Can we learn a lesson from this.
Fatal Diving accident caught on tape
Can we learn a lesson from this.
so sad but that's what happens when you panic. Dump the camera and some weight and you're still alive. I know all the recent deaths in CA while scuba diving was due to lack of knowledge and experience. It's not all that hard just use your mind and you will live.
[QUOTE=hbh2oguard;1884]so sad but that's what happens when you panic.QUOTE]
Very true.. Wow... nothing like a dose of reality to put things in perspective... That video put knots in my stomach...
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The video is chilling. But what actually happened? Was he descending out of control? Was he on air? Or was the problem that he got entangled on the bottom? I wonder if he lost his reg, or spit it out in panic?
maybe he got trapped in a down current???
that's it! no more deep and drift dives for you mom, sis and dad! shallow dives and house reefs from now on...
not too sure what happened but he was at 91m which is pretty darn deep. The picture was too clear at the end but it didn't look like there was anything to get tangled on, and the commentators kept saying it was sand.
I think 91 m is about 300 feet. If he was on air he would've been so narced sand would've seemed scary . . . near the very end though I thought I could see a black thin line curling through the frame?? Just for a second ...
Another link...
Here is another video, with a little more info:
"It could never happen to me..."
"I'm experienced. I can manage"
Stick with your dive buddy, that is why they are there.
Practice, practice, practice. Take time, at a safe location
to practice emergency drills, until "Muscle memory" and
the drills become second nature.
I always replay a story once told to me and the answer
given by the astronaut acts as a foundation to how I dive.
An astronaut was asked,
"If you were trapped outside of your vessel and had 10 seconds
of air remaining, what would you do?"
Their answer, THINK for a solution in the first 9 seconds, then act.
My apologies for preaching, watching something like this has
me feeling helpless and it helps remind me that anything can
happen, anytime.
RIP
Lars
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Lars,
I cheated and removed the link tags and switched them for the youtube tags, and viola, the video magically appears!
Thanks for finding a video with additional info, thanks Lars!
Very Chilling videos. Another one that is going around from the head mounted cam of Dave Shaw is also chilling. He died trying to retrieve Deon Dreyers body from Boesmansgat Cave in South Africa. Here is a transcript of an ABC show called Australian Story that went to air shortly after he died.
http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1370703.htm
No video in this link.
Matt
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