briaeros007
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Hello,
I'm training for a certification which plan to give us something a little like "rescue diver" and "deep diver of PADI" (with a limit of depth of 60m).
In our courses, we are teaching how to rescue an unconscious diver.
The (simplified) procedures is the following :
- we put the regulator of the victim in the mouth of the victim, and keep it here with one hand. (The same hand keep the victim close to us).
- With the other hand, we use the BCD (own's or the victim's bcd) to raise up and keep a constant ascent rate (not too slow, but not too quick).
- We don't stop to do decompression stop, and we will do them in the hyperbaric chamber.
If we do just a "light" dive with very little decompression stop (say something less than 5 min total stop), I can agree, even if I never seen a diver be treated in an hyperbaric chamber in less than 1 hour after the incident so the "easy to access" chamber is a bit obscure to me.
Does this procedure is useful in the case we do some more "engaged" diving, like a 55m / 35 min diving I've got more than 1 hour of deco stop (1 min at 12m, 9 min at 9 m, 23 min to 6m and 50 min to 3 m) ,and my buddy too!
I don't think that a "blow up" decompression sickness could be treated in an hyperbaric chamber, and I give me very little chance of survival if I decide to not follow the decompression stop.
In addition, my instructor does think that nor me, nor the group of diver of the diver, must go down once the victim is safe on the boat and do deco stop I couldn't do when doing the rescue.
1°)"if emergency teams wants to move the boat to go to the hyperbaric chamber, they can't"
2°)"In Water Recompression are forbidden when hyperbaric chamber aren't very far away." (you can't have a true medical help when in-water).)
(Even if it's just doing deco stop we haven't do, and not a medical recompression).
3°) "Diving is a dangerous sport, but you aren't forced to make dangerous activities to have fun" (I'm not too sure if he wanted to say "do only light deco diving" or "you know the risk, you must follow the rules even if its really risky for you").
In case of "heavy" deco stop, do you think it's better to prevent any new casualities, and consider the unconscious diver as a "lost cause" (if he survive at least, he wouldn't have a big decompression sickness, but if he have a respiratory or cardiac failure, he is dead) and do your deco stop (as your group), or you are faithfull on the hyperbaric treatment and a live is something important and you must take the risk to help him ?
I'm training for a certification which plan to give us something a little like "rescue diver" and "deep diver of PADI" (with a limit of depth of 60m).
In our courses, we are teaching how to rescue an unconscious diver.
The (simplified) procedures is the following :
- we put the regulator of the victim in the mouth of the victim, and keep it here with one hand. (The same hand keep the victim close to us).
- With the other hand, we use the BCD (own's or the victim's bcd) to raise up and keep a constant ascent rate (not too slow, but not too quick).
- We don't stop to do decompression stop, and we will do them in the hyperbaric chamber.
If we do just a "light" dive with very little decompression stop (say something less than 5 min total stop), I can agree, even if I never seen a diver be treated in an hyperbaric chamber in less than 1 hour after the incident so the "easy to access" chamber is a bit obscure to me.
Does this procedure is useful in the case we do some more "engaged" diving, like a 55m / 35 min diving I've got more than 1 hour of deco stop (1 min at 12m, 9 min at 9 m, 23 min to 6m and 50 min to 3 m) ,and my buddy too!
I don't think that a "blow up" decompression sickness could be treated in an hyperbaric chamber, and I give me very little chance of survival if I decide to not follow the decompression stop.
In addition, my instructor does think that nor me, nor the group of diver of the diver, must go down once the victim is safe on the boat and do deco stop I couldn't do when doing the rescue.
1°)"if emergency teams wants to move the boat to go to the hyperbaric chamber, they can't"
2°)"In Water Recompression are forbidden when hyperbaric chamber aren't very far away." (you can't have a true medical help when in-water).)
(Even if it's just doing deco stop we haven't do, and not a medical recompression).
3°) "Diving is a dangerous sport, but you aren't forced to make dangerous activities to have fun" (I'm not too sure if he wanted to say "do only light deco diving" or "you know the risk, you must follow the rules even if its really risky for you").
In case of "heavy" deco stop, do you think it's better to prevent any new casualities, and consider the unconscious diver as a "lost cause" (if he survive at least, he wouldn't have a big decompression sickness, but if he have a respiratory or cardiac failure, he is dead) and do your deco stop (as your group), or you are faithfull on the hyperbaric treatment and a live is something important and you must take the risk to help him ?