Quote: (Originally Posted by Martin Burnard)
I mentioned this idea at a recent social visit to the DDRC (Diving and Decompression (Disease?) Research Centre) Plymouth, and they looked horrified!
"Get out the water and get to a chamber, if one isn't close what were you doing diving!" sums up their reply.
If you do everything to maximise your safety (team, 1/3rds, planning etc), then a chamber no where near is a big cockup!!!
I felt suitably admonished!
I think that in the UK we are very lucky in that we are well serviced by chambers, and have a first rate rescue service. As such, I can't see any reason whatsoever to try IWR in the UK (I don't mean a missed stops procedure, but IWR on a symptomatic diver). However I can see that diving in more remote parts of the world, where you may be many hours or days from a chamber, then having an IWR plan, and the equipment and training to put it into action could save lives.
My 2p
J