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Tragic Diving Accident
HAMMER, you better be careful,
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Tragic Diving Accident
HAMMER, you better be careful,
we don't want to hear a story like this about you: http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles...00010000000001 |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
I got certified back in the early 80s...I LOVE divin', but LOTS of dangers...several years ago, went off Charleston w/ my buddy down there...he invited "Pat"...Pat brought scuba gear and surfaced w/AWESOME catch of big grouper & red snapper from 90"...WOW!!...went on coupla more trips w/ Pat...same result ...WOW!!...
Later my buddy says Pat hadda problem on board the other day (I wasn't there)...came up SICK AS A DOG and BENT... has decompressed several times since w/ OUT fix...all his diving (since 11 yrs old) caught up w/ him ... docs say next WILL kill him...Pat dives no more... Oh, BTW...he has oriental wifey, too... |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
I got certified back in the early 80s...I LOVE divin', but LOTS of dangers...several years ago, went off Charleston w/ my buddy down there...he invited "Pat"...Pat brought scuba gear and surfaced w/AWESOME catch of big grouper & red snapper from 90"...WOW!!...went on coupla more trips w/ Pat...same result ...WOW!!...
Later my buddy says Pat hadda problem on board the other day (I wasn't there)...came up SICK AS A DOG and BENT... has decompressed several times since w/ OUT fix...all his diving (since 11 yrs old) caught up w/ him ... docs say next WILL kill him...Pat dives no more... Oh, BTW...he has oriental wifey, too... |
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Never been on that wreck. I dont like artifical wrecks. Good for training of course, but I enjoy diving real wrecks by storm or by war. Have a few friends who enjoy diving that wreck. I'm a bit "OLD SKOOL", I use a wreck reel line when I go inside. When I wanna come back, I simply reel myself back to the entrance. The bad thing about a wreck reel is that you depend upon it to much and dont take notice of your surrounding. if the line ever cuts away, your screwed. Thought I had the bends a few times, mostly on a deep dive in 2003. Did my hang times coming up from the Manhatten wreck. Felt pain in my left arm. Walked it off, did a second dive, still the same pain. Made it home and collasped in the E.R. Room. Lucky for me it wasnt the bends, just a slight heart attach. :-X
Since that time, I dont dive below 100 ft and stick with air. Mixed gas is to much $$$. Hoping to start diving in late May. My dive gear is out getting serviced. Want to write one more book on wreck diving and retire to the "Keys" ;D * |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
Never been on that wreck. I dont like artifical wrecks. Good for training of course, but I enjoy diving real wrecks by storm or by war. Have a few friends who enjoy diving that wreck. I'm a bit "OLD SKOOL", I use a wreck reel line when I go inside. When I wanna come back, I simply reel myself back to the entrance. The bad thing about a wreck reel is that you depend upon it to much and dont take notice of your surrounding. if the line ever cuts away, your screwed. Thought I had the bends a few times, mostly on a deep dive in 2003. Did my hang times coming up from the Manhatten wreck. Felt pain in my left arm. Walked it off, did a second dive, still the same pain. Made it home and collasped in the E.R. Room. Lucky for me it wasnt the bends, just a slight heart attach. :-X
Since that time, I dont dive below 100 ft and stick with air. Mixed gas is to much $$$. Hoping to start diving in late May. My dive gear is out getting serviced. Want to write one more book on wreck diving and retire to the "Keys" ;D * |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
HAMMER,
You ever do any diving off the NC coast? *Looking at my fishing chart I see a bunch of wrecks in less than 100' near my part of the coast. |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
HAMMER,
You ever do any diving off the NC coast? *Looking at my fishing chart I see a bunch of wrecks in less than 100' near my part of the coast. |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
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Plenty of 'em out there in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic"... ;D ...I imagine pickin' your days for the "viz" would be a trick ;) ... |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
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Plenty of 'em out there in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic"... ;D ...I imagine pickin' your days for the "viz" would be a trick ;) ... |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
It's for reasons like this that I haven't took up tri-mix or wreck diving. I try to keep my diving limited to around 70' with a buddy and 40' by myself. I've been to 80' several times but it's just a ledge so there is nothing to get disoriented in. The guy that runs the dive shop I use regulary dives a wreck 9 miles out of the keys in 230'-265'(deepest end of it is 315'). I have NO desire to do dives like this.
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Re: Tragic Diving Accident
It's for reasons like this that I haven't took up tri-mix or wreck diving. I try to keep my diving limited to around 70' with a buddy and 40' by myself. I've been to 80' several times but it's just a ledge so there is nothing to get disoriented in. The guy that runs the dive shop I use regulary dives a wreck 9 miles out of the keys in 230'-265'(deepest end of it is 315'). I have NO desire to do dives like this.
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Re: Tragic Diving Accident
I've speared fish at 60' and caught 'em at 300+. The shallow water fish taste just as good.
Also, I get a wierd thing that happens to my eyes if go down over ~90 feet where the center of my vision is blurred for 20-30 minutes after the dive. I've talk to dive masters and opthamologists about it but no one has an answer as to exactly why it happens. It's creepy though. |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
I've speared fish at 60' and caught 'em at 300+. The shallow water fish taste just as good.
Also, I get a wierd thing that happens to my eyes if go down over ~90 feet where the center of my vision is blurred for 20-30 minutes after the dive. I've talk to dive masters and opthamologists about it but no one has an answer as to exactly why it happens. It's creepy though. |
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Tuna. You may be getting Narked when diving that deep.
Meaning your getting intoxicated on the air that you are breathing. It effects divers differntly. Is actually called teh Martina effect. Every 33 feet it like drinking one martina. The deeper you go, the more intxicated you get. Some divers prefer to dive the deeper wrecks because they are less visited and artifacts are for the grabbing. Randleman, I dove in NC. and love it. Great Viz down there and the water temps are great. I dove on the Jackson and on one other wreck down there. ;D |
Re: Tragic Diving Accident
Tuna. You may be getting Narked when diving that deep.
Meaning your getting intoxicated on the air that you are breathing. It effects divers differntly. Is actually called teh Martina effect. Every 33 feet it like drinking one martina. The deeper you go, the more intxicated you get. Some divers prefer to dive the deeper wrecks because they are less visited and artifacts are for the grabbing. Randleman, I dove in NC. and love it. Great Viz down there and the water temps are great. I dove on the Jackson and on one other wreck down there. ;D |
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