Diving to cure DCS

[Joe21]

How many people have cured mild DCS by retuing to depth and making a slow ascent and safety stop?

 

[ShakaZulu]

You guys are really making me concerned about your scuba diving education.....this must be the result of dumbing down scuba diving education materials.

 

[Thalassamania]

How many people have cured mild DCS by retuing to depth and making a slow ascent and safety stop?

Under normal circumstances a symptomatic diver should never be returned to the water, they should be put on 100% oxygen and transported to a chamber. Omitted decompression with a non-symptomatic diver is another story.

 

[Teamcasa]

Under normal circumstances a symptomatic diver should never be returned to the water, they should be put on 100% oxygen and transported to a chamber. Omitted decompression with a non-symptomatic diver is another story.

What about abnormal case?

 

[Web Monkey]

How many people have cured mild DCS by retuing to depth and making a slow ascent and safety stop?

While wikipedia isn't exactly a stellar resource, it does give a number of reasons why it's a bad idea.

In-water recompression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terry

 

[Thalassamania]

What about abnormal case?

Rich Pyle has written well about the problems of and approaches for in-water decompression in a situation where evacuation to a chamber is not possible.

Good discussion in wiki (I think it was posted there by our own Gene from Rubicon).

 

[Joe21]

When I said mild I meant minor joint pain.

 

[Thalassamania]

When I said mild I meant minor joint pain.

What is not clear?

Under normal circumstances a symptomatic diver should never be returned to the water, they should be put on 100% oxygen and transported to a chamber. Omitted decompression with a non-symptomatic diver is another story.

 

[Web Monkey]

When I said mild I meant minor joint pain.

IWR is a bad idea. If you have joint pain after a dive and think it might be DCS, call DAN and see what they think.

Terry

 

[Kevin Carlisle]

How does your answer pertain to the question .. As webmonkey and thalsssamania point out its probably not smart but I bet a lot of older commercial divers have been cured that way. I know 2 or 3 personally. One would still do it that way but I for one would not.

You guys are really making me concerned about your scuba diving education.....this must the result of dumbing down scuba diving education materials.