dumpsterDiver
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My wife got accidentally clipped off with a suicide clip onto a tag line running from the anchor line back horizontally to the rear of the boat. The rope was taunt, large enough that we could not get the gate back opened and it happened at night and in a current and it was kinda rough. We had to remove her BC and cut it off and the current, the waves and the disruption to other divers trying to move up the line made for a problem. What are the chances of that?
Certainly not a fatality, but definetly reinforced a lesson that I already knew.
I also had an incident myself with a suicide clip. My buddies used to have one on a steel scuba tank that we had filled with oxygen and we used to hang it at 20 feet for deco/safety stops on oxygen. I had bitched about the clips, but everyone seemd to blow it off and I didn't care enough to take matters into my own hands.
On one particularly rough day, while doing a solo deco dive and breathing off this bottle.. I somehow got the tank behind me and the damn suicide clip, auto clipped to a hose comming off my first stage. Instantly I was clipped off from behind and was having this steel tank bash me in the head (from behind) as the boat was bouncing up and down in like 5 ft seas. I could not figure out how to get away from the bottle hammering me and couldn't grab it to control it. I was super pissed and ended up ascending with the tank attached and screaming for help to get the thing off me. I seriously could have been knocked unconcious. At least my body would have been recoverable since I would have been attached to the boat..
Suicide (gate) clips are not used on any scuba gear I own. I still see them on sale at about ever dive shop I visit. They are unnecessarily dangerous, even if attached by a "cuttable" line.
Certainly not a fatality, but definetly reinforced a lesson that I already knew.
I also had an incident myself with a suicide clip. My buddies used to have one on a steel scuba tank that we had filled with oxygen and we used to hang it at 20 feet for deco/safety stops on oxygen. I had bitched about the clips, but everyone seemd to blow it off and I didn't care enough to take matters into my own hands.
On one particularly rough day, while doing a solo deco dive and breathing off this bottle.. I somehow got the tank behind me and the damn suicide clip, auto clipped to a hose comming off my first stage. Instantly I was clipped off from behind and was having this steel tank bash me in the head (from behind) as the boat was bouncing up and down in like 5 ft seas. I could not figure out how to get away from the bottle hammering me and couldn't grab it to control it. I was super pissed and ended up ascending with the tank attached and screaming for help to get the thing off me. I seriously could have been knocked unconcious. At least my body would have been recoverable since I would have been attached to the boat..
Suicide (gate) clips are not used on any scuba gear I own. I still see them on sale at about ever dive shop I visit. They are unnecessarily dangerous, even if attached by a "cuttable" line.