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I'm no professional diver, but did a bunch of dives between 60-100ft, and it seems like it can start happening to me around 70-80ft. Experienced divers will be
by folkrav 7y ago
I'm no professional diver, but did a bunch of dives between 60-100ft, and it seems like it can start happening to me around 70-80ft. Experienced divers will be more conscious about when it happens to them, and will plan their actions accordingly.
It's pretty eerie. It's _literally_ like being drunk, but you happen to be strapped to an oxygen tank with 100ft of water over your head, and could get extremely sick if you did something too stupid.
It's actually a pretty safe activity, given you follow safety rules. It's however pretty easy to stray from them.
- eitally 7y agoYep, especially for inexperienced divers. This is why one of the cert qualification dives is a "deep" dive, usually in the 90-110ft (30ish meters), and why that dive is usually just a really simple descent + a few elementary tasks at the bottom while maintaining neutral buoyancy.
- nradov 7y agoExperience provides no protection against narcosis. There is no adaptive effect. Experienced divers who think they can somehow handle it are just fooling themselves.
- diveanon 7y agoI have had it happen as shallow as 10m (33ft). It really depends on your physical readiness before the dive. Lack of sleep, being hungover, hunger, dehydration can all contribute to narcosis. Fortunately it is pretty hard to miss once you have experienced it a few times. If you ever experience just go up a couple meters and the symptoms should dissipate.