Serious question, Nitrox and extended erections

[caruso]

Ok let’s keep the answers serious. I too have concerns for this poor woman’s husband. What if he’s swimming merrily along observing the aquatic life on a busy reef and gets a bit too close and accidentally sticks that monster into a hole occupied by a moray eel who reacts with a defensive bite? Suddenly it’s not funny anymore.

 

[txgoose]

@caruso did we establish that it was his 100th dive? each time.

 

[JackOfDiamonds]

This is my new favorite post

On a more serious note, I've never experienced this while diving Nitrox.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Finally a way to use the finger spool yet still leave hands free.

 

[Jayfarmlaw]

Finally a way to use the finger spool yest still leave hands free.

That's funny right there....I don't care who you are!!

Jay

 

[lowflyer]

So the hypothesis here--if there is one--is that a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen that is enriched with oxygen so that the nitrogen percentage is actually LESS than the air we breathe at the surface, causes MORE nitric oxide to be produced in the body than would be produced if the person were breathing air? Even if nitric oxide production is related to "bubbling," wouldn't there be LESS nitric oxide produced because enriched air presumably reduces bubbling?

Exactly.

I have forgotten 99% of the many chemistry and physiology courses I once took, but until someone with more knowledge steps in, I believe that in physiologic conditions (in the body), N2 in the air (and in nitrox) is an inert gas and does not convert to anything.

So breathing N2 in the air, or in particular a lower percentage in nitrox, is not causing priapism.

That leaves the higher concentration of O2 in nitrox as a potential cause. I've seen a lot of people breathing high O2 concentrations and never saw priapism as a result.

Maybe I'm wrong, or we are being spoofed, or there is some other physical or psychological explanation.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Need to see the OP in a wetsuit to decide if Nitrox is the cause.

 

[RyanT]

Finally a way to use the finger spool yet still leave hands free.

you owe me a keyboard Chilly...I just spit everywhere.

 

[tech_diver]

I've done a lot of tech diving with all kinds of O2 concentrations for different lengths of time but I've never experienced this issue. This is the first I've heard of it.

However, most of my diving is in cold water.

 

[Storker]

Finally a way to use the finger spool yet still leave hands free.

Given that I won't even stick my finger through the spool hole when I'm shooting a sausage...