Diver Death in Cayman

[Cave Diver]

I do value your opinions and I will consider it if I can find one that is small and I can carry it without strapping it to my leg and looking like Zena Warrior Princess.

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[fosterboxermom]

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Thank you, but it still looks like I have to strap it to either my arm or leg. Right?

 

[fosterboxermom]

Thank you, but it still looks like I have to strap it to either my arm or leg. Right?

I guess I could zip tie it to my BC.

 

[Cave Diver]

Thank you, but it still looks like I have to strap it to either my arm or leg. Right?

That one is designed to be strapped to the corrugated BC inflator hose if I recall correctly.

Could also be threaded through some of the velcro straps found on BC's, or secured with zip ties.

 

[InTheDrink]

Mine is positioned horizontally on my RHS BC strap. Easy to retrieve with left or right hand.

Strapping it to leg or arm or corrugated hose is very nineties.

 

[fosterboxermom]

Mine is positioned horizontally on my RHS BC strap. Easy to retrieve with left or right hand.

Strapping it to leg or arm or corrugated hose is very nineties.

Thanks for telling me that. I dont want to look like a

 

[Diver0001]

That's not necessarily true.

Maybe he was bumbling along, not paying attention to anything (due to the narc), finally looked at his gauge at 300 feet, and hit the button.

With all due respect.... I don't think you could get to 300ft without realizing tht something was terribly wrong.

At about 165 I can "hear" that I'm pretty darned deep.... I don't know if you can follow that but anyone who has dived at those depths on air knows what I mean. I've been to a little over 200 on air and was thoroughly bonked.

If you ask me there's no way you could get to 300 by accident without being well aware that you had landed in a sh.t storm from here to Tokyo.

R..

 

[fosterboxermom]

With all due respect.... I don't think you could get to 300ft without realizing tht something was terribly wrong.

At about 165 I can "hear" that I'm pretty darned deep.... I don't know if you can follow that but anyone who has dived at those depths on air knows what I mean. I've been to a little over 200 on air and was thoroughly bonked.

If you ask me there's no way you could get to 300 by accident without being well aware that you had landed in a sh.t storm from here to Tokyo.

R..

I pretty much know he didn't mean to go to over 300'. What I know from his puter is at 14 mins he was at 184' and at 14 mins he was at 199' then from what I was told it looks like he was free falling to the max depth of 346' then from what I understand he shot up to the surface in 2 minutes.

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

With all due respect.... I don't think you could get to 300ft without realizing tht something was terribly wrong.

At about 165 I can "hear" that I'm pretty darned deep.... I don't know if you can follow that but anyone who has dived at those depths on air knows what I mean. I've been to a little over 200 on air and was thoroughly bonked.

If you ask me there's no way you could get to 300 by accident without being well aware that you had landed in a sh.t storm from here to Tokyo.

R..

Diver0001: He may have reached 184 feet (per what was recorded on his computer) intentionally, but from there may have totally "lost it" to narcosis and descended rather quickly without being 100% aware of it.

I've been that deep on air too (in the 200' range), and like you said Diver0001, each time I was also near-totally "bonked" by narcosis :shocked2: . It took massive concentration to hold my depth because I was still "mid-water" at that depth, looking into a blue abyss with nothing for depth reference as I waited as a safety diver for another diver going, well, deeper. All I had to look at was the bubble trail from the "deep" diver.

Despite the effects of heavy narcosis, my personal experience was that you do have "moments of clarity".

In the accident we are discussing, I could envision an "Oh My God" moment, a frantic jab at the inflator button, and an uncontrolled ride to the surface, all while heavily narc'ed. The difference with this happening with a more experienced diver would be the experienced diver would "hopefully" be thinking "gotta slow down at 100 feet, gotta stop and deco before I surface".

Best wishes.

 

[Thalassamania]

What where the condition of his ear drums and the mucus membranes around his Eustachian canals? See this is where access to a competent autopsy might help.