hi
i recently experienced a situation which is still a bit of a mystery to me. i though about it a good deal and discussed it with my dive buddies, but without a good explanation:
after 12 days of daily diving, doing 1 dive session of 1-1 1/2 hrs per day, with an average of 4 dives between 30 and 50m, i had some symptoms after my 2 last diving days.
the symptoms started after the dive and were: strange fuzzy feeling in the whole body which increased in intensity with exercise and being vertical. a minor headache located somewhere behind my eyeballs. a noticable lack of concentration with a rather concerning disability to read/speak sensibly. all that lasted for roughly 2 hours after the dive sessions. overall i felt rather weak and when walking my sense of balance was a bit challanged.
so my questions are:
1. what are chances that this might be dcs related?
1.1. i know that my depths are moderate plus there are few dives a day, but is there any sort of theory on how n2 saturates over multiple days which then increases a dcs risk on shallow dives?
2. another theory i was presented with was that this might have been related to sea-sickness since on those 2 days the sea was a bit choppy.
2.2.i remember being sea-sick before, but that was a rather messy business. plus my synptoms started after the end of the last dive. before i was feeling o.k.
3. any theories on some delayed n2 narcosis? bevan mentioned that e.f. has posted something about this once.
right now i change my diving to warm-up dives of 10m max, 1 deep attempt only, diving every 2nd day.
this whole thing is a bit of a bummer, really. any plausible explanation is highly appreciated.
thanx in advance
roland
