Ooa ?

[Ari]

But than I remembered that on one of my dives I did go low on air and altough I did not really have to, I used my buddies pony for the accent and the safety stop. Just for fun. I could, probably, have done it without help.

I guess that a real OOA situation would have been less fun.

Ari

 

[Liquid]

Had a couple of times. but NEVER was I surprized by it. It alwais happened exactly when I knew It's going to happen, probobly when chasing a fish during spear fishing. We all know we cant stop the chase just becouse the gauge shows 0!!!!

I actualy dived once for over 10 minuets with 0 on my gauge....

 

[Uncle Pug]

Dead Man diving!

Deeaad Man diving here...

:reaper:

 

[scuberd]

I have never run out of air myself, but on my AOW dives, the cocky guy had to breath off of his girlfriend when he ran out of air.

 

[boydski]

Right after we just started diving, swimming too hard against a current in Puget Sound, my wife was over breathing and sucked her tank down as we were heading in to shallow water for a safety stop. It was my first dive in a dry suit, we handled the out of air situation fine, but it was a challenge to maintain buoyancy control using an integrated air source.

Another time, while practicing in a lake, my smooth new steel tank slid out of a brand new BC strap, and pulled the quick connect loose from my integrated air-source. I passed my primary to my wife ( practicing ), exhaled hard to clear my safe second, and tried to suck in some air, and there was nothing there. Suprise, suprise, suprise! It lead to some very entertaining hand signals as I tried to convince my wife to give me my regulator back!

We're both much safer and smarter now!

I also remember an incident in Cozumel, with a young lady on her first dive. At 80' on Santa Rosa Wall, she spit out her regulator because she was convinced she wasn't getting enough air! Yikes. She was actually with another group, but our DiveMaster and I arrived at about the same time, and he stuffed her reg back in her mouth. DM then "escorted" her to the surface.

Boydski

 

[Uncle Pug]

Originally posted by boydski
it was a challenge to maintain buoyancy control using an integrated air source.

and pulled the quick connect loose from my integrated air-source.

We're both much safer and smarter now!

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You still have the integrated air-source?

 

[WreckWriter]

OOA...............

I did it once. Damn near died too....

It was in the early 1980s. I hadn't been diving in a few years and was making a return. I had done a couple shallow dives but nothing strenuous yet. My skills were rusty at best as my original training had been in 1973 before the advent of such nice things as BCs, octopi, and SPGs.

My buddy and I were diving off a small private boat on a wreck off Miami in 100', the current was smoking, the viz poor. We were both wearing single 80s, I had an octopus, my buddy did not.

Strictly thru inattention we got downcurrent from our anchor line. At this point I had about 1000 psi left, my buddy had a bit more.

Hugging the bottom we struggled to get back to the hook. About the time my hand hit the anchor line my tank gave it's last gasp. I was totally OOA at 100 fsw and I had no friggin idea what to do.

As I started to perform my best imitation of a submarine launched cruise missile my buddy reached me. He grabbed me by the valve, spun me around and offered up his reg. We buddy breathed to the surface.

The next day I enrolled in an AOW class.

Tom

 

[boydski]

Originally posted by Uncle Pug

You still have the integrated air-source?

Yes, we still have them, but rely on a Pony with a second regulator for OOA. Even though we use our BC's very little for buoyancy now, and rely primarily on our Dry suits, so buoyancy control while breathing off an Integrated Air Source is not really difficult.

Most of those problems happened several years ago when we were just starting out.

Boydski

 

[Scubarescuepd]

wow when i first thought about this, i wasn't sure it was gonna make the ten 10 list of poll questions.

Anyways, My reasons for asking was to use this as a training lesson for others, even if you plan you dives as you should curtain situations come up, that's why training is repeated time and time again, might see boring and redundant but it'll save your life..

Glad to know everyone does check their for the most part spg or computers.

From time to time we do an OOA situation dive, keeping up on the training... i suggest if you're a frequent diver to train in OOA at least bi-weekly. depending how often you're in the water...

i personally think that it doesn't matter what certification you hold, it's how often you dive and train.

who's more experienced a dive master who dives seasonally or an advanced scuba diver certified who dives weekly and continuesly re trains on scuba skills ?

 

[MikeFerrara]

I have seen people run out of air. Never has it been me or one of my students. I can't believ the number of people who have reported running out of air while with an instructor. New divers/students sometimes use air quickly. Instructors watch students supply and more importantly teach them to watch/calculate/anticipate theirs for a living. I don't know what to say about an instructor who fails in that aspect of their job. I know what to think but not what to say. An OOA situation caused by something other than a freak equipment failure implies a failure in the planning process. We (read as the industry) don't spend enough time teaching new divers how to not run out of air. By all means, practice OOA drills but don't neglect to practice or learn propper gas management.