I have come to the conclusion that I have experienced some symptoms of DCS following some technical dives I've done in the past
Symtptoms were: tiredness, minor shoulder pain & 'hotness' on the back of my hands. At the time I wrote them off to other causes (denial) but now think otherwise
Typically I will do 1-2 tech dives a day, or 1 tech dive plus 1-2 rec dives. Rec being usually 20-30m and tech 45-65m
30m rec dives have usually been on EAN32, for all other dives backgas is air. On technical dives I switch to 50% at 21m and O2 at 6m. Following the completion of the 6m stop on tech dives, I switch to back gas for the 3 minute ascent to the surface
My runtimes are cut on Decoplanner 3.1.4 using VPM on '2' conservatism
I have a few ideas on making them more conservative:
1. Switch conservatism on Decoplanner to 3 or 4
2. Add deep stop(s)
3. Stay on O2 to surface
I already plan to breath O2 on the boat for 5-10 minutes after tech dives (it's there in my stage so why not), and use nitrox more for rec dives - also to avoid doing reverse profiles (which I haven't done previously, per my other recent thread)
Any thoughts on which to do and/or what do you do?
Thanks
Symtptoms were: tiredness, minor shoulder pain & 'hotness' on the back of my hands. At the time I wrote them off to other causes (denial) but now think otherwise
Typically I will do 1-2 tech dives a day, or 1 tech dive plus 1-2 rec dives. Rec being usually 20-30m and tech 45-65m
30m rec dives have usually been on EAN32, for all other dives backgas is air. On technical dives I switch to 50% at 21m and O2 at 6m. Following the completion of the 6m stop on tech dives, I switch to back gas for the 3 minute ascent to the surface
My runtimes are cut on Decoplanner 3.1.4 using VPM on '2' conservatism
I have a few ideas on making them more conservative:
1. Switch conservatism on Decoplanner to 3 or 4
2. Add deep stop(s)
3. Stay on O2 to surface
I already plan to breath O2 on the boat for 5-10 minutes after tech dives (it's there in my stage so why not), and use nitrox more for rec dives - also to avoid doing reverse profiles (which I haven't done previously, per my other recent thread)
Any thoughts on which to do and/or what do you do?
Thanks