RickI
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I had no idea the holds of the Sea Emperor hopper barge were so well interconnected. Ended up doing some runs along the accessible length of the vessel below the hull of the inverted barge. The paired slits in the hull cast a surprising amount of light into the holds helping the video'ing. Apologies to the scuba diver I surprised on that first ascent. I didn't mean to cut it quite that close on ascending out of the wreck after about a 140 ft. run down the holds.
I was happy the scuba diver with the severe buoyancy problem didn't suffer any barotrauma. I rode up after seeing the upper portion of that feet first ascent from around 70 ft. to see if the guy needed help. He popped his mask off and showing his lower face covered in a lot of blood which surprised me. He wasn't aspirating blood and it seemed likely to just be a particularly severe new diver nasal/sinus capillary bleed off from a first deeper dive. Still, I towed him to the boat pronto for the crew to check him out.
[video=vimeo;73661655]https://vimeo.com/73661655#at=0[/video]
The vimeo clip keeps freezing on me, so I uploaded one to youtube as well.
[video=youtube;_OqtRk5jdgg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OqtRk5jdgg[/video]
There are some still shots at: Video - Free Diving Interior Of The Sea Emperor - FKA Kiteboarding Forums
---------- Post added September 4th, 2013 at 09:26 AM ----------
I've been having some unusual problems with vimeo and so uploaded a clip to youtube as well. Is anyone else having playing problems with vimeo?
Thanks!
I was happy the scuba diver with the severe buoyancy problem didn't suffer any barotrauma. I rode up after seeing the upper portion of that feet first ascent from around 70 ft. to see if the guy needed help. He popped his mask off and showing his lower face covered in a lot of blood which surprised me. He wasn't aspirating blood and it seemed likely to just be a particularly severe new diver nasal/sinus capillary bleed off from a first deeper dive. Still, I towed him to the boat pronto for the crew to check him out.
[video=vimeo;73661655]https://vimeo.com/73661655#at=0[/video]
The vimeo clip keeps freezing on me, so I uploaded one to youtube as well.
[video=youtube;_OqtRk5jdgg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OqtRk5jdgg[/video]
There are some still shots at: Video - Free Diving Interior Of The Sea Emperor - FKA Kiteboarding Forums
---------- Post added September 4th, 2013 at 09:26 AM ----------
I've been having some unusual problems with vimeo and so uploaded a clip to youtube as well. Is anyone else having playing problems with vimeo?
Thanks!
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