she breaths. She would just exhale more accumulated nitrogen
with each breath.
You're right there.
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Using nitrox for 30 foot dives seems a bit on the expensive side... but
hey, it's your money.