DINOFISH the dive

[KenGordon]

You know, TV is not real. Even the stuff you think ought to be real isn't. Quiz programs, documentaries etc have to have jeopardy. I least the producers think so.

On the silly voices front, in a chamber breathing air your voice gets squeaky too. Mixes like 18/35 are good enough to amuse small children at the surface for ages with squeaky voices. 20/20 not so good.

 

[AfterDark]

I saw a re-broadcast of the video. After viewing I can't help ask a number of questions. It doesn't look like the OC diver has enough gas for a 380 ft dive, nor deco cylinders? It doesn't look like the CCR divers have sufficient bailout? The OC diver has an OOA emergency, and is fumbling with spare gas inaccessible behind his doubles. He has to take the doubles off to access it. During the process, he wraps himself up with his upline, cuts it, and then the line seems to re-appear attached to the reel? During all this the videographer is steadily filming and not providing assistance? Doing a 4 hour tec dive without exposure wear, getting cool if not hypothermic, is not a good idea on a long tec dive? Flutter kicking stirring up silt and touching bottom? The annoying voice overs add to the credibility question. Now, I don't have the experience to do a 380 ft. dive nor do I know the people involved who are reportedly an "elite team", but this video seems really strange. How does an elite diver not monitor their gas and run out of gas? After doing 3.5 hours of deco, that looks like an aggressive exit of the water on to the boat. Anyone with 400 ft experience find this video odd?

It all seemed very strange to me also, which was why I started this thread. I believe that one or more of those divers in that program are dead now, killed doing one of those deep fish dives.

 

[Bob DBF]

Two die in diving tragedy - KwaZulu-Natal | IOL News

Durban - “F*** off.” These were the last words spoken by experienced diver Peter Timm as he pushed rescuers out of the way and attempted to resuscitate his dying diving partner – seconds before he collapsed and died, possibly from the “bends”.

Timm, 51, was one of three divers reportedly hired by Ezemvelo Wildlife and the SA Association for Marine Biological Research to recover a piece of technical equipment that had fallen off a research vessel near the Aliwal Shoal, off eMkhomazi, last week.

The article continues on about Peter Timm and his deep fish dives.


Bob

 

[vancouverdiver]

Sorry to hear.

 

[AfterDark]

There's also a thread in SB's A&I about this incident that probably contains more details.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ac...shoal-south-africa.html?highlight=Coelacanths