Talk:Scuba diving
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I am currently completely redoing this article, so some articles may be deleted. Thank you, --Tvaughn 23:54, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
Can someone please remove the arrows in the History Section? Thanks. --Tvaughn 00:21, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Discussion
Statements as the one that said narcosis could be controlled by someone, refer to what might happen in one case over some thousands (and I personally have in mind only one lucky case, in which an athlete was able to inflate his equilibre jacket - GAV - to reach the surface again from -75, but it has not been cleared yet if this was made volountarily).
Please, be wise in not creating false myths in a subject that has many references to death. Objectively, scuba diving can be dangerous if rules are not respected, and what in that sentence was completely out of a reasonable mature mentality of immersion.
Also, it might be advisable to specify that single "special scores" are not meant available to anyone's attempts. Records are achieved by highly athletic individuals, not by ordinary people.
"Leonardo da Vinci affirmed in his Atlantic Code (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan) that [etc.]."
Should it not rather be "Atlantic Codex"?
S.
- Atlanticus Codex in Latin (Codex Atlanticus is the Italian habit for modern use of Latin and - perhaps - how it is classified in librarians' style, but it's a little less pure), Atlantic Code in English.
- Choose one :-) [G]
This page still needs some work. There is big difference between decompression sickness (the bends), nitrogen narcosis, and various emboli that can be sustained by rapid decompression. I'll work on it.
--Bob Jonkman, ACUC Level II instructor 903EA
I am very suspicious of the information in here. I think someone with minimal knowledge just wrote what they thought. I have corrected some of the more glaring errors. Someone with more detailed knowledge really needs to work on this. Bob Jonkman, are you still there? DJ Clayworth 14:49, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
(P.S. does anyone actually have examples of people diving from kayaks, or ocean liners?)
SirScuba, do you have a reference for 'diving has fewer deaths than bowling'? It seems unlikely, simply because I find it hard to imagine a way in which you can kill someone while bowling.
Also, whoever is doing this, you need to leave a space after the external link before the closing bracket, or the external link doesn't work i.e. you need to write (mypage.html ) not (mypage.html). DJ Clayworth 17:57, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
reply from sirscuba
dive kayaks http://www.sonic.net/~rocky/kayaks.htm Ocean liners - there was a cruise ship "ocean spirit" ? that catered to divers, they launched inflatables to take the divers to the sites. I think they stop operation several years ago.
A few years ago a study was done, after crunching the numbers bowling was more dangerous than scuba, i see if i can find a link. Heart attack, choaking on food, slipping and falls, smoking, drinking, fights all happen at bowling alleys. I'll bet the number of death due to contact with a bowling ball are small.
I removed 'embolia' from the list of diseases because it turns out that medically 'embolia' means The reduction of a limb dislocation (http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=embolia&action=Search+OMD)] and is not the plural of embolism. Since I'm not sure that embolism was what the original author meant, I'm taking it out.
SirScuba, I think the quote about bowling is misleading. For a start you need to say per thousand what (per thousand hours spent doing the sport? per thousand people taking part?). I think it's also obvious to everybody that for any given person they are more likely to die from an hour spent doing Scuba than from an hour spent bowling. Insurance companies, who are usually very good at working out the statistics of these things, put scuba in a higher danger category than bowling (higher also than golf, basketball and jogging). Most of them put scuba in the same category as things like white water rafting and American Football, but lower than say hang-gliding or luge. Even then there is a depth limit of 25m. DJ Clayworth 15:58, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)
For "obstruction", the singular is embolus and the plural is emboli. Anthony Appleyard 14:23, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
OK - i removed the bowling reference & added verbage to the "death" comment
