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

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...

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
 

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
 

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
 

Plenty of 'em out there in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic"... ;D ...I imagine pickin' your days for the "viz" would be a trick ;) ...