CaptainHornblower
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Went diving at Lake Tahoe last weekend and at the end of the second fairly short dive, surfaced and starting vomiting before I could even get my gear off.
We did our first dive, lasted about 40 minutes and went down to about 60 feet. When we got back to shore and I stood up I felt dizzy and nauseous. After maybe 30 seconds to get my feet under me we walked to our truck maybe 50 yards away. After an hour and a half my head felt pretty clear so we decided to do our second dive. We went down to about 60 feet and after about 15 minutes I felt the nausea start again, so I signaled my buddy and we headed back up to the shoreline. I stood up and felt so dizzy that I had to hold on to my buddy to keep from falling over and then started feeding the fish. I dropped my gear and walked back to the car. I felt tired, a little dizzy and still a little pukey.
The night before I went to bed on time, normal meal, good night's sleep, same breakfast as always, no nerves, ears clear. No indication that I should have had any issues whatsoever. I almost never get motion sickness (I sail and boat a lot in the San Francisco Bay and out side the Gate and rarely if ever feel any seasickness and never actually barf). My buddy and I talked it through and kept circling back to bad air, but what's the chance of that happening in this day and age, right?
The following Monday I called the LDS where I got the tanks filled and told them what happened; I asked if anyone else had complained. They said they'd not heard anything from anyone and had no idea. They said it was virtually impossible to get bad air (I asked about maybe CO since those are the symptoms I had), and they certainly hadn't heard anything, but they'd keep their ears open in case there were any other complaints.
We took all 4 tanks to a different LDS and told them what had happened, so they said they'd VIP them and refill them. I talked to them today; they found puddles of oily water in three of the 4 tanks. Mystery solved.
Then I hear from the operator of the LDS that found the oil/water in my tanks that he'd heard that the other LDS's compressor had a cracked filter a few weeks ago, but they got it fixed and thought they'd caught all the bad fills. I guess they missed at least 3 of them. Wonder why they forgot to mention that when I called?
We did our first dive, lasted about 40 minutes and went down to about 60 feet. When we got back to shore and I stood up I felt dizzy and nauseous. After maybe 30 seconds to get my feet under me we walked to our truck maybe 50 yards away. After an hour and a half my head felt pretty clear so we decided to do our second dive. We went down to about 60 feet and after about 15 minutes I felt the nausea start again, so I signaled my buddy and we headed back up to the shoreline. I stood up and felt so dizzy that I had to hold on to my buddy to keep from falling over and then started feeding the fish. I dropped my gear and walked back to the car. I felt tired, a little dizzy and still a little pukey.
The night before I went to bed on time, normal meal, good night's sleep, same breakfast as always, no nerves, ears clear. No indication that I should have had any issues whatsoever. I almost never get motion sickness (I sail and boat a lot in the San Francisco Bay and out side the Gate and rarely if ever feel any seasickness and never actually barf). My buddy and I talked it through and kept circling back to bad air, but what's the chance of that happening in this day and age, right?
The following Monday I called the LDS where I got the tanks filled and told them what happened; I asked if anyone else had complained. They said they'd not heard anything from anyone and had no idea. They said it was virtually impossible to get bad air (I asked about maybe CO since those are the symptoms I had), and they certainly hadn't heard anything, but they'd keep their ears open in case there were any other complaints.
We took all 4 tanks to a different LDS and told them what had happened, so they said they'd VIP them and refill them. I talked to them today; they found puddles of oily water in three of the 4 tanks. Mystery solved.
Then I hear from the operator of the LDS that found the oil/water in my tanks that he'd heard that the other LDS's compressor had a cracked filter a few weeks ago, but they got it fixed and thought they'd caught all the bad fills. I guess they missed at least 3 of them. Wonder why they forgot to mention that when I called?
