My boss had an episode on Christmas Eve. He still hasn't told me yet, but his son told me they were sitting at the dining table and all the sudden his dad turned a pale gray / green color, his eyes rolled back and to the left then his body started twisting out of the chair, completely incoherent. Friend said if he didn't catch his Dad that he would have fell into their china cabinet. Friend thought his dad was dying in his arms! Paramedics came first thing they asked was if he was vaxed and then was treating it like a death and had the whole neighborhood blocked off. Friends dad spent a day in the hospital and the prognosis was dehydration / fatigue (yea right). Soooooo, now friends dad is out to prove to everyone he's perfectly healthy and has been backcountry skiing every single day since this happened. Now he's going scuba diving next week! Apparently the whole family is worried it is gonna happen again, and have been fighting him tooth and nail to not scuba dive and to not ski alone.
Anyone else have something like this happen to their friends or family?
There have been lots of videos that popped up, about a month ago, of people twisting around as if they saw something invisible, and then having fits and falling down. Not sure if this is the same as that.
The Denial is very strong with this guy, though.
...the SCUBA diving takes the cake under these circumstances.
He should up the ante on the altitude before the compression by doing some wingsuit proximity flying because blacking out during that won't hurt either and back country skiing is not high enough.
Sail
That's a great idea! lol. He skis above treeline every day. I never thought of the extreme altitude differences as well as difference in pressures. whoah.
Someone who SCUBA dives would be taught about these dangers during the course.
He is acting in a stupidly cocksure manner.
I used to fly light planes but never jumped out of one.
Respect !
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