The Monty Halls' programme was complete and utter crap. He has admitted off camera he was told so say certain thins and massively over dramatise for the cameras.
Ultimately if you're wearing a really really thick wetsuit and diving a wing which is nowhere near big enough for the dive then yeah you'll get heavier and heavier as you go down as the suit compresses. Whether its so much that a sensibly weighted diver simply cannot become buoyant i seriously doubt.
Possibly if you were *TRYING* to do it you could wear a single tank travel BCD with 10kg lift, hang 4 or 5 tanks off it, stick on a 7mm+7mm wetsuit and do a 100m dive. It might be an issue then but then you are actively planning to kill yourself.
With proper equipment, planning and training it simply cannot happen.
The whole programme was crap. Mythical curses and all that. Simple fact is the blue hole is a very simple technical dive site. The 55m arch is a 20m long tunnel and a very very simply normoxic trimix dive (or even an ER dive). The 100m bottom is a very simple advanced trimix dive. Good conditions, good visibility, little or no current.
Nearly all the deaths there are by people without the current training, equipment and attitude. A lot of the bodies down there are wearing single tanks for example.
Trying to dive very deep on air is idiotic, doing it on singles takes it to a whole new level of stupidity and that's what goes on all the time there. Ive been coming up through 80m there before now (hypoxic trimix OC) and was passed by an Egyptian guide and 2 russians going DOWN past me each wearing a single 12l of air and 1 gecko computer between them. You see it all the time.
Yuri Lipsky who accidentally filmed his own death there was doing an 80m+ dive on air. He toxed. It happens. That's why people shouldnt do it. No curse there, just stupidity mixed with bravado.
Blue Hole has fewer incidents from *properly trained and equipped* technical divers then a lot of open sea tech sites the same depth - its benign.
Quite simply, use the correct exposure suit (id say dry over really thick wetsuits but ive dived it before in a 7mm+5mm shortie without issue) and use the correct size wing for the tanks required. Dual bladder if its diving wet and you have a couple of stages. Then the too-negative situation simply cannot happen.
Ultimately if you're wearing a really really thick wetsuit and diving a wing which is nowhere near big enough for the dive then yeah you'll get heavier and heavier as you go down as the suit compresses. Whether its so much that a sensibly weighted diver simply cannot become buoyant i seriously doubt.
Possibly if you were *TRYING* to do it you could wear a single tank travel BCD with 10kg lift, hang 4 or 5 tanks off it, stick on a 7mm+7mm wetsuit and do a 100m dive. It might be an issue then but then you are actively planning to kill yourself.
With proper equipment, planning and training it simply cannot happen.
The whole programme was crap. Mythical curses and all that. Simple fact is the blue hole is a very simple technical dive site. The 55m arch is a 20m long tunnel and a very very simply normoxic trimix dive (or even an ER dive). The 100m bottom is a very simple advanced trimix dive. Good conditions, good visibility, little or no current.
Nearly all the deaths there are by people without the current training, equipment and attitude. A lot of the bodies down there are wearing single tanks for example.
Trying to dive very deep on air is idiotic, doing it on singles takes it to a whole new level of stupidity and that's what goes on all the time there. Ive been coming up through 80m there before now (hypoxic trimix OC) and was passed by an Egyptian guide and 2 russians going DOWN past me each wearing a single 12l of air and 1 gecko computer between them. You see it all the time.
Yuri Lipsky who accidentally filmed his own death there was doing an 80m+ dive on air. He toxed. It happens. That's why people shouldnt do it. No curse there, just stupidity mixed with bravado.
Blue Hole has fewer incidents from *properly trained and equipped* technical divers then a lot of open sea tech sites the same depth - its benign.
Quite simply, use the correct exposure suit (id say dry over really thick wetsuits but ive dived it before in a 7mm+5mm shortie without issue) and use the correct size wing for the tanks required. Dual bladder if its diving wet and you have a couple of stages. Then the too-negative situation simply cannot happen.
