clownfishsydney
Contributor
I have done just over 4,000 dives and while I have obviously been narked on hundreds (say all my over 900 dives deeper than 30 metres), the only really bad experience I had was once diving to 48 metres (just under 170 feet) I experienced tunnel vision and an inability to read my computer or pressure gauge. I relaxed and breathed slowly and it got better, but I never went more than a few metres from the anchor before I decided to cut short the dive and ascend. On dives to 70 metres I knew I was thinking very slow, but that was about it.
Certainly like drinking alcohol, the more you do it the better you are able to take this into account and even handle it, even though technically you are as affected as a novice.
Certainly like drinking alcohol, the more you do it the better you are able to take this into account and even handle it, even though technically you are as affected as a novice.