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Now that is freaky?
Do you have any more info? Where and when did this take place?
The diver was Barbara Dillinger. Her remains were found at 112 meters in the Blue Hole, Dahab, the Red Sea.
The video was taken by Andrey Chistyakov, Dahab-based TDI instructor.
How long was she lost for?
Just to share, the text that follows appears in several blogs and even the wiki page on the Blue Hole:
The Blue Hole is notorious for the number of diving fatalities there, earning it the sobriquet "World's Most Dangerous Dive Site" and the nickname "Diver's Cemetery." Accidents are frequently caused when divers attempt to find the tunnel through the reef (known as "The Arch") connecting the Blue Hole and open water at about 60m depth; 60m is beyond the PADI recreational diving limit (40m) and nitrogen narcosis begins to have an influence. Divers who miss the tunnel sometimes continue descending hoping to find the tunnel lower down and become increasingly narced. The "Arch" is reportedly extremely deceptive in several ways:
* It is difficult to detect because of the odd angle between the arch, open water, and the hole itself.
* Because of the dim lighting and the fact that most light enters from outside, it appears shorter than it really is. Divers report that the Arch appears less than 10m long but measurements have shown it is 26m from one end to the other.
* Frequently, there is a current flowing inward through the arch towards the Blue Hole, increasing the time it takes to swim through.
* The arch continues downward to the seabed which is beyond view and there is therefore no "reference" from below.
Divers who resist the temptation of the Arch and remain within their training and limitations are in no more danger than on any other Red Sea dive site. However, the Arch has proved irresistible for many and thus the site is considered unsuitable for beginners and a potential trap even for experienced divers.
Divers wishing to traverse the Arch should do so only after appropriate training and experience, possibly including: use of multiple cylinders (a twin set may be insufficient for the dive), mixed gases (reduced nitrogen mixtures should be used at this depth), decompression (even if the dive plan does not require decompression, delays could easily make it necessary) and overhead environments. A perfect control of one's buoyancy and diving weighting system is also required.
The Egyptian authorities claim that 40 divers have died at this site since records begin; however, local dive guides frequently believe that the authorities are deliberately understating the numbers and that there have actually been twice that many fatalities--and possibly even more.