Here's a timely, New Year's Day, topic -- Diving with hangovers
As many of us dive on vacations we inevitably stumble into a dive shop or onto a boat with a ripping hangover.
Any surefire hangover remedies?
I remember in the Philippines a dive instructor would take a mix 40% Nitrox for a shallow, warm water dive in the morning and claim that was the best cure.
I once did a freezing 45 degree cold water dive -- in a 7 mm wet suit -- with a horrible hangover. The cold water worked and at splash down it was gone.
But for me, it has just been the Gatorade or banana shake to clear the head and make the early morning dive.
What are your cures? Any are there any serious health worries from diving with a hangover? We're taught that dehydration can increase risk of decompression illness. Anyone here of a case of the bends where a hangover was a real factor?
As many of us dive on vacations we inevitably stumble into a dive shop or onto a boat with a ripping hangover.
Any surefire hangover remedies?
I remember in the Philippines a dive instructor would take a mix 40% Nitrox for a shallow, warm water dive in the morning and claim that was the best cure.
I once did a freezing 45 degree cold water dive -- in a 7 mm wet suit -- with a horrible hangover. The cold water worked and at splash down it was gone.
But for me, it has just been the Gatorade or banana shake to clear the head and make the early morning dive.
What are your cures? Any are there any serious health worries from diving with a hangover? We're taught that dehydration can increase risk of decompression illness. Anyone here of a case of the bends where a hangover was a real factor?