How many decompression dives do you have?

[aainslie]

Please be as accurate as you can. I personally don't keep good logs, so my own entry is a guess - but please try not to exaggerate, there isn't an attractive single cavediver of the opposite gender listening to your response...

Sorry, that should be 101 to 200, not 1-1-200. Can a moderator fix that for me please?

Edit - an early observation, Russell, looks like you were right! This is getting interesting...

[tj]

Fixed

Sorry, that should be 101 to 200, not 1-1-200.

[BabyDuck]

where's the 'less than 10' category?

[amphipod06]

there was no differentiation among cave dives and other dives so they are all grouped in the response...

Dive safe,

Celia

[NorthWoodsDiver]

Every dive is a decompression dive... so I imagine your only asking about dives requiring mandatory in water decompression stops. Just thought I would clarify in case anybody was wondering.

[netmage]

Every dive is a decompression dive... so I imagine your only asking about dives requiring mandatory in water decompression stops. Just thought I would clarify in case anybody was wondering.

Pass the k00l-aid...

[amphipod06]

Pass the k00l-aid...

LOL....pass the pop corn now...

Dive safe,

Celia

[aainslie]

Pretty interesting. I was thinking people were getting bent every 1000 or so deco dives. Looks like it's more like one every 200-400. I haven't done the math very carefully, but it's of that order. and of course that's for users of THIS board only.

That's really high.

let me do some calcs and see what i come up with - in the interim, it'd be nice to get a few more responses, the response rate here is ay lower than on the "bent" question. It'll make me happier that biases are reduced if the response rates are similar.

[apitkin]

Pretty interesting. I was thinking people were getting bent every 1000 or so deco dives. Looks like it's more like one every 200-400. I haven't done the math very carefully, but it's of that order. and of course that's for users of THIS board only.

That's really high.

let me do some calcs and see what i come up with - in the interim, it'd be nice to get a few more responses, the response rate here is ay lower than on the "bent" question. It'll make me happier that biases are reduced if the response rates are similar.

Whatever your results, they will be biased by the fact that people who have been bent are more likely to respond to a poll of this kind. I am not sure you can derive any meaningful numerical conclusions.

Andy

[cwj]

have you seen the articles indexed in PubMed? agree with the bias issue, but hard to get good diving epidemiology data. can get hits that ended up in ER or hospitals via state hospital discharge databases but problem is getting a valid denominator.

interesting rates for crude comparison are in:

Decompression illness reported in a survey of 429 recreational divers.
Klingmann C, Gonnermann A, Dreyhaupt J, Vent J, Praetorius M, Plinkert PK.
Aviat Space Environ Med. 2008 Feb;79(2):123-8.

then look at related articles.

cheers.