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I agree, she had to be the nicest person on this board. The only person she was ever openly critical of - was herself.
She seemed to make a point of talking about her two biggest challenges: a very pronounced susceptibility to vertigo when presented with no visual reference and a seemingly unusually low tolerance for narcosis, which if I understood her various posts, made her very reluctant to dive more than just 100 feet without the benefit of helium in the mix.
It sounds like more people are FINALLY giving these two issues the consideration they deserve with respect to potential relevance to her fatality.
Many members seem to envision her as a very strong and capable diver. From my perspective, these two issues represent serious weaknesses (or at least vulnerabilities) when functioning in a high current, drift dive situation with no visual references and when drifting in water that she knew would cause her significant narcosis.
I agree, she had to be the nicest person on this board. The only person she was ever openly critical of - was herself.
She seemed to make a point of talking about her two biggest challenges: a very pronounced susceptibility to vertigo when presented with no visual reference and a seemingly unusually low tolerance for narcosis, which if I understood her various posts, made her very reluctant to dive more than just 100 feet without the benefit of helium in the mix.
It sounds like more people are FINALLY giving these two issues the consideration they deserve with respect to potential relevance to her fatality.
Many members seem to envision her as a very strong and capable diver. From my perspective, these two issues represent serious weaknesses (or at least vulnerabilities) when functioning in a high current, drift dive situation with no visual references and when drifting in water that she knew would cause her significant narcosis.
I agree, she had to be the nicest person on this board. The only person she was ever openly critical of - was herself.
She seemed to make a point of talking about her two biggest challenges: a very pronounced susceptibility to vertigo when presented with no visual reference and a seemingly unusually low tolerance for narcosis, which if I understood her various posts, made her very reluctant to dive more than just 100 feet without the benefit of helium in the mix.
Lynne was a strong and capable diver who managed her Vertigo Handicap intrepidly & valiantly all these years. It makes prudent sense that she would try to minimize Narcosis in order to avoid further compounding problems should she experience Vertigo during a dive. I think she deserved kudos and sympathy as such rather than the cold reproach from you DumpsterDiver. . .It sounds like more people are FINALLY giving these two issues the consideration they deserve with respect to potential relevance to her fatality.
Many members seem to envision her as a very strong and capable diver. From my perspective, these two issues represent serious weaknesses (or at least vulnerabilities) when functioning in a high current, drift dive situation with no visual references and when drifting in water that she knew would cause her significant narcosis.
We are all Lynne Flaherty's Advocates, here on ScubaBoard for these past Ten Years. Thankful for her honesty, insight & wisdom; honoring her Memory & Sacrifice, cognitively & emotionally coming to understand & accept her Passing if it was to be by Dive Accident . . .(I'm sure she would have wanted it that way).1) Vertigo -cannot orient or discern up from down; followed by 2) CO2 Retention & Narcosis, Dyspnea & Exertion Hypercapnia brought on by fighting the strong downcurrent; and then 3) final encroachment upon Eanx32 MOD/Ox-Tox limits in an uncontrolled descent.
This is a potential worst case scenario of an overwhelming set of cascading problems that will quickly incapacitate a lone buddy-separated diver: If victim cannot recover & stabilize in time from 1) and 2) above, resulting in stupor or loss of consciousness --then it is just a matter of a few minutes before final Ox-Tox Seizure in 3). . .
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