Missouri diver sucked into drainage pipe - Texas

[AfterDark]

One of our part-time patient attendants is a public safety diver. He was searching for a weapon one day and found a drainage pipe at about 33' at the bottom of a 1920s era dam/spillway. He had a good light and fortunately noticed the silt getting sucked in before he got caught himself. There were no drawings available, and the team later had to put dye into the drain to find the discharge, which was in a river some distance away.

Betcha he felt the pucker factor!

 

[Duke Dive Medicine]

Betcha he felt the pucker factor!

He did. This is the same guy who found a brick on the bottom in zero viz and didn't realize it was attached to 40-year-old IED until he surfaced with it (AGA still covered with mud) and the SBI guys scattered.

 

[peterbj7]

I'm not familiar with OSHA standards even though I was a PSD instructor, but in Britain the HSE is very demanding on training for any diving that qualifies as "commercial". Dealing with issues such as those described in this thread is very much part of that training. Too many non-commercial divers think commercial diving is just like recreational diving, only more so - it isn't.