Fatal Diving Accident Caught on Tape

[theweber]

This will make you sick. This should be shown at the all O.W. classes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eejQPUyeNiY

[Bill McIntyre]

I don't understand. Why did he keep descending?

[bgbill]

overweighted, he should have ditched his weights and camera.

[dagodiver]

oops that hurt.




Dago.

[FeAr_ThE_SpEaR]

woooo that was intense. at first i thought it was just one of those clips u watch and a scarey face shows up but it wasnt!very disturbinng in a way

[Marcus]

Calm under pressure....apparently something this individual did not have.

[SouthBaySpearo]

Here's a full discussion: http://thedecostop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23146&highlight=arch

[Got Ya]

My take on it is that he wanted to go deep. Listen to his breathing. He is calm. He is breathing at the same rate as me sitting here watching. Or may be he got a bad case of nitrogen narcosis and became stupid. What a shame.

[Petra]

Holy shit.

[Gamble]

Personally I think he knew that was his last dive before he got wet. He hit bottom two times before going deeper. They said he was an instructor so he had to have some basic skills and sense to dump his weight. Sad regardless of how or why it happened.

Pargo is that Persian they are speaking?

[gogators27]

Personally I think he knew that was his last dive before he got wet. He hit bottom two times before going deeper. They said he was an instructor so he had to have some basic skills and sense to dump his weight. Sad regardless of how or why it happened.

I agree, I'm thinking suicide or he tried to do a ill planned bounce dive and things went wrong, he may have gotten narked, equipment failed, or gotten tangled up and freaked out.

I tried to look at the discussion on the deco stop website but you have to be a member to read it. What did they make of it?

Right before the end you could hear some air releasing, I was thinking he was trying to inflate his bc or it got punctured and realeased all the air in it.

[SpearMax]

Here is a link to the Blue hole at Dahab, Egypt. Over 70 people have died at that Blue Hole dive site. :eek:

http://www.blueholeproject.com/

[jackpine savage]

Its Hebrew

[Man-O-War]

My take on it is that he wanted to go deep. Listen to his breathing. He is calm. He is breathing at the same rate as me sitting here watching. Or may be he got a bad case of nitrogen narcosis and became stupid. What a shame.

Exactly. He is equalizing fine and easy, very calm. He just went for it, BANZAI!

[PAT A]

Whatever it is, suicide, a case of the dumb asses, a couple video clips edited together, it doesnt much matter. At this point its just entertainment on the internet.

[Ruh Roh]

My take on it is that he wanted to go deep. Listen to his breathing. He is calm. He is breathing at the same rate as me sitting here watching. Or may be he got a bad case of nitrogen narcosis and became stupid. What a shame.

I agree he only looked at his depth gauge when he was walking along the bottom. He wanted to "set the record" and he got entangled and never recovered :(

[intowin]

it did seem he was saying help at shallower depths though.

[Stealthdiver]

He kept going for a reason, any instructor could have kept from going down. He's got expensive camera equipment, seems like he knew what he was doing ,if he would have been at total painic he would have lost the camera way before the end and would have never looked at his dive computer. Why , who knows, I'd go with the going deep thing, record or something , got narked and it was to late..

[SpearMax]

it did seem he was saying help at shallower depths though.

Good point! I don't know what went wrong, but it seemed he was multi-tasking too much and may have held on to the camera for security when he should have been ditching it and correcting his overweighted situation that was pulling him down. However, most cameras are just not that negatively buoyant. Last weekend, I was filming with a Discovery Channel Shark Week film crew with four cameras and the biggest one was a huge Sony 900 high definition Camera that must have weighed 30 pounds on the boat, but was neutral under water. :slap: :cool:

[Nsearch]

This was the most informative post on the Deco Stop.

The movie is real allright. It's a clip from an Israeli television documentery movie called "SHIKARON MA'AMAKIM" (literaly "depth drunckness", the Hebrew term for nitrogen narcuses, but also hinting "craze for depth"). The central peace is the story of the diver in the clip here - he was a Russion/Israeli dive instructor, about 25 years old that died while attempting the arch in the blue hold in Dahab. One of the speculations that surficed is that he was overweighted (especially with all the video equipment), could not keep bouyant and just fell to about 100m depth. The body was retrived by a trimix diver from Dahan that has quite a lot of experince with this line of work. :(

The movie is shown on TV from time to time, and there are some dive schools who show this to all OW students, in hope of keeping them within their diving limits.

[kill shot]

I think that they put a couple of clips together to make this one. The end of the video where the guy is on the bottom and running out of air and scrambling around was taken from a guy cave diving and lost his way out and was freaking out big time before he die's.
In the video you see the bottom a couple of times before he sinks into the the abyss. Why didn't he stop a one of those depths? For as much light as there was on the shallower depths it sure did black out like a cave when he hit a certain depth range in the video. His camera light should've showed more light in the water column on the way down if it wasn't a cave. IMO


Makes sense, but why would someone make a video like this? Al most sounds like he tries to inflate his BC when he is on the bottom.


Eric

[kaborkian]

Nsearch already touched on it...

If you read the comments, he was attempting a 61m (199') dive through an arch in the blue hole. Most likely he narc'ed bad and that was the end. He's 90+m (294')!!! at the end. No way in hell he's got any bit of sanity left at that point...

FWIW, the "help" noise is unlikely to be him calling for help, since he's not a native english speaker. Also, when you try to talk underwater, it's way low pitched and garbled, no where near as clear as what sounded like a cry for help. It sounded more like a regulator set for very low dP honking a little. Mine does that sometimes if it's adjusted for very low inhale pressure.

Very sad...but also not a wise dive plan. "I'm going to slam down to 61m, try and keep up".

[Nsearch]

"I'm going to slam down to 61m, try and keep up".

Isn't that SOP for the Hell Divers? :D

[gogators27]

Nsearch already touched on it...

If you read the comments, he was attempting a 61m (199') dive through an arch in the blue hole. Most likely he narc'ed bad and that was the end. He's 90+m (294')!!! at the end. No way in hell he's got any bit of sanity left at that point...
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Is it common for tech divers to traverse the entire way under the arch out into the open ocean at blue hole?

[tbare]

It looked like he was making it a point to go deep and fast. He was going, going, going, then aimed the camera at his gauge as if he was shooting a "extreme video" to show his buddies what a bad ass diver he was. Then his situation got much worse real fast. They never did say if he ran out of breathing gas, did they? It is a shame regardles. I sure I hope my death will not be on the internet!

t_bare

[riplipper]

almost looks like he didnt have fins on at the bottom the way he is moving around..???

[Caloosa]

There's no subsitute for the training we all possess. Each and every dive should be planned and executed as we are trained...dealing with emergencies has to be a reaction, not a thought process. We all must never forget the little things that go into making are sport as rewarding as we want it to be on one hand and as dangerous and potentially terminal it can be on the other hand...a sad story...but one that should reinforce our own basic understanding of the simple things that can save us.

[chuckle head]

the video that pargo linked was crazy..looked like they showed 7 or 8 dead divers/equipment down there. sucks either way.

[promethean_spar]

There was footage of a guy freediving that arch with a monofin on youtube too. 60m down with a 20m traverse with overhead aint my freediving cup-o-tea...