New issue from the Underwater Journal

In case you haven’t heard, issue eight of the Underwater Journal is now available for download.

This time around, our good friend Doug Ebersole provided two very worthy reads - one on the excitement of diving the Windjammer wreck in Bonaire, and the subject of Diabetes and diving.

To be expected, this latest edition is jam packed with other informative articles that you will likely enjoy.

So in the spirit of things - Dive Dive Dive!

And don’t forget to tell a friend!

In case you haven’t heard, issue eight of the Underwater Journal is now available for download.

 

This time around, our good friend Doug Ebersole provided two very worthy reads - one on the excitement of diving the Windjammer wreck in Bonaire, and the subject of Diabetes and diving.

 

To be expected, this latest edition is jam packed with other informative articles that you will likely enjoy.

 

So in the spirit of things - Dive Dive Dive!

And don’t forget to tell a friend!

At the recent American Diabetes Meeting in San Francisco there was a very interesting poster on T1 diabetes (the bad kind) and diving. Several dozen diabetic divers in Sweden (it looked cold) actually used continuous glucose monitoring to measure their blood sugar continuously while diving. The upshot was pretty much that if you are in good control and take good care, then diving should be available to you. I think Doug wrote a pretty good balanced article. On the other hand, I dove with a guy who had T1 diabetes and he had a major hypoglycemia event (fortunately on the boat not in the water) and if it had happened 30 minutes later he surely would have drowned.

Bill

At the recent American Diabetes Meeting in San Francisco there was a very interesting poster on T1 diabetes (the bad kind) and diving. Several dozen diabetic divers in Sweden (it looked cold) actually used continuous glucose monitoring to measure their blood sugar continuously while diving. The upshot was pretty much that if you are in good control and take good care, then diving should be available to you. I think Doug wrote a pretty good balanced article. On the other hand, I dove with a guy who had T1 diabetes and he had a major hypoglycemia event (fortunately on the boat not in the water) and if it had happened 30 minutes later he surely would have drowned.

 

Bill

Point taken. Being T1 or T2 diabetic is a serious condition. The point of the article is point out that although someone who has it still might not be excluded from diving, but (and a big hairy one here) it can/will be an added risk to be considerd to go with all the other things that can go very wrong when in the water.