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Not direclty related to the incident, but be aware that ANY kind of dive and profile can induce both barotrauma and/or DCI. There is no 100% safe profile.
I am not sure what you mean by DCI. Typically, DCS refers specifically to decompression sickness. DCI refers to both DCS and lung overexpansion injuries.

A thread a year or so ago included reference to a study showing that work done with saturation divers indicated that all tissues fully saturated at depths shallower than 20 feet/6 meters can surface safely. That indicates that for DCS at least, there really is a safe depth, although not one typically typically dived. Barotrauma can happen pretty much anywhere.
 
@boulderjohn Thanks for the info! I even asked them yesterday how much a treatment in a chamber would cost and if my insurance would pay for it, however, they couldn't respond to that. But it is equally interesting to hear what you said about the studies you saw.
 
Not direclty related to the incident, but be aware that ANY kind of dive and profile can induce both barotrauma and/or DCI. There is no 100% safe profile. The profiles you showed do not seem particularily agressiv, but also don't "downplay" the frequent dives to "only" 30 m the days before.
Any nowadays 7 day Safari the way they are conducted are all pushing the limits somewhat. When I learned back in the according CMAS the recommendation was not doing more than 2 dives a day and not more than 3 consecutive days. Both those recommendations are blatantly ignored with the "standard" Red Sea Safari week. Usually it is 3 to even 4 dives a day depending on the and for sure 6 consecutive days. So the divers body is accumulatings substantial ongassing particularily in the medium and slow compartments. There is simply no model and no study that in a scientific frame ever ventured in such prolonged inert gas exposure (other than saturation diving in commercial diving, but that is a complete different venue).
So having said that on a Safari everyone is prone to DCI no matter how subjectively or objectively the profiles have been "conservative".
Then on the bright side. The track record of the Safaris is pretty good as well as in, people are not going to the chamber on a regular basis, it still is more the exception, so it seems to work fairly ok, depite the lack of scientific backup.
I would still think that there might be a fair amount of not severe, mild cases that go frequently undetected as a certain degree of denial and normalisation is just human and Safaris are fun. I used to go four even five times per year in my rec diving "prime"
Also to consider is that particularily at Red Sea Safaris and more prone in Summer there definitely is a very high correlation to DCS when not properly hydrated. So another factor to keep an eye out.
From what you describe I also do not think that there was DCS involved, there is a residual chance though. So definately worth some more checkups and involving a diving medicine specialist rather than your GP

If there was DCI involved then by now any manifested bubble should be capsuled by now. So a chamber treatment will not be effective as well.
I did have balance and ear issues in the past due to a prolonged late detected likely DCS. A lot what you describe reminds me of it. It was never determined 100% but whether it is just "regular vertigo" (for a lack of better term) treatment or if caused by DCS the treatment will be the same. It is a Cortisone IV followed by phasing out with Cortinsone tablets. Thats what they did in my case and it helped tremendously. after the first IV it was like the brain fog was lifted and I experienced a new world which had become somewhat dull due to getting used to the constant disturbance that had affected myself.

The only fall out was after I was treated. For quite several years I did actually very moation sensitive and was seasick on a boat after that for the first time of my life. It got better over the years but was very unusual initially

Go to an inner ear specialist and take it from there! Fingers crossed on your recovery!
@Nitrogenius : Danke! I'm aware that any dive can be risky. And to be honest, this practice of Red Sea safaris you've describes is exactly what I've encountered. 3x dives per day, I fortunately skipped one after the first 40m dive I had described. In the future - hopefully I'll be able to go again on a safari - I'll make sure to reduce daily dives to 2x per day as it was also suggested yesterday at the decompression chamber center, just to be more assured. Even though I checked again my safari dives and about 60% of those 18 dives didn't go deeper than 20 m, 30% down to 30 m, and then the remaining 2 ones down to 40 m, but even those - as shown in the dive profiles on page 1.

Re the risk of a decompression accident. Having said the above, I'm happy to hear that also you think the likelihood for a decompression accident is rather low, but obviously can't be ruled out.

I'm starting a MdDS treatment in two days, which will hopefully help. For those people interested, it is called Mount Sinai. I will also try to see the mentioned ENT who is also a diving physician next week and ask him about the Cortisone IV treatment you've mentioned. @Nitrogenius can I ask you the question how long this took you to fully recover from the mild decompression accident you described, if you fully recovered.
 
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