Anybody catch Discovery Channel tonight?

[coreypenrose]

That had a story on there about a woman who was taking some pictures underwater, and didnt realize it, but was being swept away from her boat by the current. She surfaced, and had her video camera still running, and it pretty much showed her just barely floating on the surface. Obviously, for me sitting in my living room watching this, it is a lot easier to sit here and say this is what she did wring, and this is what she did right. I guess none of us know what we would really do until we are in this situation. But upon surfacing, she started panicking, screaming for help. With the camera still running, you can see sharks starting to gather under her. Once she came to her senses, and when a big wave came and lifted her up, she caught a glimpse of land, and started swimming towards it. I noticed first of all, she didnt even have a snorkal on, so she was swimming at the surface with her reg on. In the recreation scene, they never once showed her or mentioned her inflating her BC. She said that dropping her weights wasnt an option, because then she would be too buoyant, and wouldnt be able to kick with her fins because they would be out of the water. Well, she was finally rescued, and 10 years later, they showed her going through this physical fitness plan to get ready to get back into the water where all this happened. She wound up going back, and diving there again, which I assume is a good thing, defeating your fears, but if you havent dove in 10 years, I would think you would probably want to get in some non-stress related dives to get the rust off, so to speak.

I was just curious if anyone else watched this, and noticed these things as well, or noticed anything else.

That's it? I was hoping for live video of her leg being chewed off.

J/K What a disappointing way to start shark week.

 

[PhotoTJ]

On the plus side, though, that was a *****en' Monster House!

 

[JustAddWater]

Hippo vs Bull Shark episode....
I saw that some time ago. I believe the hippo won. I guess size matters in this case.

 

[Scubaguy62]

Hippo vs Bull Shark episode....
I saw that some time ago. I believe the hippo won. I guess size matters in this case.

I wish that episode was shown yesterday...I didn't see shark week 2002, but I must say that SW 2001 was far better than SW 2003 and SW 2004, thus far, combined. Last year they re-did a pontoon boat, this year a house. Next year they might just retrofit my car to make it a dive boat!!!!

 

[ShakaZulu]

Filming sharks, lends itself to be a little more dangerous, than your normal dive. You'd think it would be nice to have a buddy with you, just in case. Oh well, guess her sleepless nights didn't help any, since she went back there, solo diving.