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Re: Optimum pressure caveats II

Posted by Sleepyhead on February 13, 2003 at 15:47:09:

In Reply to: Re: Optimum pressure caveats II posted by SGS on February 13, 2003 at 11:55:23:

Thanks for your insight. Just out of curiosity are you in the medical field? I would think from your obvious knowledge in this subject.

Your blood O2 after 2 minutes is great. Do you have any idea if passing out would be cause by high CO2 or low O2? I know through repeated breath hold dives you would build up lots of CO2. I had an experience wreck diving years ago. We were doing repetitive no decompression dives at 90 feet. I was getting splitting headaches at depth and very slow recovery during the surface interval before the next dive. These headaches were much worse than the type from OSA. I learned I was breathing too shallow so i could bottom time. This resulted in high CO2 debt causing the headaches. Slower deep breathing with full, cleansing exhales solved the problem the next day and probably saved millions of brain cells if not my life. Sorry that story was a little off subject but it shows how simply breathing the wrong way can effect you.

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