Taravana

Taravana

Taravana is a disease among Polynesian island natives who habitually dive deep without breathing apparatus many times in close succession, usually for food or pearls. [cite book |last=Rahn |first=H. |coauthors=Yokoyama, T. |title=Physiology of Breath-Hold Diving and the Ama of Japan. |year=1965 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council |location=United States |isbn=0309013410 |pages=369 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/3279 |accessdate=2008-04-16 ] [cite journal |last=Wong |first=R. M. |title=Taravana revisited: Decompression illness after breath-hold diving |journal=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society journal |volume=29 |issue=3 |date=1999 |issn=0813-1988 |oclc=16986801 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6010 |accessdate=2008-04-16 ]

It seems to be decompression sickness. The usual symptoms are vertigo, nausea, lethargy, paralysis, death. The word "taravana" is Tuamotu Polynesian for "to fall crazily". These free-divers may make 40 to 60 dives a day, each of 30 or 40 metres (100 to 140 feet).

References

External links

* [http://www.scuba-doc.com/breathhold.html Breath-hold Diving: Taravana ]
* [http://www.skin-diver.com/departments/scubamed/FreedivingCauseDCS.asp?theID=626 Can Freediving Cause DCS?] (Fred Bove, MD, PhD)
* [http://wetdoc.5u.com/notas/taravana.htm Taravana] (in Spanish)


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