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Let me add one thing... I just read the original printing date... about 20 years ago... that could be why this was - back then, many instructors were left to make up their own skills as not nearly as much guidance was given by training institutions... So, I can understand how that happened, and hope it would not happen in todays training environment. That all being said - dealing with active panic like that is very common, especially when you...

Quote: Originally Posted by mitsuguy there was a recent study done where non divers were given three different descriptions and briefings on the effects of nitrogen at depth, ie, narcosis... from what I recall, group 1 was given a basic description - factors to watch for, depths it should affect you at, etc; group 2 was given a little more information, even a short lecture about its possible effects and information from other related studies;...

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Quote: Originally Posted by ianr33 Quote: Originally Posted by MSilvia "Darc narc" is sort of the "bad trip" of narcosis. Not the usual scatterbrianed euphoria, but a very "bad" feeling of isolation, helplessness, and/or impending doom. Kind of like the "bad feeling" some folks occasionally call a dive for, but magnified significantly by narcosis. Thats a good...

Quote: Originally Posted by nefiii I decided to match my breathing to the TEC instructor's rate, breath for breath. Dark, cold, deep, new... I became anxious and felt a sense of impending doom. No wonder, I was not breathing often enough and was feeling winded. I realized that I could not match the TEC instructor's breathing rate, so now I'm huffing and puffing away at my reg, breathing down my air trying to get...

My experience with being narc'd has come from making some really bad diving decisions, in the past, that aren't to be repeated now that I have become wiser. Traveling on a liveaboard, thru the Bahamas, the Captain's son and I made deep bounce dives on a regular basis. One particular occassion remains very vivid in my mind and made me realize that what we were doing was very stupid and potentionally deadly. On this particular...

So far I have only been down to 120 feet, but I have never felt anything different on any of my dives. Maybe I'm just not aware of the changes in myself, but there certainly hasn't been any different feeling.

Quote: Originally Posted by mitsuguy I do not feel the effects of narcosis at 130', nor deeper... That's cool. Personally, I don't feel the effects of intoxication from 6 or more tequila drinks. YMMV.

Battle Royale (Renamed by NAUI to This Could Happen To You) by Larry "Harris" Taylor, Ph.D. <B><I><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: MS Mincho"><FONT size=2 face=Arial> This is an electronic reprint of an article that appeared in NAUI NEWS (Mar/Apr. 1989, 39-40) under the title This Could Happen To You. This material...

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