Narcosis

[scott]

I've been down to 105 feet on air and I was feeling a little narced. I didn't feel to impaired, but I was definitely a little paranoid, I was probably checking my gauges every 30 seconds or so.
It would also be interesting to study the effects of drinking on getting narcosis. I have a friend who went to commercial diving school in Seattle. On a fun dive with a couple other divers, one of them got narced and somehow passed out and spit the regulator out of his mouth (I don't remember the whole story). They made it up to the surface fine as soon as they saw him. When they talked to an instructor, he told the guy that he should go out drinking more (not right before diving, but just in general). Since being drunk feels much like narcosis, you can at least learn to function impaired. I'm sure drinking isn't going to help avoid narcosis, but at least you'ld have some idea of what it's like and how to function under it.