Kayla
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My thoughts and prayers to family and friends..... so tragic to lose someone who was just doing what they love..
Kayla
Kayla
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Originally posted by WreckWriter
I can't speak to the CCR death but I have experience on Arabia. She was actually my first cold water dive.
Before I went to Tobermory lots of folks cautioned me about this dive. I had never been in water below 60 degrees F.
When I got there it turned out that the scheduled shallow afternoon trip had been cancelled but one guy from the shop was going to the Arabia, I was invited to tag along as I was an instructor with many logged deep dives.
Sure, it was cold, it was dark too. I had a drysuit, I had a light. Quite frankly I found the dive fairly easy and uneventful. Nice wreck sure, tough dive, nope.
I dove the Forest City a few days later and found it much more challenging (and better in general).
Why do folks die on Arabia? My opinion is that it has been so widely built up that everyone who visits Tobermory feels they must dive it. When that happens you end up with clowns in deep water, always bad news, rarely mysterious.
Tom
Originally posted by Rooster1
I talked to my instructor who has been diving there as far back as 20 years and his simple answer was , poor planning, poor training, and he said it was just people not checking there guages.
It seem to have a mistique about it. About 8 years ago, a friend and I started to dive her, he had never dove her, and at about 60' he aborted the dive and his reason was, he felt "strange". The next week we dove the Munson which is 125' dark and cold and he had no problem. I ask why he could dive one but not the other and he said it was the "ARABIA" and all the mystery attached to her. I have never "felt" this myself, but have been on boats were divers seemed awed by the wreck and the mistique.Originally posted by WreckWriter
Why do folks die on Arabia? My opinion is that it has been so widely built up that everyone who visits Tobermory feels they must dive it. When that happens you end up with clowns in deep water, always bad news, rarely mysterious.
Tom
Originally posted by divedude
I ask why he could dive one but not the other and he said it was the "ARABIA" and all the mystery attached to her. I have never "felt" this myself, but have been on boats were divers seemed awed by the wreck and the mistique.
Originally posted by WreckWriter
I can't speak to the CCR death but I have experience on Arabia. She was actually my first cold water dive.
Before I went to Tobermory lots of folks cautioned me about this dive. I had never been in water below 60 degrees F.
When I got there it turned out that the scheduled shallow afternoon trip had been cancelled but one guy from the shop was going to the Arabia, I was invited to tag along as I was an instructor with many logged deep dives.
Sure, it was cold, it was dark too. I had a drysuit, I had a light. Quite frankly I found the dive fairly easy and uneventful. Nice wreck sure, tough dive, nope.
I dove the Forest City a few days later and found it much more challenging (and better in general).
Why do folks die on Arabia? My opinion is that it has been so widely built up that everyone who visits Tobermory feels they must dive it. When that happens you end up with clowns in deep water, always bad news, rarely mysterious.
Tom