To Exercise or Not to Excercise After a Dive? June 30, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : Decompression, Uncategorized , 1 comment so farWithin my technical diving training and spending many hours reading medical texts, I have always thought the general concensus is that exercising before a dive is fine, but exercising after a dive is a big no no, and empirically I have felt this myself. Whenever I simply chill out and make special efforts not to do anything representing exercise after a dive I have felt better than those times where I have immediately jumped up and hurried around the boat tidying kit away and lifting cylinders about. Obviously me ‘feeling’ better has nothing to do with the bubbles in my system, but it is generally accepted that you could create or aggravate any bubbles by exercising too much after a dive.
Well, this piece of research now suggests that strenuous exercise after dive also reduces bubble formation, therefore turning the whole theory on its head.
Dive 2006: UK’s Birmingham Dive Show Returns This Fall June 29, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : News , add a commentDive 2006 is coming to Birmingham, UK, on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th October 2006. From the website they expect to house over 300 suppliers.
The popular Dive Show free presentation program will feature many of the sport’s top names, and the popular Try Dive and Rebreather pools will again provide the opportunity for visitors to get hands-on experience. And, if you want to take a step back into our diving past, the popular Historical Diving Society’s display should be on your itinerary…
Tickets to Dive 2006 will be available to buy online and via the ticket hotline from July 2006. Tickets cost £7.50 if booked in advance and £10.50 on the door. Each advance ticket order will receive a free Show Guide (worth £2.00). To learn more, visit: Birmingham Dive Show 2006
Dive bids to solve wreck mystery June 29, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : WreckDiving , add a commentThere is some confusion being created by the Caithness Diving club up in Scapa Flow, as they claim to have found a wreck which shouldn’t be there. The V81, which was at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, was raised in 1937 after foundering off the Caithness coast, but the members of the diving club say that they have found it still on the seabed;
From the BBC;
Baby dolphins sleep while swimming June 29, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : Trivia , add a commentI have heard of scuba divers sleeping whilst on deco, and I have seen many scuba divers asleep ten minutes after getting back onboard the dive boat, but that is nothing compared to baby dolphins, who regularly sleep whilst swimming, says an Italian research team;
“During their first year of life, young bottlenose dolphins sleep exclusively while swimming and, like all young mammals, have irregular sleep patterns, distributed both through the day and at night, for around 12 hours in total,” said the research team, Guido Gnone, Tiziana Moriconi and Giorgia Gambini .
“As they grow older, dolphins tend to reduce their hours of daytime sleep, while night sleep stabilizes at seven to eight hours .
“This development in sleep patterns reflects that of land mammals, including that of human beings” .
The study overturns the findings of research published last year by US and Russian experts, which concluded that the constant movement of newborn dolphins and their mothers meant the mammals were barely sleeping .
New Thai reef is Garbage June 29, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : Conservation, News , 1 comment so farTHAILAND has dumped 189 old garbage trucks off its southern coast in a bid to build an artificial reef to lure fish for local fishermen.
The trucks, once used to collect refuse in the sprawling Thai capital Bangkok, were dropped into the Gulf of Thailand, about 5.5 km from the southern province of Pattani.
Under a project initiated by Thailand’s queen in 2002, everything from concrete pillars to old rail cars have been dumped at 47 sites in the waters off southern Thailand.
Fishery Department official Rangsan Chayakul said about 43 species of fish are now living around these artificial reefs, up from 15 species before.
“The reef will protect shallow-water fishermen from high waves and give them a good source of income,” he said.
There is no news as to whether they cleaned the trucks up first, or whether the reef is suitable for diving.
Good Samaritan saves life of Scuba Diver June 28, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : Accidents , 2commentsA short news item at kfmb highlights the perils of diving alone, and the willingness of passersby to step up to the mark when the brown stuff hits the fan. A female scuba diver was seen to be struggling alone by two Kayakers who dragged her into shore. A former lifeguard, Christian Tuskes, then stepped in and effectively saved her life. Where was her buddy? What buddy.
“When we brought her in, she wasn’t breathing at all,” said good samaritan Christian Tuskes. “Her face was blue, hands were blue, tried to do CPR on her.”
Victoria Einhorn saw it all from her hotel balcony.
“Today when people are so afraid to step in, this guy didn’t even know her, and he was such a hero,” Einhorn said.
“I was checking for a pulse, and it seemed like the compressions were working,” Tuskes said. “There was more and more water coming out of her mouth.”
