Again, you're all just speculating facts. No one here really knows what went down that day. I will say this. Whatever we did that day was between us. How deep we went is really none of your concern. I have dove with ALOT of folks from this board and nobody has ever felt that I "lead" them into a deeper water or a dangerrous situation. And BTW, I totally discouraged them (my fellow divers that day of the hammerhead) from doing the dive below 150ft. I was not the one jumping around waving my hands say" Oh, Oh, let's go there!" It just wasn't the case. And some of you continue to harp on me. So do what you have to do to sleep good at night. I know I just woke up from 9 hours of great sleep, so none if your rants are bothering me. Also, for the record, I did sign up yesterday for the IANTD Deep Diver course. I'll keep everyone informed how's it going.
Bull! You made it our concern when you posted the videos and bragged about it. A little late for covering your butt now. And the IANTD deep course will NOT qualify you to lead dives to those depths. It will not qualify you to teach people to go to those depths. All it will allow you to do is dive to 130 ft. the IANTD deep course is not a technical course according to their web site. IANTD does not endorse or train for deep air dives. What they will do is offer a normoxic trimix for those who wish to dive between 130 and 200 and are not confortable doing it on air. They will not train you to do it on air however. And being that the deep course is within rec depths I don't see them showing you how to use the proper gear configurations as well. Nice try but if you wanna blow smoke better make sure you got the right fuel for the fire.
That's funny! But the first part is probably true. When I worked in Thailand, there was a Canadian female instructor doing an Advanced course with two people. She had a DMT with her. Half way down while making the Deep dive portion of the Adv. course, the older of the two students starts grasping at his chest. She leaves him with the DMT and she continued to the 100' bottom with the other student. Well, dude takes off for the surface, DMT lets him go. His chest was ballooned out my the time he hit the surface. That night, she packed up everything and slipped out in the middle of night leaving work, boyfriend, and everything. The next day the police were looking for her and she was no where to be found. I am sure she got her license revoked...or I hope so. The autopsy report show the eldery man had a heartattack underwater. The lung-expansion injury was secondary. Either way, she was at fault for leaving a distressed diver with a not-yet professional and going on down with the diver who was fine. Talk about lessons learned. I have seen alot out here, and I learn from others mistakes. Trust me when I say...I am as safe a diver as you'll ever find. I definitely want to expand my knowledge, thus making it safer for the dives I do, solo, with family, friends or guests. I am looking now into Trimix diving. I don't want to take folks into deep waters...But I wouldn't mind seeing what's down there!
