Diving and Hiking at altitude

Hello,

I'm going to be in Maui in mid July. I will be diving a couple of days and also hiking at Haleakala, which is over 10,000 feet. Of note, I do get altitude sick around 7000 feet, but I have meds for that.

My question is this....I remember somewhere in my training, about a waiting period for flying (24 hours?) and I assume this applies to high altitude hiking/climbing. Any opinions as to whether I should go to Haleakala first, then dive, or visa versa?

Thanks, Beck

divebomb:

Hello,

I'm going to be in Maui in mid July. I will be diving a couple of days and also hiking at Haleakala, which is over 10,000 feet. Of note, I do get altitude sick around 7000 feet, but I have meds for that.

My question is this....I remember somewhere in my training, about a waiting period for flying (24 hours?) and I assume this applies to high altitude hiking/climbing. Any opinions as to whether I should go to Haleakala first, then dive, or visa versa?

Thanks, Beck

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Hike, then dive. You really do not need to be bent seven thousand feet up a mountain.

When dealing with altitude activities and diving, just remember to do things in order from top (above water) to bottom (below water).

I don't know if this would help you, but the new Uwatec computers have an altitude warning. I had to explain it to a lot of students using them as new rental gear - they thought the little "mountain" symbol meant that the computer was at altitude dive setting - but this is not the case. On the display there is a little mountain symbol like an upside-down "W" but one peak higher than the other. When the higher peak flashes, no going above something like 12,000 ft - the lower peak flashing means something like no going above 6,0000 ft, but I am not certain of the exact numbers.

If you could rent one like this, it would remove all of the guesswork or table calculations.