Diving in the rain +

[M.D.]

Hey SB users,
I was talking to my brother today and he asked me if there would be any problems diving in a big thunderstorm. More specifically, if lightning happened to hit the water near us would we get shocked. I'm sure this question has been posed somewhere on here before, but I'm too lazy to check.

Now for something completely different... You'll all be happy to know that I finally quit smoking. So far it's going well. Question: is there any ex-smokers out there that have noticed it's easier to equalize after quitting? I remember someone telling me that a dive shop before.

Thanks

 

[SteveAD]

Oh my god!!
You can't dive in the rain, you might get wet.

 

[RJTY]

or even worse, your gear might get wet!! Great job on the smoking. Its so hard. Keep it up!!

 

[mfalco]

I wouldn't want to dive if there were lightning

 

[Soggy]

First...diving in a thunderstorm = a very bad idea. Even though you might not get shocked while you are diving, you do have to surface sometime and now you are most likely the highest point with big steel tanks on your back.

I am not a physicist, but *from what I understand* diving in a thunderstorm in fresh water is *really* bad because our bodies are more conductive than the surrounding water. Diving in salt water might not be quite so bad because salt water and our bodies have a relatively similar conductivity.

Let me repeat, I am not a physicist....following my advice might result in your death.

 

[JohnW]

Don't really know about the Thunderstorm thing, but I do think if you got hit by lighting on the Surface, it would be really bad.

Congrats on the Smoking, I quit 4 years ago and it has completly changed my life. I'm hardly ever tired anymore(when I smoked I was tired all the Time). I have a lot more money (I smoked 3 packs+ a day) and can actually afford Scuba and the trips. I hav'nt felt this good since I was 18 (that's when I started smoking). Keep with the plan, it'll be the best thing you have ever done.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Hey SB users,
I was talking to my brother today and he asked me if there would be any problems diving in a big thunderstorm. More specifically, if lightning happened to hit the water near us would we get shocked. I'm sure this question has been posed somewhere on here before, but I'm too lazy to check.

Now for something completely different... You'll all be happy to know that I finally quit smoking. So far it's going well. Question: is there any ex-smokers out there that have noticed it's easier to equalize after quitting? I remember someone telling me that a dive shop before.

Thanks

Related topics, actually ... since if you were struck by lightning while diving, you would start smoking again ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[M.D.]

Wow, thanks for the quick responses.

Yeah I figured the lightning might pose a problem... it would probably look really cool seeing it underwater though.

Thanks to the exsmokers. Any advice or encouragement really helps.

Now . . . I need to get a dive in, it's the start of a new season (I don't dive dry.....yet)

 

[JohnW]

Actually back to your original question, I've only started diving recently and had quit smoking long before I started Diving. But I can remember alway being conjested as a smoker. I breathe really well and it's been years since I've hacked up any flem. So I do think it would be way easier for a Non-smoker to eaquilze. I don't even have to hold my nose to eaquilize now, I just kinda press my tounge up against the roof of my mouth and voala I eaquilize .

 

[Nailer99]

Good for you r/e quitting- I just quit 6 weeks ago, and the psychotic rages have abated somewhat. As far as the lightning goes- yeah, I wouldn't want to be doing a surface swim, but let me counter with another question: Has anyone noted lots of dead or stunned fish washing ashore right after a lightning storm?