FPDocMatt
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One of the characters in the movie Sanctum develops some kind of illness while down there. He coughs up blood. I presume this is decompression sickness. But why did it happen?
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He coughs up blood. I presume this is decompression sickness. But why did it happen?
My memory of the movie is vague, at best, except for the opening scenes, but wasn't it the father who coughed up blood? And I thought that was from trauma, rather than diving-related.
Although it probably does not qualify as a movie, I have seen much worse from him recently, and it makes me wonder what he is up to, frankly.That was the singularly worst James Cameron movie I have ever seen ... and none of the diving scenes were very credible ...
IIRC it was an assistant who was coughing up blood due to "alleged" DCS. Like everyone else i'm foggy on the details, but I recall an explanation earlier in the movie that the assistant suffered a DCS hit once upon a time and could not safely dive anymore due to it.
Keep in mind it's a movie
*added* - i believe the idea was he was more susceptible to DCS to to the prior hit and the diving to escape the cave at the end triggered it.