OP
pacificgal
Rest in Peace...
I owe my life to my two dive buddies, and hope to dive with them both again someday. They both said that it wasn't my fault, and that they would be willing to dive with me again, but I won't be doing it at Monastery. I had another incident with my reg. last October when I was in Cabo, I was at 50 ft. and my reg. quit giving me just air, I was getting a mixture of air and water. I switched to my secondary and it was the same thing. I flagged my buddy who then got the DM, and the DM assessed my attitude about it, didn't see any fear in my eyes so gave me his primary and used his secondary. We didn't immediately surface, we finished the dive, to which I ended up getting applause from the rest of the divers for not freaking out. I have survived much worse, faulty reg. at 50 ft. was nothing. At least the water was warm and he had enough air for the both of us.
I was happy to come across this board, I really didn't know what happened that day, and hearing these reports helps fill in some holes. All I know is that the water was really cold, about 46 degrees, my Henderson Hyperstretch wetsuit probably was what stood between having brain damage and not (which is a miracle I didn't sustain brain damage) the cold water probably helped too, and the fact that my dive buddies knew their CPR/mouth-to-mouth.
Some people may consider what I went through to be something unfortunate that happened, I see it as a blessing. I never would have appreciated life as much as I do now had I not almost lost it.
The moral of my story: know your limitations, have dive buddies you can trust, and go out and live your life, don't let it slip through your fingers without doing the things that you want to do.
I was happy to come across this board, I really didn't know what happened that day, and hearing these reports helps fill in some holes. All I know is that the water was really cold, about 46 degrees, my Henderson Hyperstretch wetsuit probably was what stood between having brain damage and not (which is a miracle I didn't sustain brain damage) the cold water probably helped too, and the fact that my dive buddies knew their CPR/mouth-to-mouth.
Some people may consider what I went through to be something unfortunate that happened, I see it as a blessing. I never would have appreciated life as much as I do now had I not almost lost it.
The moral of my story: know your limitations, have dive buddies you can trust, and go out and live your life, don't let it slip through your fingers without doing the things that you want to do.
