Bent Benny
Contributor
I started watching a documentary several weeks ago about the Blue Hole in Egypt. I didn't get very far into it, but I did get to a story about a diver who lost his life there. He was unqualified and under-equipped for the dive he was attempting. The narrator or host of the documentary was explaining the story of what happened to the diver and he made a statement that confuses me a little. It was something like "As the diver plummeted deeper into the depths, he had no hope as his recreational BCD was useless at these depths"
Why would his BCD be useless at a few hundred feet? Is it because the intermediate pressure is less than the ATA so the BCD won't inflate, or are there other reasons why a recreational BCD wouldn't work at depths beyond rec limits?
Why would his BCD be useless at a few hundred feet? Is it because the intermediate pressure is less than the ATA so the BCD won't inflate, or are there other reasons why a recreational BCD wouldn't work at depths beyond rec limits?