Technical Diving

Technical Dive Books; Expand your knowledge about cave diving, sidemount techniques or even underwater video in unique environments.

6 Items

Set Descending Direction
  1. Front View
    Technically Speaking: Talks on Technical Diving
    $16.95
  2. Front Cover
    Into the Planet - My Life as a Cave Diver - Paperback
    $17.99
  3. Front Cover
    The Essentials of Cave Diving - Fourth Edition
    $29.99
  4. Side Mount Profiles - Front Cover
    Side Mount Profiles
    $49.95
  5. Front Cover
    Sidemount Diving - The Almost Comprehensive Guide, 2nd Edition
    $69.95
  6. IANTD Exploration and Mixed Gas Diving Encyclopedia; The Tao of Survival Underwater
    IANTD Exploration and Mixed Gas Diving Encyclopedia; The Tao of Survival Underwater
    $99.00

Diving and Blue Pills

An article titled "Sidenafil pre-treatment promotes decompression sickness in rats" published by the National Institutes of Health concluded that a class of drugs known as phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors used to treat erectile dysfunction promotes the onset and severity of neurological decompression sickness in rats. A medical team at Duke University (the home of Divers Alert Network) has also studied PDE-5 inhibitors in rats and reached similar conclusions about increasing susceptibility to oxygen toxicity seizures. However, there is also some evidence of benefit to use as prophylaxis for a condition known as swimming induced pulmonary edema. Our conclusion is that rats should not dive after taking Viagra®, and that technical divers should be especially cautious regarding pharma enhanced bedroom activities the night before any extended range diving. We are not joking and this isn't fake news.