| Facts:
Women & Diving |
- Women are as
physiologically capable of diving as men.
- Women are more
susceptible to hypothermia than men.
- Women are not more
prone to heat exhaustion than men.
- Sharks are not
attracted to menstrual discharge.
- Women are not more
prone to decompression sickness than men.
- Women can handle
stressful situations as well as men.
- Women should not
dive while pregnant.
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| Facts:
Diving & your voice box |
- There is no such
thing as a "dry drowning"
- An unconscious
diver, being brought to the surface, will not experience
lung over expansion injuries due to laryngospasms.
- People who
commonly experience laryngospasms should consult a doctor
familiar with dive medicine before attempting scuba.
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| Facts:
The U.S. Navy Dive Tables |
- The Navy tables do
not have a "built-in" 5 percent DCS incident
rate. Actually, the incidence rate for the version of the
tables released to the public was 0.
- The Navy tables
were tested on a variety of men; not just young, highly
fit divers.
- Diving is as
statistically as safe as bowling.
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| Facts:
Statistical analysis of "the bends" |
- Pain is not
necessarily the only symptom of DCS.
- Recompression
therapy may not completely cure DCS.
- Multiple-day
diving, dives below 80 feet (24 meters), and rapid ascents
all seem to increase a diver's chance of encountering
"the bends."
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