Hocky
Contributor
Hi All
Sadly there was a diving death here in Sydney yesterday. A 26 year old man had a heart attack at 12m and died before reaching the surface.
I was at the site and helped get him ashore but there was little that we could do as his heart had already stopped beating. There is speculation that he had taken some sort of recreational drug (drugs) the night before and was still suffering the effects when he went diving some hours later.
Maybe Dr Deco could answer this question, but it seems that drugs and depth don't mix and sadly this time around it resulted in a divers death. Is there a direct correlation between drugs, any drugs, be it recreational or medical and depth?
If the answer to this is yes then should we be advising divers before we teach courses and take people diving that if they have taken any kind of drugs they shouldn't dive? Its easy to say if you are using drugs then you should use common sense...people don't, but as an Instructor I don't really want the responsibility of someone ODing down there
because in this senario you really have no control whatsoever.
Does anyone have any thoughs on this and has anyone ever dived with anyone on drugs?
Hocky
Sadly there was a diving death here in Sydney yesterday. A 26 year old man had a heart attack at 12m and died before reaching the surface.
I was at the site and helped get him ashore but there was little that we could do as his heart had already stopped beating. There is speculation that he had taken some sort of recreational drug (drugs) the night before and was still suffering the effects when he went diving some hours later.
Maybe Dr Deco could answer this question, but it seems that drugs and depth don't mix and sadly this time around it resulted in a divers death. Is there a direct correlation between drugs, any drugs, be it recreational or medical and depth?
If the answer to this is yes then should we be advising divers before we teach courses and take people diving that if they have taken any kind of drugs they shouldn't dive? Its easy to say if you are using drugs then you should use common sense...people don't, but as an Instructor I don't really want the responsibility of someone ODing down there
because in this senario you really have no control whatsoever.
Does anyone have any thoughs on this and has anyone ever dived with anyone on drugs?
Hocky