i say its friday night and i'm drunk right now.......
lets go diving at 1:30am in a thunderstorm! ok maybe drunk diving is bad. but r u drunk after 1 beer 3 hours later? if u are, where did ur wife put ur balls?
In her purse.
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i say its friday night and i'm drunk right now.......
lets go diving at 1:30am in a thunderstorm! ok maybe drunk diving is bad. but r u drunk after 1 beer 3 hours later? if u are, where did ur wife put ur balls?
Do you also refuse to dive with people who've just had a glass of orange juice?
Three hours after one beer, if you are fairly good sized and if you had food with it, your blood alcohol level will be low.
But it will not be zero. And I would not dive with you as a buddy. Nitrogen is bad enough.
And one beer will have an effect on your hydration status, because unlike caffeine, alcohol is a powerful enough inhibitor of normal fluid retention processes that the net effect of an alcoholic beverage is fluid loss.
For those who have been on liveaboards with such drinking rules...
How late and how much will the crew allow a customer to drink at night?
I can see how drinking too much or too late the night before...and then waking up to do an early morning dive might not be a good idea. In fact, depending on several different factors, it could be worse than having one beer at noon and then diving 3 hours later.
You missed TSandM's point entirely by quoting incorrectly.
What eliminates some people as buddies is their attitude about safety. That used to be rule number one before PC permeated scuba.
Is it a coincidence that someone who thinks 300' on air is a good idea would skip over the comment in bold face and try to justify diving inebriated?
Most of your post portray you as a very logical and rational person. How can someone, who believes that thought and not luck rules your day, be so cavalier about ANY substance that messes with your cognitive processes?
In other words, there are many folks who walk through life boozed and drugged and are fine as long as they paint with big brushes. It shows at the hair-wide pin stripes when you are not at your very best.
In diving that would be fumbling with clips, misreading MOD labels, screwing-up compass headings, tying a line sloppily, etc. Is that going to be safe or even fun when we are buzzed, narced, intoxicated, or whatever we want to call it?
Personally I don't have any problem not drinking until at least a couple of hours after the last dive of the day (longer if I've done a deep dive)
I'd be more concerned about the many, many resort divers who are out drinking every night until 3am and then turn up for the morning dive still half pissed and/or dehydrated/hungover than I would about someone who enjoys a single beer with their lunch 3 hours before a dive
When I was learning to dive I was told that drinking and diving was a no no. At that time it made sense because of what was said of dehydration and possibly impair my judgement
When doing liveaboards we are told that our 1st drink meant that we had done our last dive of the day.
My question is..
If I have a beer at lunch (noon) and want to dive at 3:00, how is that going to impair my judgement or dehydrate me?