Thought it might be interesting to run a survey of people's experiences with DCS on the board. I appreciate some people may not fit exactly into one of the options - just do your best.
Personal experiences of DCS - poll
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The Chairman
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Me too!
While diving Niihau HI, I watched as a diver from Germany followed a monk seal up from around 100' to the surface, all the while snapping away with his camera. It was not a good time watching that guy in agony knowing the nearest chamber was several hours away.
I don't really know how to answer. The first time I went to Nanaimo was the first time I dove a deep (100 fsw) square profile. That night, I had several odd-looking pink-purple stripes on the back of my left shoulder. They looked a little like bruises, but they were gone in the morning. They did not itch, and I don't know whether I had a very minor skin bend or not. (I did a good minimum deco ascent with no control issues, and did not exceed planned bottom time.) I have since done extra deco time when I do deep, square profiles, and have never had anything like this. I should mention that I stood for quite a while with doubles on before the dives.
ianr33
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Have had a buddy do a chamber ride after a type I hit.
Can think of 2 dives where I was unduly tired afterwards,I believe I was getting close on those.
Can think of 2 dives where I was unduly tired afterwards,I believe I was getting close on those.
ucfdiver
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I had a dive buddy take a table 6 with 2 extensions after a dive we did together, but have not yet been bent myself.
cloudflint
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One of the guys I dive with had a mild hit after being invited to dive with the navy back in the 60's or so. Apparently they told him the bests thing to do was to go up and down really fast repeatedly 
Apart from that nobody in the dive club im in has ever had a DCS hit in 48 years of diving, despite the fact we still dive using the old BSAC-RNPL tables based on the ones the old brass helmet divers used to use and calculated by chucking in divers and recording how long it took them to get bent
Apart from that nobody in the dive club im in has ever had a DCS hit in 48 years of diving, despite the fact we still dive using the old BSAC-RNPL tables based on the ones the old brass helmet divers used to use and calculated by chucking in divers and recording how long it took them to get bent 
scubafire
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Forgive this if it is too off topic....
If someone gets bent but doesnt go to a deco chamber...will the body eventually deco on its own? Or will they continue in pain until they make it to a chamber?
If someone gets bent but doesnt go to a deco chamber...will the body eventually deco on its own? Or will they continue in pain until they make it to a chamber?
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