Wreck Penetration?

[pir8]

I don't think there are any correct answers in this debate.

 

[MBH]

Who trained the trainers?

My overhead instructor was trained by and dove with Sheck Exley.
Sam Miller may not be very impressed by him but I sure as hell am.

 

[Nick_W]

I don't think there are any correct answers in this debate.

Except that sometimes penetration can be recreational.

 

[LiteHedded]

Except that sometimes penetration can be recreational.

definitely

 

[bamamedic]

definitely

Now, that was just too funny....

 

[Nick_W]

definitely

Its nice to see I'm not the only one who can't help but chuckle for all the wrong reasons whenever this topic comes up.

 

[The Anchor]

I think it needs to be a personal choice. Look at the swim through/ overhead you are planning on entering and decide for your self how dangerous you feel it is. If you think you can handle it then go for it. Just keep in mind that if you get stuck and feel that half lung full of air that means your tank is empty, you may re-evaluate how dangerous the enviroment is and by then it is too late. Kind of like suicide by jummping, when you realize that there is nothing in your life that cant be fixed except that you have just jummped off the building.

Something else to consider is that scuba is clasified as an extream sport. Would you sky dive without training? If not, then why would you dive an over head without training?

My personal choice is to remain out of those enviroments until I am trained.

 

[Nick_W]

Do you think if enough of us asked for it, we could get PADI to start a course so we could all become Recreational Penetration Intructors?
















I'm sorry, I think I'm done now.

 

[Walter]

My overhead instructor was trained by and dove with Sheck Exley.
Sam Miller may not be very impressed by him but I sure as hell am.

Who trained Sheck?

 

[bamamedic]

I was sitting around the Fire Station late last night and was just watching videos on youtube of people diving on different wrecks. I noticed in a majority of the videos that all the divers were going in and out of the wrecks. One of the videos was of an airplane wreck. They would just go in one door and out the other or may just turn and go into the cockpit for a very brief period of time. I was always taught that not to go into any overhead environments if your not trained. Now not saying that they werent trained or whatever but could an OW diver still go into something like a small cessna for a very brief period of time and still be ok? I have been on dives before off the coast of panama city and have noticed OW divers doing this very same thing. Just wanting your thought on this. Thanks

LOL...it must be nice being a firefighter...all that spare time to mess around on YouTube, while us paramedics work our asses off (just kidding!)

I guess you just have to weigh the risks and decide whether that's an acceptable risk for you.

However, I'm in no position to tell anyone what's safe or not...I'm the official queen of doing stupid things underwater and living to tell about it

At ABWA on March 1st, you'll have lots of opportunities to mess around with swim throughs (there's a couple of fire trucks, some gigantic concrete tube-thingies, and one really silty school bus) and hopefully, I'll have my canister light by then, so we'll actually be able to see what the hell we're doing down there!

Anyways, you have a great day....