Gyula Fora
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Hi All!
We had a very strange experience on a dive today that I wanted to share with you and hopefully get some feedback on what might have really happened.
We were visiting a local dive site in Switzerland (Lake Zurich) for a relaxed wall dive to a maximum depth of 30 meters (within no-deco limits). We were both diving Nitrox 32.
We started the dive by descending to 25 meters as visibility was really poor between 10-25 then swam the first 15 minutes along a rock wall mostly staying at 30 meters. After 15-17 minutes we turned around as agreed, ascended to about 24-25 meters and started to swim back.
This is when things got a little weird...
We were swimming along the wall, pitch black with visibility slightly worse than on the bottom (a bit cloudy). At this point suddenly a very strange feeling came over me that I have not experienced before. It felt like I just woke up and was observing myself almost from the outside. Everything was super calm but I had the feeling that I wasn't controlling what was going on and just flying there. I shook my head and as it cleared up a bit I signaled to my buddy to ascent to a bit higher to complete the dive.
After we surfaced and got changed I told him what I experienced and the strangest thing is that he said that he also felt very similar at that point in the dive.
I wonder what this could have been, maybe something with the darkness and bad visibility but it left both of us a bith puzzled.
As a side note we are not new divers, both around 100-200 dives and we dive in these conditions and depths regularly.
Looking forward to your insights!
We had a very strange experience on a dive today that I wanted to share with you and hopefully get some feedback on what might have really happened.
We were visiting a local dive site in Switzerland (Lake Zurich) for a relaxed wall dive to a maximum depth of 30 meters (within no-deco limits). We were both diving Nitrox 32.
We started the dive by descending to 25 meters as visibility was really poor between 10-25 then swam the first 15 minutes along a rock wall mostly staying at 30 meters. After 15-17 minutes we turned around as agreed, ascended to about 24-25 meters and started to swim back.
This is when things got a little weird...
We were swimming along the wall, pitch black with visibility slightly worse than on the bottom (a bit cloudy). At this point suddenly a very strange feeling came over me that I have not experienced before. It felt like I just woke up and was observing myself almost from the outside. Everything was super calm but I had the feeling that I wasn't controlling what was going on and just flying there. I shook my head and as it cleared up a bit I signaled to my buddy to ascent to a bit higher to complete the dive.
After we surfaced and got changed I told him what I experienced and the strangest thing is that he said that he also felt very similar at that point in the dive.
I wonder what this could have been, maybe something with the darkness and bad visibility but it left both of us a bith puzzled.
As a side note we are not new divers, both around 100-200 dives and we dive in these conditions and depths regularly.
Looking forward to your insights!