Diving the "Hole"

[Splitlip]

I have been following this thread on the ST forum.
Just wondering if anybody here has experience with this one (or others).

Anyone dove "the hole"? - Scuba Forum - Scuba Diving Forums and Discussion Board

 

[tschmitt]

Is this for real?! Is it safe to do this ?? Aren't you going from 0ft to XX ft a 'little' faster than a safe decent rate?

 

[Splitlip]

I don't know. Never done one.
Figured if anybody had experience, I would find him or her here.

 

[mm2002]

Is this for real?! Is it safe to do this ?? Aren't you going from 0ft to XX ft a 'little' faster than a safe decent rate?

As a newely certified "hole diver" I can tell you that decent rate really only matters in water. In air, you can descend a lot faster than you would want to in water. You're initial descent in the "hole" is through air, so it's A-OK. Is it safe?? Well like anything else it's safe till somebody gets hurt.

 

[Nemrod]

I hate to tell y'all this but that "hole" is a turbine intake or outfall. N

 

[knotical]

How can these folks equalize with their tongues in their cheeks?

 

[BMR]

We certified hole divers dont want you to think these are fake:

YouTube - Hole in the water

 

[vshearer]

Gee, think it's on the list of "Notice to Mariners"? Hate to hit that at night in a boat.

On a side note, in Rock Sound Eleuthra when the tide is running off the banks there are sometimes whirlpools over holes that run under the island out to the Atlantic. I used to dive those. Get sucked in and you don't know where you are going.