Have you gotten bent?

[Cali Knucklehead]

I've had two minor hits (skin bends with a little vertigo) and didn't seek treament. Both were at Ginnie with bottom times under 2 hours. So far I've been lucky and haven't had any issues diving mix in the ocean.

Bruce

[shiney]

One interesting point - the percentage for no hits has been slowly trending upwards. Since the frequency with which you look at the board will be highly correlated with your inter-visit period (well, perfectly actually), which in turn are correlated with any given inter-visit period, one might infer from this that the more often you look at this board, the more likely you are to have been bent!

LOL You may be right about this. Prior to me joining this board (2007), I've never had a hit.

Last year, I took a mild hit to my left hand a day after I doing a wreck dive on the Jodrey. The cause may have been lack of circulation due to sleeping on it all night (really!).

Scott

[atedeschi]

One interesting point - the percentage for no hits has been slowly trending upwards. Since the frequency with which you look at the board will be highly correlated with your inter-visit period (well, perfectly actually), which in turn are correlated with any given inter-visit period, one might infer from this that the more often you look at this board, the more likely you are to have been bent!

this is because the more you visit the board the less you are diving and the more you are learning how to dive online, hence not gaining real experience and training. But everthing I learned was from CDF, RBW & TDS, and Im still clean.

[MengTze]

One interesting point - the percentage for no hits has been slowly trending upwards. Since the frequency with which you look at the board will be highly correlated with your inter-visit period (well, perfectly actually), which in turn are correlated with any given inter-visit period, one might infer from this that the more often you look at this board, the more likely you are to have been bent!

'He is reaching your honor!'

[aainslie]

'He is reaching your honor!'

[Bob Cree]

Sure, diving tables or "ratio" deco. Do yourself a favor and get a computer.

Human error's a *****.

Never been bent, been diving quite a long time and I dive tables, now with a Nitek HE as backup. My tables are more conservative by design using decoplanner with 20-80 gradient factors (although I am thinking of going with more of an exponential curve gradient profile - but that is for another thread). From observation and back calculation, the HE is roughly equivalent to 80-80 gradient factor decoplanner. It usually clears within +/- a couple minutes of when my tables say time is up...meaning it took my deeper table stops into consideration and when I hit 20, it was roughly in sync...seen this time and time again, deep, medium and shallower dives, so not sure what you are saying is true unless you tend to cut tables very agressively and hang the computer on a line to clear...BTW, If the HE had more deco than the tables, I would go more conservative and wait out the computer.

I prefer to be more conservative especially due to being an old fart...like Andrew

[drtyjrzy]

Having been on the wreck hundreds of times, it didn't strike you as odd that you were making a direct ascent when normally you would have had to make a stop or two?

What sort of failure did you have on the VR3? Was it giving you erroneous information that you unknowingly followed, or did it bail on you and leave you to figure out a plan? If it's the first one, that's pretty scary!

Actually it was erroneous information, it neglected to count about 28 min of the dive. So in reality I thought I was down for about 30 min or so when in reallity it was closer to an hour. My fault for not paying attention to how long I was down.
Paule

[sskasser]

Actually it was erroneous information, it neglected to count about 28 min of the dive. So in reality I thought I was down for about 30 min or so when in reallity it was closer to an hour. My fault for not paying attention to how long I was down.
Paule

That's pretty scary. Any idea what caused the malfunction? Has it recurred?

[battles2a5]

I had some minor niggles that resolved themselves quickly without treatment, but never really considered myself "bent". Never happened in a cave, just in deep OW.

[drtyjrzy]

That's pretty scary. Any idea what caused the malfunction? Has it recurred?

According to Delta P the depth sensor went bad, I didn;t turn it on prior to jumping in and it didn't kick in for like 30 min. I normally wouldn't check the computer on a wreck like this because I know how deep I am. Anyway I still have the computer as a backup(witha new sensor) and I dive a Shearwater connected to my Inspo. as a main.