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Depth narcosis
Jul. 21st, 2006 04:46 pmI've been reading about oxygen toxicity and oxygen narcosis as a side note to looking for information about oxygen narcosis in diving with mixed gases. It's VERY mathy & medical & biochemical, OSHA has detailed regs for commericial divers, and the funniest (and possibly most practical) article has a graph plotting the feeling of consuming 1-10 beers crossed with atmospheres of depth.
Experiential descriptions of depth narcosis interest me. Nitrogen narcosis, rapture of the deep, is warned about during Open Water (first dive cert class). Open water certifies you to dive to 60 feet. To go to max. recreational depth (130 ft.), during the next cert class level, you must to perform tasks at various depths on the way to 130 ft., where we are to observe how much more difficult they become at depth. In my experience, being at depth didn't seem all that different except for cognizance of how, bottom line, it minimizes the max time you can spend underwater.
Here's an improbable but common description: "Divers suffering nitrogen narcosis have been observed taking the regulator out of their mouth and handing it to a fish!" It's so afterschool special.
Here's early J. Cousteau about the aqualung, "I am personally quite receptive to nitrogen rapture. I like it and fear it like doom. It destroys the instinct of life. Tough individuals are not overcome as soon as neurasthenic persons like me, but they have difficulty extricating themselves. Intellectuals get drunk early and suffer acute attacks on all the senses, which demand hard fighting to overcome." Shades of diagnosing humors! It's improbable that a reaction to depth narcosis can also be a barometer of the type of person and thinker one is.
I can't find it now, and am out of time to hunt for it again, but one article got me thinking that the awe and beauty and peace that I feel looking up to the sun sparkling down through clear tropical waters might not all be the joy of diving; some could be an tinge of being narced.
And, in other news, DAN is now available on-line in Spanish & Portugese. Cool beans!
http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/index.asp
Experiential descriptions of depth narcosis interest me. Nitrogen narcosis, rapture of the deep, is warned about during Open Water (first dive cert class). Open water certifies you to dive to 60 feet. To go to max. recreational depth (130 ft.), during the next cert class level, you must to perform tasks at various depths on the way to 130 ft., where we are to observe how much more difficult they become at depth. In my experience, being at depth didn't seem all that different except for cognizance of how, bottom line, it minimizes the max time you can spend underwater.
Here's an improbable but common description: "Divers suffering nitrogen narcosis have been observed taking the regulator out of their mouth and handing it to a fish!" It's so afterschool special.
Here's early J. Cousteau about the aqualung, "I am personally quite receptive to nitrogen rapture. I like it and fear it like doom. It destroys the instinct of life. Tough individuals are not overcome as soon as neurasthenic persons like me, but they have difficulty extricating themselves. Intellectuals get drunk early and suffer acute attacks on all the senses, which demand hard fighting to overcome." Shades of diagnosing humors! It's improbable that a reaction to depth narcosis can also be a barometer of the type of person and thinker one is.
I can't find it now, and am out of time to hunt for it again, but one article got me thinking that the awe and beauty and peace that I feel looking up to the sun sparkling down through clear tropical waters might not all be the joy of diving; some could be an tinge of being narced.
And, in other news, DAN is now available on-line in Spanish & Portugese. Cool beans!
http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/index.asp