a spin off to the dying a hero thread...

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I dont call that a crisis either. Collapses happen, I have been hit by falling rocks more than once. If he died, it was very bad luck, if he lived I say he had great luck. And hell of a story to tell.

I've only been cave diving for a year, and I have been hit by falling rocks. It's not a major thing.

My exit being blocked by a collapse? Not yet. He dug his way out. That's kind of a big deal.
 
Women pooping is totally a crisis.

Ummm, ok, you might be totally right on this one!! :D
 
So if you're several hundred feet into a cave and your CCR floods that isn't a crisis? Can you please give your meaning of the word "crisis", as it's clearly different from mine.
 
crisis: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com


(krī'sĭs)
n., pl., -ses (-sēz).
1.
a.A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
b.An unstable condition, as in political, social, or economic affairs, involving an impending abrupt or decisive change.
2.A sudden change in the course of a disease or fever, toward either improvement or deterioration.
3.An emotionally stressful event or traumatic change in a person's life.
4.A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved.

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The effect of 'air hunger' on a diver's psychological composure and task focus is an issue that must be dealt with during tech level training. Any diver at this level should be resistant to panic if they don't have air. The exercise described provided ample experience of this.

It also taught prioritization. The mask clearing had to be abandoned when air became an issue. If an 'air-gun' had been used to simulate that problem, then the OP may not have had the opportunity to address that issue.
 
Is it against STANDARDS for an instructor to shut down your gas?

The person who asserted this early on declined to answer my question as to which agency's standards were being flouted. Last I heard different agencies have different standards.
 
I've only been cave diving for a year, and I have been hit by falling rocks. It's not a major thing.

My exit being blocked by a collapse? Not yet. He dug his way out. That's kind of a big deal.

Im glad he lived, that would totally suck. It doesnt have anything to do with the things we can train for tho.
 
Im glad he lived, that would totally suck. It doesnt have anything to do with the things we can train for tho.

Yes, I think it does. Managing being stressed out.
 
So if you're several hundred feet into a cave and your CCR floods that isn't a crisis? Can you please give your meaning of the word "crisis", as it's clearly different from mine.


Umm not if your trained. I know quite a few CCR divers and Instructors of them. I have asked most of them this same thing. The answer is NO its not a crisis. You go to bail out and exit the cave. Is that really hard to understand. I had a reg mess up 2000ft back in a cave. We turned and exited, there was no crisis there, just some cussing from having to bail on the dive.If I had mismanaged my gas and didnt have enough to out then it would have been a crisis.
 

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