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I fully realize this is all my fault but fault is not what my question is about. Some background.
I was having some trouble with my main puter because it got activated on the plane and set at altitude, I did not know this till I got back home. On my first dive it was giving a different depth than my backup and what other divers had on their puters. Next dive it worked fine, it reset at sea level, and on the next few dives it did also, but it still unnerved me a bit. Two divers I was with wanted to do the Devils Throat because I had told them how great it was, I had done it twice before with no incident. They were insistent on doing the dive but I did not want to do it because of my puter problem a few days earlier. Long story shorter -I went thru first series of tunnels OK, but exited a little wider than the two divers ahead of me and got caught in a bit of current that also brought me a bit shallower than them by about 12/15 ft. At this point I was behind them and above them. I struggled to get down to them and enter next series of tunnels. I must have been breathing rapidly and got a bit of carbon minoxide/dioxide? build up. I was then at 122ft in the next series of swim thrus with a opening about 60 ft in front of me. I suddenly got a full blown case of nitrogen narcosis and got very anxious plus I felt difficulty in breathing fully and evenly. I saw an opening in the reef to my right and BOLTED for the opening and went up to 100 ft rapidly, then stopped. My head cleared and I remained there for several minutes as a SS. I multil leveled for the next 20 minutes or so and finished the dive OK -another SS at 15 ft. Oh, the other divers waited several minutes to find out what my problem was but only when the DM asked where I was.
My question: did I get a build up from over-exertion at depth and that coupled with being narc'd cause/add to my panic? MY dive shop said I did not panic but managed the panic and took action to deal with it. Where they just being kind?
I was having some trouble with my main puter because it got activated on the plane and set at altitude, I did not know this till I got back home. On my first dive it was giving a different depth than my backup and what other divers had on their puters. Next dive it worked fine, it reset at sea level, and on the next few dives it did also, but it still unnerved me a bit. Two divers I was with wanted to do the Devils Throat because I had told them how great it was, I had done it twice before with no incident. They were insistent on doing the dive but I did not want to do it because of my puter problem a few days earlier. Long story shorter -I went thru first series of tunnels OK, but exited a little wider than the two divers ahead of me and got caught in a bit of current that also brought me a bit shallower than them by about 12/15 ft. At this point I was behind them and above them. I struggled to get down to them and enter next series of tunnels. I must have been breathing rapidly and got a bit of carbon minoxide/dioxide? build up. I was then at 122ft in the next series of swim thrus with a opening about 60 ft in front of me. I suddenly got a full blown case of nitrogen narcosis and got very anxious plus I felt difficulty in breathing fully and evenly. I saw an opening in the reef to my right and BOLTED for the opening and went up to 100 ft rapidly, then stopped. My head cleared and I remained there for several minutes as a SS. I multil leveled for the next 20 minutes or so and finished the dive OK -another SS at 15 ft. Oh, the other divers waited several minutes to find out what my problem was but only when the DM asked where I was.
My question: did I get a build up from over-exertion at depth and that coupled with being narc'd cause/add to my panic? MY dive shop said I did not panic but managed the panic and took action to deal with it. Where they just being kind?
