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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Certainly you shouldn't be flying within 24 hours of diving in any case. Some claim that 12 hours is fine, however, with the change of pressure you run a serious risk of nitrogen, or in the case of TriMix divers-Helium, being liberated from the soft tisdsue and entering the circulatory system or collecting next to a nerve.
It is the individual's choice but the risks involve the possibility of serious nerve damage, being permanently crippled, brain damage or just spending the first few days back in the UK bored out of your head in a recompression facility wasting everybodies valuable time.
It is true that the TriMix kids will have foreced more dissolved gas out of their system by breathing a high partial pressure oxygen mix or even 100% oxygen but on the other hand helium is more damaging than nitrogen if it does decide to go walkabout within a body.
Is life in a wheelchair a price wirth paying for an extra morning in the water?