Flying after diving – DDRC needs your help

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“Flying After Diving” is the latest topic in DDRC Healthcare's Health of Divers research project – and the charity, which specialises in diving and hyperbaric medicine, is seeking feedback from UK recreational divers via an online questionnaire.

The research programme has been running for eight years, gathering data on such issues as illicit drug use, alcohol and cardiac and mental health among divers. 

Since the 1980s there has been much debate about flying after diving, says DDRC, with case reports discussed and recommended times to fly debated. In 2015 the results of the first in-flight study of real-life dive exposures was published.

Hyperbaric chambers often treat divers who have returned from a diving holiday with possible decompression-illness problems, according to DDRC. It wants to find out more about aspects such as the type of diving carried out, the actual surface interval between the last dive and the flight, signs and symptoms of possible DCI experienced during the flight, whether the diver sought help, whether the problems passed, and what was suspected to be the cause.

Divers do not have to have experienced any problems before, during or after a flight to participate, stresses DDRC. The organisation says it needs to hear from as many UK divers as possible, and the questionnaire is anonymous.

If you have dived and then caught a flight, have your log-book to hand and take part in the survey here

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