If you had a boob job (breast augmentation), will you have a problem if you scuba dive?
Scuba Diving adds pressure as the person goes deeper, and i’m wondering if this will deform your boob job in some way after repetitive scuba diving? Is the materials being used for breast augmentation prepared to take this type of pressure? Or what if you go to a decompression chamber or something?
Just need to know if I should get one done on me since I scuba dive.
I think I saw something like this on Mythbusters, or something in Discovery a long time ago.
They abused the fake boob in all kinds of crazy ways, including altering pressure in either extreme, and the boob was not damaged by that.
They’re filled with fluid, like your body, and your body doesn’t get deformed by scuba diving so I don’t see why an implant would either.
Here’s your answer directly from the Dive Docs at the Diver’s Alert Network.
http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medical/faq/faq.aspx?faqid=200
Interesting read. Who knew there would be a slight difference in volume change between silicone versus saline? Yup…they tested it.
Damn, Bob beat me again!
I once taught an OWD course which included a student who had implants (she told us–I wouldn’t have guessed). She didn’t have any problems (with the implants, anyway) during the pool and open-water training, although of course we weren’t going very deep.
For sport diving there probably wouldn’t be any problems. And (from a gas physics point of view) going in a REcompression chamber is no different than going diving, except that the profile is far better controlled.
As far as boob jobs go, though, there are better (and cheaper) ways of improving one’s sense of self-esteem, IMHO.