Linda's rambling

From old forum-thread (with some of my own words mixed in) from 2002 about that divers might get less blood in brain and therefore risks getting minimal brain damage.

Theory one: Gender balance

Fact 1: There are more male divers than female divers.

Fact 2: Divers like and strives for big apparatus/things.

Fact 3: Divers have as much blood as the next man.

Fact 4: A male diver can get a hard on just by seeing a calm ocean on a sunny day.

Conclusion: Big things/apparatus + not much blood + often hard on => brain damage, so easy to understand, completely natural!

Another theory followed that one:

Slow thinking due to brain damage causes panic to come slower. That’s why experienced divers handle panic situations better, they’ve dived so much they’ve gotten so brain damaged that they are to slow in thought to panic!

Protest against theory about diving causing minimal brain damage:

You’re probably already brain damaged if you start diving. I mean, considering what stuff weights, how many hours used to take care of it and transport to and from for just short time diving and what it costs you gotta be mad even to consider the thought. Like, what normal person would thousands for a flash-light for example!

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