Scuba divers, some do it for fun and others do it for a living. Some have the best equipment, and some just use whatever they can get. Many ingenious people harvest while scuba diving, catching different types of sea life animals like lobsters. There are divers, Miskitos who dive every chance they get to make a living. Most of the Miskitos don't have the right equipment to dive but still go anyway causing them to affect their health. Sooner or later they all get weak and weary. It is very common for them to get decompression sickness also known as "the bends". It is when someone is exposed to a lot of pressure and depth that the body can't handle. It is even when you stay deep for too long, and when you are going up to the surface too fast. When this happens your body absorbs nitrogen from inhaled air, and when it is dissolved nitrogen in forms bubbles in your blood and tissue. It's like a soda can, it has carbon dioxide bubble inside and when you open it you reduce the pressure. If you spend more time in the depth the nitrogen is likely to give off and not form bubbles. Nitrogen bubbles have many affects on your body. They can restrict blood flow, cause joint pain, and show up in your central nervous system. That cause you to have weakness, numbness, and paralysis. Now researchers today are trying to do anything possible to make diving more safe for these people. They give training in oxygen first aid so that they can help not only themselves but others.
I picked this topic because it just amazed me how much damage scuba diving can do if you don't have the right equipment, but then again some people can't get those things. I cannot agree or disagree with anything that was said because this is all new to me. I do think that diver safety will be much more high tech in five to ten years from now. I think there will be more serious care for these ingenious people that can't go out out and get the equipment.
