Long after the jet lag and the first day back to work, you slip into your favorite dive T-shirt eager to keep the essence of your most recent underwater experience pulsing through your mind and body. Proudly wearing large print logos across your chest is a way of celebrating your passion for diving and sharing it with the rest of the world.
Experience of life suggests that anything which is fun tends to be either illegal, immoral, fattening or dangerous. Recreational diving partly conforms to this universal law, ranking below hang gliding and parachuting but above most sports in regards to the risk of a fatal accident.
Breathing hyperbaric air causes a syndrome of behavioral and subjective effects called nitrogen narcosis, which limits the work efficiency of divers and is ultimately life-threatening.
Chronological age and physiological age can differ markedly, and each individual ticks to his own genetic clock.
Text: Scuba Doc
An article in ‘Alert Diver’ has brought some debate about the side bar containing information about not diving while using marijuana and is based on the following information and references:
To my knowledge, there are no studies on the use of marijuana and diving.
