Pre-Op question-Scuba

[hopefull loser 0]

Will the LB permit me to scuba dive again when I'm able? I wouldn't want the change in pressure to cause problems. Thank you in advance!

[Kat817 19]

I believe it is Wheetsin that is a scuba diver, and has mentioned this. Try searching for Scuba diving---see if you can bring up the old posts. Search key is top & center....

Hope it helps you find something, I will ask her if I see her on today.

Welcome to LBT & good luck on your surgery!

Kat

[hopefull loser 0]

Thank you! I'm off to do the search now!

[LeeInDe. 0]

Let me know if you find it. I am curious about that one............

[megan 0]

altitude (flying) , or lack thereof (scuba), has no affect on your band.

i've been diving several times since banding with no problems.

m

[flabuless 18]

Wow! I would love to scuba!! maybe that can be my 200lb treat...something to look forward too.

becky

[Wheetsin 714]

Yes, you can scuba post band. I called Inamed and spoke with them about a few times. I got two different answers. Once I was told it's completely safe, but advised not to go beyond 60ft (I have a deep diving specialty under my advanced cert) and once I was told that anything down to recreational depth would be fine. I asked them specifically about the integrity of the band under increased atmospheres and they said it wouldn't be a problem. Any gas would just be compressed, and on surfacing would only expand to its normal size, so that wouldn't be an issue.

Hope this helps.

[Wheetsin 714]

Flabuless, if you want to scuba, do it now. Don't let weight hold you back. I dived as much as 80lbs heavier than I am now, and I know I was not a pretty sight out there in my wetsuit, but who cares. Don't deny yourself the experience because you haven't hit the weight you want. Just bring lots of weights.

[faithmd 14]

That was always the thing for me, the TONS of weights :welldoneclap: One time in Mexico the guys in the boat tried to get me to climb into it with my belt still on, wasn't going to happen! :Banane20:

I am so glad to read about deeper dives being okay. I haven't been down in years but traveling and diving again is a big impetus for me to lose weight. I work with a woman who teaches (so I'll take a refresher from her) and also ice dives in rivers. That's something I've always wanted to do, ice dive (forget the river, though). I also want to cave dive, but realize that it's a challenge when you are a bigger girth, though I loved cavern diving at night for langostinas in Puerto Vallarta!.

[Wheetsin 714]

All the weights I had to wear really made it a serious workout to get to the dive site, and back out of the Water. Especially ocean dives (ocean water = higher salinity = more bouyancy -- not what fat divers need). I did a cave dive once that I wasn't really supposed to do (:paranoid). I'm not claustrophobic, but I do like knowing I can go up if I have a problem.

I've assisted on a few salvage dives, and accompanied more than assistted on one (body) recovery dive. :speechles I don't think I'll do that again.

I thought about pursuing my instructor cert, but I just have no time.

[hopefull loser 0]

Thanks Wheetsin, I appreciate the input. I did a search and found your other diving threads and got my answers but just checked back today. What do you mean by "(body) recovery dive?" What do you do to do 'that'???

[LeeInDe. 0]

We have a dive team here, and I was asked to take the classes to get up to the Rescue Diver. Have not done that yet, but even with all I have seen, I really have no desire to be the one that comes face to face with that body under the water!

I think I will be the guy that stays in the boat, marking off the area.........