![]() ![]() If you want equipment help that isn't covered by the FAQ, make sure to mention the kind of environment you would be diving in and your experience level. From how to buy gear as someone new to the sport, to tips on tech diving, to how to become a dive professional, we want to compile a resource for divers of all experience levels.Ī community built guide - please don't be a jerk Help us put together a guide for all the common questions and answers. (Green is nitrox, red is diver down) If you'd like a Dive Instructor badge you will have to PM a mod to prove you are a certified DI). Remember that the vast majority of members here are NOT qualified to give accurate medical advice!Ĭlick on Edit user flair below on the right side and pick your certification level. If you intend on posting any medically related questions, (like ascending to altitude after a dive) please refer either to your local barotrauma doctor, or call DAN at one of the numbers on the link below But, image meme posts will be removed without mercy, speared like a lionfish in the Caribbean and left on the reef of removed posts to be eaten by oblivion. Just a warning, we want this community to be about sharing news, stories and experiences, questions and help, and diving photos and video - basically anything diving and dive lifestyle related. I personally prefer to dive and swim around fishes, and not to risk my life in a dark desolated volcanic hole just to record my deepest dive on my computer.Welcome to /r/scuba where scubbits dive deep! Please msg the mods with ideas, links, and info that can help our community grow. much more like jumping with a motorcycle from a broken bridge just to prove yourself you made it! This is not scuba diving or sport, it's just falling down. Unfortunatley Lipski made such experience in Dahab's Blue Hole by dying like this in just 3 minutes, and his last seconds of life reveal how he was already intoxicated and phisically gone (by convulsions), reacting someway to gain control of his legs against the rocks: too little, too late.Īt his point there was nothing to do for him: he already ignored the fact he chose to go deep underwater with only 1 tank, he submerged totally alone, he went down deeper without trimix tanks, he went down fast without checking his full body response (thinking and moving hands is not enough to prove it). Yuri Lipski taped every last moment of narcosis effects and this is perhaps the best lesson he gave us. No one can predict its effect on our body, except God. The stupid theory of a shark attack in this case show us how many divers doesn't know the "real existence" of N narcosis in deep diving. I'd be curious to know what an autopsy determined.Įxactly: overconfidence kill more often than sharks! Generally, most diving fatalities seem to involve multiple failures or problems. ![]() ![]() Whether it was narcosis or an underlying medical problem or any number of other possibilities may never be known. I'm not sure if you can get narc'd that fast or not but he seemed to be out of it. Something to do with the changing pressures in your lungs and the way gas is delivered to the blood stream. I have heard in the past that a high rate of descent can make it worse although I'm no expert on this. It affects everyone differently and the onset, if that is the case here, would seem to be rather fast in this instance. One thing that does stand out is his rate of descent - 30 metres per minute? Surely he could have dropped his weights and inflated his BC.ĭoes nitrogen narcossis kick in that fast, Mike? When he lost his regulator, he was on his own. Peter (padi56) used to teach diving in the region - perhaps he can shed some light on this.įrom the video, the diver committed one fatal error: never, EVER go anywhere without your buddy. ![]()
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