Eric Sedletzky
Contributor
In the last few days/weeks I’ve noticed an uptick in some very strange dive stories involving some trust me deep dives into deco, people running out of air with deco obligations, crazy deep dives by some Russian group (which was extremely painfull to try and read, but I think I got the jist of it). There was a vid posted about another completely disfunctional dive in the St. Lawrence River by a guy who didn’t even seem to have the skills to clear a mask at depth and had no idea what coming up slow meant or sticking with buddies. All this seems bad enough, but a few of them actually glorified some of this disfunction as if it’s almost normal and just part of their diving life.
There was one line that stuck with me when a gal said “it was the funnest dive ever!!”. This was after just about running out of air with deco obligation and several of her group actually running OOA.
Reading some of this stuff and watching some of these videos is like the twilight zone. The one about the absolute freak out with ripped off mask and those eyeballs was extremely unsettling. How are these people getting certified to even get this far?
Am I imagining things or is this something that becoming an epidemic? Do these people even know how horrible their diving and common sense really is???
Or is this just the forward progession of our new online social media world where everybody puts their entire life on display for everyone to see, good and bad?
There was one line that stuck with me when a gal said “it was the funnest dive ever!!”. This was after just about running out of air with deco obligation and several of her group actually running OOA.
Reading some of this stuff and watching some of these videos is like the twilight zone. The one about the absolute freak out with ripped off mask and those eyeballs was extremely unsettling. How are these people getting certified to even get this far?
Am I imagining things or is this something that becoming an epidemic? Do these people even know how horrible their diving and common sense really is???
Or is this just the forward progession of our new online social media world where everybody puts their entire life on display for everyone to see, good and bad?