Comments on: Good diving, bad air, and sad news http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/16/good-diving-bad-air-and-sad-news/ Scuba diving in Okinawa, and all things to do with Japan Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:53:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: soldave http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/16/good-diving-bad-air-and-sad-news/#comment-3710 soldave Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:37:28 +0000 http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/16/good-diving-bad-air-and-sad-news/#comment-3710 Hey Felon Monk. Thank you so much for dropping in and taking the time to leave a comment on my blog. Sinus reverse blocks like that can be nasty. I had one about 18 months back in one of my teeth. I'd recently been to the dentist and they hadn't filled a filling completely. Air got inside under pressure and then expanded as I ascended. Not nice. This is turning into a Jaws-esque scene of relating horror stories to each other and I don't want to scare prospective divers away so I'll leave it at that! Please visit again though. Your comments are very much appreciated:) Hey Felon Monk. Thank you so much for dropping in and taking the time to leave a comment on my blog. Sinus reverse blocks like that can be nasty. I had one about 18 months back in one of my teeth. I’d recently been to the dentist and they hadn’t filled a filling completely. Air got inside under pressure and then expanded as I ascended. Not nice.

This is turning into a Jaws-esque scene of relating horror stories to each other and I don’t want to scare prospective divers away so I’ll leave it at that! Please visit again though. Your comments are very much appreciated:)

]]> By: Felon_Monk (ZeryYon) http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/16/good-diving-bad-air-and-sad-news/#comment-3709 Felon_Monk (ZeryYon) Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:17:43 +0000 http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/16/good-diving-bad-air-and-sad-news/#comment-3709 that was an awesome story, up until the bad air incident. Bad air as you know can be really dangerous. Im glad nothing happened to you. I wonder what inside of us makes us want to push aside good training and press on when these incidents occur. I know I have done it, I went out for a night dive about 4 months ago, and because of my TDY schedule, i hadnt dove in a while. So i get out with a group of people.. one group is an ADVANCED cert class doing their night dive with Darlene, and then i ventured off with a couple of other people. On decent, i noticed at 10 feet i had some sinus squeeze issues.. but decided to do the ol' "down 10 feet up 5 feet" until i got descended to about 30 feet then it just went away.. i was good until about half way into the dive.. when my right nostril clogged. It was a good dive(just saw a blue ring octo and a normal octopus) so i figured, oh well.. let me finish the dive then i see what went wrong.. when i get to the top I sniffed and spit and it was all blood, had a pain in my right neck.. and my right set of top molars felt like they wanted to crack.. I actually had my last ENT appoitment today after my second cat scan showed im good to go.. I plan to start diving again and go for my Divemaster next summer but lesson learned.. if i would a just called 'knock it off" in the beginning.. i probably wouldnt have had to miss diving this whole summer.. that was an awesome story, up until the bad air incident. Bad air as you know can be really dangerous. Im glad nothing happened to you. I wonder what inside of us makes us want to push aside good training and press on when these incidents occur. I know I have done it, I went out for a night dive about 4 months ago, and because of my TDY schedule, i hadnt dove in a while. So i get out with a group of people.. one group is an ADVANCED cert class doing their night dive with Darlene, and then i ventured off with a couple of other people. On decent, i noticed at 10 feet i had some sinus squeeze issues.. but decided to do the ol’ “down 10 feet up 5 feet” until i got descended to about 30 feet then it just went away.. i was good until about half way into the dive.. when my right nostril clogged. It was a good dive(just saw a blue ring octo and a normal octopus) so i figured, oh well.. let me finish the dive then i see what went wrong.. when i get to the top I sniffed and spit and it was all blood, had a pain in my right neck.. and my right set of top molars felt like they wanted to crack.. I actually had my last ENT appoitment today after my second cat scan showed im good to go.. I plan to start diving again and go for my Divemaster next summer but lesson learned.. if i would a just called ‘knock it off” in the beginning.. i probably wouldnt have had to miss diving this whole summer..

]]> By: Guy at the airport http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/16/good-diving-bad-air-and-sad-news/#comment-3685 Guy at the airport Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:06:08 +0000 http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/16/good-diving-bad-air-and-sad-news/#comment-3685 Hi Dave, Good trip, it sounds like. I hope you can pull off a few more. Ever considered cancellation fees? If you are left with the pieces and have all the risk, I think that such a fee is not uncalled for. Bad air is no fun indeed. Better check the tank before you start the dive. Hi Dave,

Good trip, it sounds like. I hope you can pull off a few more. Ever considered cancellation fees? If you are left with the pieces and have all the risk, I think that such a fee is not uncalled for.

Bad air is no fun indeed. Better check the tank before you start the dive.

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