How much alcohol can you drink while on a vacation that includes SCUBA diving?
SCUBA diving, safety, vacation, drinking, alcohol, health
You being a new diver I would recommend zero alcohol consumption if you are going to scuba dive. Either drink or dive, one or the other, but not both. ( I'm not condoning drinking one way or the other for you, just answering your question about drinking and diving). Actually, the biggest health problem from alcohol, except for the obvious, while scuba diving is dehydration.
I'm sure you have experienced, after a night of drinking, you wake up the next day being very thirsty. All you want to do is drink water or some other non-alcohol drink to quench that thirst.
So, dehydration is a big health danger while diving, because the air you breath from your tank is compressed and very, very dry!!! This compressed dry air sucks the moisture from your body very rapidly while diving, which dehydrates you even more. Have you ever experience a dry parched feeling throat after diving? That is the air from your scuba tank taking the moisture from your body. I'm sure your scuba instructor told you to drink lots of water before and after diving. That's why!!!
So, in my professional opinion, please do not drink if you are scuba diving, because you are so new to diving. Just don't want you to hurt yourself.
If you aren't going to take my advice about zero alcohol, then no more then two drinks, and then drink plenty of water. No sport drinks or Gatorade, bad for you if you're scuba diving, just water. Hope you have a great time on your vacation.....Be Safe!!!
Cozumel, Mexico, Scuba Diving Trip III, Feb 2011
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