Bad Diving on TV

[Choke]

If the guy is an experienced tech diver, he's way out of line!
Maybe one of the top diving mags should have a feature where they look at all the dangerous things he did and totally discredit his reputation by naming and shaming. lol
I'm sure that he would pay more attention to detail the next time he dives looking for Easter eggs or whatever he was looking for.......

For newbie divers this guy is just bad news!

 

[NetPro]

When was the last time you saw an "extreme" sport portrayed accurately on TV. Let's face it we do things that are different from most people. Maybe that's why we do it. To a lot of people that makes it extreme. We do things properly to minimize risks but that won't get some publicity hound on TV.

I was a skydiver for many years and have over 500 jumps. I never had to use a reserve chute so I'll never get on TV. Did you see the movie Drop Zone with Wesley Snipes? That was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Funny how the laws of physics didn't always apply.

How many of you watch NASCAR races and are glued to the TV when there's a crash?

Can you believe the popularity of the WWF?

I guess good, safe, fun diving doesn't get advertisers.

No, it doesn't surprise me that some clown used poor judgement and survived. It never surprises me to see this celebrated on TV.

Things like this always give us an oppotrunity to teach. Thanks as always to the folks on the ScubaBoard for a another little lesson.


NetPro
Even the stupid get lucky but Darwin always wins in the end!:boom:

 

[martinjc]

I saw that too! My wife didn't know why I was getting so mad at the TV - and I told her that this guy was ill equipped (no octo) and was breaking all kinds of safety rules - and there was never any mention of how stupid that was! The whole thing was played off as this big adventure - he risked his life, but he got the digital photos! How idiotic!

 

[ckharlan66]

NetPro,

I understand what you are saying about Extreme sports on TV, but this show appeared to be about Extreme diving vocations. They didn't treat this as a near miss or a bad mistake they handled it as "just another day at the office". If this had been a show about the dangerous events or mistakes while diving sure show it and explain how close this dude came to dying. But I wish they wouldn't act like this was an everyday event (however it may be for this guy.) They also potrayed him as a good diver, in that he could dive in this situation without a second thought.

Oh well just my opinion.

Chad

 

[vicky]

For example, in "License to Kill" JB is diving, a school of "bad guys" attack him underwater, he has less than 500 PSI, they cut his 2nd stage hose so he shoots a speargun at an amphibious airplane about to take off. So JB rockets to the surface and then goes on flying (after throwing away the pilots, of course).

About Richard Pyle: he was surely a Darwin Award candidate, but managed somehow to survive. He tried (one may say "discovered") many diving-related theories on himself.
Here's one example:
http://norden1.com/~monty/mortal1.html

and an article about "in water recompression" (I suppose you can guess what it is..)

http://www.bishopmuseum.org/research/treks/palautz97/iwr.html

 

[GP]

Originally posted by vicky
For example, in "License to Kill" JB is diving, a school of "bad guys" attack him underwater, he has less than 500 PSI, they cut his 2nd stage hose so he shoots a speargun at an amphibious airplane about to take off. So JB rockets to the surface and then goes on flying (after throwing away the pilots, of course).

Oh yeah...I forgot about that one...LOL!!

 

[NetPro]

Are you trying to tell me that you can't really do that?

Now I've wasted all that money on barefoot skiing lessons and a new speargun. Luckily I was already a pilot.

NetPro

 

[vicky]

The bad guys rescue their friend from a sunken vehicle (he can be considered a "freediver" since he was breathing normal air) and give him compressed air from a regulator. Great scubadiving practice..
Then they kill someone in a recompression chamber by increasing the pressure and suddenly dropping it. Don't practice this at home
One of the good guys is thrown into a shark cage...

Hmmm.. What a movie

 

[landlocked]

IMHO the whole event was stagged to get a little more excitement in the program. This is TV. Who was taking pictures of the the guy taking the pictures? He had air too didn't he. Who was directing the filming. I suspect that there were probably around 10 divers in the water and that the whole thing was scripted. This is TV. I doubt very much that there was ever any danger or emergency lack of air. Just my opinon.

 

[GP]

Originally posted by landlocked
IMHO the whole event was stagged to get a little more excitement in the program. This is TV. Who was taking pictures of the the guy taking the pictures? He had air too didn't he. Who was directing the filming. I suspect that there were probably around 10 divers in the water and that the whole thing was scripted. This is TV. I doubt very much that there was ever any danger or emergency lack of air. Just my opinon.

Certainly possible.