Day one of trip I was pretty congested and decided to dive anyway. I hit up the "nostrilla" (my main poison for combating that) and felt good of down I went. 50Ft. Max everything was cool. I got congested again not long after only to blow a little bit of blood and cr@p out of my nose. Somewhat freaked, but it cleared up pretty quick. Next day night dive same place 50Ft. max. No issues.
Third day congested and hit up the nostrilla again. Seemed clear so went for it. This was my first wreck and deep water dive. 140Ft. Decent was slow. I stayed behind the pack and let the DM know my condition before we went in. The decent was no problem. We didn't have too much time on bottom. We enetered the wreck down along the walkway port side. It was tight with fire worms that seemed to be every where. No gloves and in a shorty I had a somewhat hard time manuvering. Suddenly my nasal cavities (I am assuming) started to close up from about 130ft. -140ft. It seemed like someone was stabbing a knife in my forehead. I am talking worse than I ever experienced any form of sinus pain. Clanged my tank a couple times I managed to get my way through after snagging myself for about 5 second on a growth off the inside wall of the wreck. The snag seemed to last 10 minutes lol. I started getting panicy (which I am a very very calm cool collective person in times of distress). HR went up breathing went up. I got through and deflated BC so I was standing on the deck. I felt like I couldn't breath. I banged on my tank to get the DMs attention and signaled to him that I need to ascend 10-20 Ft because my head felt like it was going to explode. While communicating to him I was telling myself to calm the hell down and got my breathing undercontrol. I ascended to the top deck and chilled out for a few minutes in relief of the pressure. The DM was very cool and I figure understood everything I was communicating to him. He made me feel more at ease. At this point it was time for everyone (all 3 of us) to ascend anyway. This is were the real trouble started. Up through 100ft. I felt the terrible pain again. I had developed reverse block ?? Long story short, I had to stop every 15ft. or so for a minute or 2 to equalize my pressure. I felt kind of bad because everyone else was on the boat for at least 15 min waiting for me. LOL, thank god I don't use any air. We had a safetly bottle at 30ft. I think it was, but I still surfaced with 700psi.
I guess it seemed a lot more dramatic to me at the time. I am a pretty new diver. I was amazed that I actually got worked up enough to get paniky (spelling??), as stated before I never ( or have never gotten) get nervous in emergency or odd situations. It is not in my nature, but there it was. At least I know I could handle myself. The thought of being down 140ft. and couldn't just bolt up was a little unnerving. I couldn't even imagine the pain if I did a rapid ascent.
IMO I don't think for one a wreck at 140ft for my first was appropriate. All in all I have to say I am pleased that I got to experience something like this to figure out how I would react. Getting snagged was pretty damn freaky. It was my 2nd stage that got hung up. I thought I had it tucked away pretty good. This is what prompted me to get an integrated one also. I don't even know if this story belongs in this part of the forum. For me it was pretty serious.
Third day congested and hit up the nostrilla again. Seemed clear so went for it. This was my first wreck and deep water dive. 140Ft. Decent was slow. I stayed behind the pack and let the DM know my condition before we went in. The decent was no problem. We didn't have too much time on bottom. We enetered the wreck down along the walkway port side. It was tight with fire worms that seemed to be every where. No gloves and in a shorty I had a somewhat hard time manuvering. Suddenly my nasal cavities (I am assuming) started to close up from about 130ft. -140ft. It seemed like someone was stabbing a knife in my forehead. I am talking worse than I ever experienced any form of sinus pain. Clanged my tank a couple times I managed to get my way through after snagging myself for about 5 second on a growth off the inside wall of the wreck. The snag seemed to last 10 minutes lol. I started getting panicy (which I am a very very calm cool collective person in times of distress). HR went up breathing went up. I got through and deflated BC so I was standing on the deck. I felt like I couldn't breath. I banged on my tank to get the DMs attention and signaled to him that I need to ascend 10-20 Ft because my head felt like it was going to explode. While communicating to him I was telling myself to calm the hell down and got my breathing undercontrol. I ascended to the top deck and chilled out for a few minutes in relief of the pressure. The DM was very cool and I figure understood everything I was communicating to him. He made me feel more at ease. At this point it was time for everyone (all 3 of us) to ascend anyway. This is were the real trouble started. Up through 100ft. I felt the terrible pain again. I had developed reverse block ?? Long story short, I had to stop every 15ft. or so for a minute or 2 to equalize my pressure. I felt kind of bad because everyone else was on the boat for at least 15 min waiting for me. LOL, thank god I don't use any air. We had a safetly bottle at 30ft. I think it was, but I still surfaced with 700psi.
I guess it seemed a lot more dramatic to me at the time. I am a pretty new diver. I was amazed that I actually got worked up enough to get paniky (spelling??), as stated before I never ( or have never gotten) get nervous in emergency or odd situations. It is not in my nature, but there it was. At least I know I could handle myself. The thought of being down 140ft. and couldn't just bolt up was a little unnerving. I couldn't even imagine the pain if I did a rapid ascent.
IMO I don't think for one a wreck at 140ft for my first was appropriate. All in all I have to say I am pleased that I got to experience something like this to figure out how I would react. Getting snagged was pretty damn freaky. It was my 2nd stage that got hung up. I thought I had it tucked away pretty good. This is what prompted me to get an integrated one also. I don't even know if this story belongs in this part of the forum. For me it was pretty serious.