I have seen something similar with scuba divers. I actually encountered a diver who was bragging about his trip to a decompression chamber after getting the bends as the result of an improperly executed dive. This was in the era before decomp meters - one had to set limits based only on dive tables.
For myself, I had already decided that if I ever did that, I would stop diving. Different strokes for different folks.
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