Post-rescue depression???

[dumpsterDiver]

I routinely take a beating here for diving a jacket BC with a huge lift capacity, but more than once I've been able to float a distressed diver while taking a little time to figure out what's going on.

The extra available buoyancy is well worth (to me anyway) any additional drag. Also considering that I have three diving speeds, consisting of "slow" and "really slow" and "stopped", drag really isn't an issue.

flots

I noticed the other day that the tag on my scuba pro bc says it has something like 65 lbs of lift. Not sure if I believe it is that much, but it does provide some options.

 

[toddthecat]

I routinely take a beating here for diving a jacket BC with a huge lift capacity

If you aren't BP/W and using Hoggy *oink oink oink* regulators than you're as good as dead according to some people...

*cue Chair Pie*

 

[DandyDon]

Crass, I am not sure why you are so defensive here but I would be willing to bet it is the same reason you feel the way you do. It is the same reason you came here to share it.

Of course you want to learn from this but in the end, you saved two people. Try and allow yourself to be happy and proud of that fact.

I think he was upset because someone told him he did not do his best - even tho he did, and he succeeded.

The good news is that he is talking it out, defending his efforts that he should be damned proud of, and hopefully feeling better about saving two diver who need babysitting.

If anyone wants to ridicule someone for not blowing air in the wing during the heat of the emergency, jump on the lady who was sinking after failing to turn her air back on, blow it herself, or escape her heavy kit.

 

[pocky21]

Crass, I saw this thread yesterday but didn't have the means to respond. You are definately not alone in your incident and the feelings that follow. SHTF for me earlier this year when I was tagging along with a self reliant class. My "buddy" swam off in a hurry during the SAC rate swim and shot an SMB from 80' - with 500psi in his tank STARTING the ascent. He dropped the spool on the way up, and decided it was worth his life to go retrieve it. I found him on the bottom, entangled in his own line and panicking. I grabbed his tank valve, pressed the button on my drysuit, and had my first dive towards the Poseidon Missile distinctive specialty. There were a multitude of preventable factors that contributed to the incident, and needless to say he did not pass the course.

The next few hours completely overtook me as I came to the realization that diving can be incredibly dangerous, that even "experienced" divers can be complete idiots, and that had I not made that split second decision to go back down and get him, I'd have also taken part in my first body recovery. A lot of things to take in all at once, and a lot of "what if's" that you have to work through. My stress level only increased during the process, as a few hours post-dive my arm went numb and tingly - and I found myself on a chopper, chamber bound.

I'm still not 100% since the incident, I'm very paranoid diving with other people that I don't personally know as divers. I had very little opportunity to discuss the incident in that "golden" 48 hour period, as most of it was consumed with treating my DCS hit. I'm glad to see that you fared much better, and that those involved all lived to tell about it, and please remember that you have the support of all of us here.

 

[tracydr]

First of all I think you did a great job. A few months ago I was involved in a diving accident. See link, I am the partner of the victim.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ac...ccident-after-diving-gal%E1pagos-islands.html

After we were back in the Netherlands I went back to work. I had the same feeling like you, was depressed in a kind of haze. After a few weeks I went to the docter and was diagnost with PTSD, after 4 treatments with the EMDR I feel a lot better.
I hope you feel better but if you don't, don't wait to long to get some professional advice.
As for the comments some people give, just ignore the one's that upset you. In the months after the accident I was irritated very quickley. Just try to ignore, avoid things that trigger this reaction.

I wish you the best.

I'm glad you found a provider able to do EMDR. Many providers will waste your time trying to talk this problem through. This type of problem is exactly what EMDR is designed for.
I,too,have been treated with EMDR. It's an amazing type of therapy and the great thing is that it can help you much more quickly and effectively than all the talk in the world. It truly is the treatment of choice for post-traumatic incident treatment.