Diving with a Stent

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I don't have any medical expertise but I had a stent put into my heart in 2005. My doctor told me my heart was in great shape and I could keep diving or even run a marathon if I wanted. He said the trouble I had was a genetic flaw and my heart was in very good shape. I did keep diving for 6 more years and never did run a marathon. Simply having a stent in your heart isn't the only issue. Why you have this heart condition seems much more important. Adventure-Ocean
 
If a diver has no known coronary artery disease, does the dive-medicine community have a similar standard to evaluate a diver for fitness? Or does it cease to be a medical question if there is no known CAD?
 
Why do you say the "swimming one is impossibly wrong"? It says swimming 4.0 km/hr is 13.6 METS. 4.0 km/hr is swimming approximately 75 ft/min which is a pretty quick pace for an extended period of time. In cave diving (without flow) we usually plan a pace of about 50 ft/min. Adding some current and 75 feet/min is a good workout.

Dr. Bove gets his workload data and makes some of his recommendations from this reference:
Wasserman K, Whipp BJ, Koyal SM, Beaver WI:Anaerobic threshold and respiratory gas exchange during exercise. J Appl Physiol 35;236-243:1973.

I apologize, my math was apparently whacky last night. 4 km/hour is 66.7 m/minute and about 1:30 100 meter splits. Vigorous, but certainly not world class.

I think you're a bit math challenged too, 4000 m/hr = 2.5 mi/hour = 13,305 ft/hour = 221.8 ft/min :D

I'd love to know what your air consumption is after a few hundred meters at that pace :)
 
4 km/hour is 66.7 m/minute and about 1:30 100 meter splits. Vigorous, but certainly not world class.
It is also just over a yard (or metre) a second. The point is you don't have to sustain it for 100 m.

It is really not that hard to do as a short burst.

Edit: needless to say, it is always better to try this after warming up or building up slowly to it!

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Thanks for posting the link to the article debersole.
 
I swim for exercise and using the study's reference for SCUBA diving (11 METs) to roughly the equivalent for swimming 3.5 km/hr. (11.5 METs) I get roughly 116 meters/minute of swimming is roughly the equivalent.
I wonder how you arrived at 116 m/min.
3.5km/h = 3500m/60min = 58.33 m/min still high but only half your speed :)
 

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