An age-old question: ways to 60m.

[CG43]

Pretty much every story Gilliam told was a tall tale. The guy was a chest beating weenie and if you read his accounts of his 490-foot dive or his shark attack story you'll realize pretty quickly that the guy is totally full of it and just wanted people to think he was cool.

I love these people with the crystal ball who can not only judge stories well, but also see the motivation.
But don't worry, I've ordered the book “Deep diving by Bret Gilliam” and maybe I'll come to a similar conclusion.

 

[Celt]

I love these people with the crystal ball who can not only judge stories well, but also see the motivation.
But don't worry, I've ordered the book “Deep diving by Bret Gilliam” and maybe I'll come to a similar conclusion.

So did I, after reading the article I thought “this guy knows what he’s talking about”

 

[Boarderguy]

Shhhh, you'll trigger the team divers again...

 

[Nick_Radov]

NothingClever wrote about Gilliam's 490 feet dive :


The only thing we know for sure is that his problems were not so big that they killed him.
But isn't that reason enough to look for what he did better than other divers ?

Nope. Bret Gilliam was a known liar and a legend in his own mind. There's no reliable evidence that he actually did anything "better" than some of the more experienced divers on this forum. You can read the stories for entertainment if you like but don't take them seriously or expect to learn anything that you can apply to real diving. Frankly I don't believe he actually went to 490ft on air: there doesn't seem to have been any reliable independent verification, and other published claims mention 475ft.

Interest in extreme scuba bounce dive depths seems so stupid, regardless of who did it or what gas they breathed. Go straight down and then come back up without seeing or doing anything. Pointless. Any diver can do a deep "bungee dive" and survive as long as nothing goes seriously wrong. The commercial saturation guys go twice that deep all the time, and do it safely.

 

[ofg-1]

Nope. Bret Gilliam ..... a legend in his own mind. .

In case you have not noticed, there are more than a few on this forum.

 

[SelfDiver]

In case you have not noticed, there are more than a few on this forum.

Hey!
There are dozens of us legends.

 

[rjack321]

Well well well, you pulled this one out of your hat, and even scored yourself some other questionable likers
like the inevitability of those Rouses who in poor conditions weren't feeling it were going to sit out the dive
but immaturely as they mostly acted, the son with questionable psychology, goaded each other into diving
and ended up where they may always have been going

Air or mix

What are you rambling about? They were not in "poor condition" they choose air for cost reasons. They were as "qualified" for air at 65m as anyone debating the issue now decades later. Their dive went pear shaped, the combination of narcosis, gas density, CO2, and the overhead all overwhelmed their capacities, and they died in an uncontrolled ascent.

 

[flymolo]

What are you rambling about? They were not in "poor condition" they choose air for cost reasons. They were as "qualified" for air at 65m as anyone debating the issue now decades later. Their dive went pear shaped, the combination of narcosis, gas density, CO2, and the overhead all overwhelmed their capacities, and they died in an uncontrolled ascent.

Not to mention the cold and the darkness

 

[CG43]

What are you rambling about? They were not in "poor condition"....................................

Relax, read what happy diver has written again and consider what we are used to from his writing style.
You can also read something completely different in it like you did , right ?

 

[Centrals]

That happened in 1992 ie. 33 yrs ago.