‘Safety & Medical’ Archives
Decompression Illness/Sickness (DCI/DCS)
What is DCI? The air you breath from your cylinder (as you should remember from your initial dive training!) is about 78% nitrogen. As you dive and the ambient pressure increases, some of that nitrogen is absorbed into your cells (I’m not going into partial pressures here, I’ll save that for another day!). As you release the pressure [...]
Diving with a Period
One thing that seems to worry women above all else is the possibility of a shark attack when we are on our period while diving! Personally, I had never even thought about it - and I was diving in the Red Sea with a period one year. So we'll talk about that, and we'll also discuss increased risk of DCI/DCS (decompression illness/sickness), [...]
