#840 - Donald Cerrone

Joe Rogan (0:01)

I can't be wearing a headset. No, you're gonna wear your hat. You gotta be cool. It looks weird. Well, it looks weird. If there's only one headset.

Are we live?

We're fucking live, man. What's going on, brother?

Donald Cerrone (0:13)

Chillin.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Look at you.

Donald Cerrone (0:15)

Look at me.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Fillin up tanks.

Cheers, we got it. We cannot have a podcast with Cowboy.

Donald Cerrone (0:22)

Without America here.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

America.

Donald Cerrone (0:24)

America.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

America.

Donald Cerrone (0:25)

Thank you. Starting off a good one.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

So tell me about the tanks. You sent me a picture today.

Donald Cerrone (0:31)

I had a little time to kill, didn't I?

Joe Rogan (0:34)

What are you doing?

Donald Cerrone (0:35)

I'm going diving to Catalina.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

Holy shit!

Donald Cerrone (0:37)

Home of the... Home of the sharks.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Home of the Mako's, right?

Donald Cerrone (0:40)

The Mako, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

I was watchin a TV show the other day where people were fishing for them out there.

Donald Cerrone (0:45)

So we got a fill up a couple ous of doubles. My buddy, Ross, from Always Sun of Philadelphia, take me this weekend campin.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Or you get the bends.

Donald Cerrone (1:23)

Yeah, absolutely, you get the bends. Yeah, it's decompressing, you know. The process to diving, and I've been diving seriously, like a lot of wreck diving, and a lot of tech, you should say, diving over the last two years. Man, I ran into some guys in Las Vegas, Buddy Trav, and he kinda schooled me on their way of diving, and I love it, man. And the reason I go to Las Vegas and dive Lake Mead all the time.

Let's just say we're going to go 150 feet for, there's a cool ship down there we want to check out, we want to be there for 35 minutes, right? So I put the algorithm in these apps in our computer, or we write it all out, and it'll tell us exactly how long of a bottom time we can have, the stops that we have to make, and the gases that we have to switch to decompress the amount of nitrogen in our blood, and make our way to the surface.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

What's the science behind it? Like, why does nitrogen get in your blood?

Donald Cerrone (2:45)

So, because from Earth's surface to the atmosphere is one atmosphere, right?

You.

Right, so like right now, you're taking a breath, and then you breathe out, and the nitrogen just off gasses. Well, as soon as we start going onto the water, the amount of pressure holds that into our system. Like we can't off gas it, so it becomes, turns into a liquid, and goes into our blood. Which is what the Benz is, is where the guys would be working, and then they'd just come up, because they didn't know. No one knew until you know, right? I mean, we didn't know there wasn't a moon god until all of a sudden we know now. I mean, I know what you're saying. So, yeah, so they, you would force the liquid out of, into a, back into a gas by coming up fast, so it, which goes into your joints and causes the bends, because it makes you bend over and hurt your back, so that's why they call it the bend, because the guy's like, oh, fuck, I'm fucked up, right? I got like, yes, that's where the term bend comes from.

Joe Rogan (4:10)

That shit can kill you, right?

Donald Cerrone (4:11)

Well, yeah, well, you can aneurysm in your brain, blood clot, you know, all kinds of crazy, it can kill you instantly. Whoa.

So 150 feet, all of a sudden, 25 minutes is up. Now we're gonna start our ascent.

And our computer says, all right, at 70 feet, we gotta do a minute. At 60 feet, we gotta do two minutes. We're gonna switch gases. Now we're gonna switch to 50% oxygen, right? So increase the amount of oxygen to which decreases the amount of nitrogen that we're breathing. So we're gonna speed the off-gassing process because we're coming up, so the pressure's coming off as our body's able to off-gas it.

So we just have to do like stages, and it's all through algorithm and the Navy dive system, been through years, hundreds of millions of dives, figuring out the timetables of the correct amount of time we have to be at each depth to off-gas the amount of nitrogen in our bodies built up. And then when you go deeper than that, you start adding in a trimix, we add helium in.