Instructor bent after running out of air at 40m

[Scared Silly]

Enjoy shedding this story ...

The scuba dive that crushed my spine

It had been meticulously planned - a deep dive for four experienced scuba diving instructors. But halfway through the session, two oxygen tanks ran out, setting off a catastrophic chain of events.

So meticulously planned that not one but two out of gas ... then all four.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Yeah, if I'm in a foursome and out of air the first thing I'm going to do is write notes. It's amazing that four people who couldn't watch their SPGs managed to befriend each other.

 

[JohnnyC]

The article makes it sound like, "something went wrong," as opposed to, "Darwin cracked a smile as another group of idiots attempt to cleanse the gene pool."

 

[boulderjohn]

I for one am going to suggest that we all resist the obvious temptations to talk about how absolutely inconceivable it is that 4 scuba instructors would all go completely out of air on a routine dive. For me, it is so utterly inconceivable that I would be further tempted to call BS on it all, but with no clear evidence to the contrary, I will assume it is true.

Once we assume that it is indeed true, what more is there to say?

 

[ScubaD1veDiv@]

Unbeknown to most people and the one silver lining to this tragic “unavoidable” mass out-of-air near death event was that these extremely experienced professional divers became technical advisors on the movie ‘47 Meters Down’.

 

[soggybadger]

I want to rip this to shreds but its a bit harsh when the guy is in a chair for the rest of his life. As above plenty of time to write !

 

[soggybadger]

Also someone needs to contact all his former student about retraining.

 

[ScubaD1veDiv@]

I want to rip this to shreds but its a bit harsh when the guy is in a chair for the rest of his life. As above plenty of time to write !

You are right. I couldn’t resist the urge. I’m definitely going to Hell.

 

[JohnnyC]

It's certainly not inconceivable. It certainly is farmyard stupid.

 

[Stoo]

Our local Hyperbaric Doc (There's a chamber in Tobermory) has a saying... "We can fix bent. We can't fix dead". He's a big proponent for getting the hell up when all else fails.

I'd love to know more about the treatment run and subsequent hyperbaric treatments. I know that hits are unpredictable, but four hours isn't an obscenely long time. It's a little difficult to understand how the resulting injury would be so catastrophic. I would have expected weeks of treatments being involved.

What's even harder to understand, is how four so-called Instructors can all run out of air. I'd love to know what cereal boxes they cut their c-cards out of. Sad...