For all the Scuba Divers out there!

[StainCast]

If you're like me, and you loveee Scuba Diving, then you have GOT to go to Egypt. We've been to Egypt (Sharm El Shiekh) for the past 5 years, just so that me and dad can go scuba diving. A few weeks ago we were in a boat about to go for a dive in Shark Bay to see if we could find some Oceanic White Tips, when i was told about the Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt. Apparently it's a large Archway in the rock, which you can dive into from one side, and come out of the other side, and surface. Anyway, i was told that it was nicknamed "Divers Cemetary" because of how many divers had in fact Missed the opening to the hole, gone down too far, and got Nitrogen Narcosis, ultimately meaning that couldn't get themselves together to surface or ascend. (Nitrogen Narcosis makes you feel really stupid and makes you act childish, kind of like being drunk, but it can be stopped by simply ascending a bit and then going back down.)

But when we got back to appartment, i switched on the computer and found this really eerie, shocking, and quite disturbing Video of Yuri Lipski who was a well known underwater diver, and he got Nitrogen Narcosis, and actually missed the arc and fell to his death at 90 metres, at which point his Narcosis begins to make him kick around, meaning he lost his fins, and his mask. Divers found him a few days later at the bottom of the arc (dead, obv.. :p)

It just goes to show, Don't EVER leave your buddy!!! haha

So, if you could be bothered to read that, here's the video, (and i understand it might be a bit disturbing watching someone's last moments hehe) so don't watch it if you get upset easily.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eejQPUyeNiY

[Doctor_Reef]

Yep....Great dive place but you have to keep your head and your buddy close at hand.... Easy to end up dead... One thing also that this vid shows is that this "Instructor" was not following good diving practices... He was descending without a buddy, he was descending way to fast, and going well beyond recreational diving limits...

A recreational diver is not to exceed 130ft... He was over 280ft deep 81 meters when he looked at his computer... It sounded like he was in trouble early in the dive... if a buddy would have been close this may not of happened!!! Not good... And we will never really know what caused this....

[StainCast]

I've searched about it on the internet and many people seemed to believe it was suicide. That would explain why he broke all those rules.

Not good. I think it's quite scary haha

[JWright]

I spent half my career in the US Navy as a diver (just like the ones working on the I-35 bridge collapse in Minnesota) and I cannot emphasize enough the importance of staying with your buddy.

In the SCUBA phase of Navy diving school we were required to be within six feet of our buddy at all times, even on dry land. If we violated this rule, the instructors made sure we stayed near our buddy by requiring the two of us to carry a six-foot length of ¾-inch die-lock anchor chain.

http://johnwright.smugmug.com/photos/158771159-S.jpg

[Doctor_Reef]

That was some good training John!!!! Things can go wrong very quickly and often if your buddy isn't close things end up bad!!!!

Stain Cast.... I don't know that I agree that this was a suicide mission from the video...but you never know!!!

[StainCast]

i just dont see why he would have allowed himself to decend so quickly. If he was struggling he could have dropped his weightbelt and done a CESA. He was a very experienced diver.

It's strange haha

[Doctor_Reef]

Yep, it is weird.... He could have unless he had something going on in his head, narcosis, etc...