lizardland
Active Member
My stupidest near miss is one that is totally unimpressive, nothing happened and it utterly scared the shit out of me.
I was diving a KISS classic, standing in about a foot of water while putting my fins on, DSV in my mouth. I felt weird, like the walls were closing in, spat the loop out and took a big breath. Saved my life. When I looked at the displays they were reading low, cant recall what but <0.10. I saw it all play out in front of me, I was ready to pass out quietly, right in front of everyone. I'd be face down in a foot of water and I know it would've been a good few minutes before someone did something. It's human nature, face down diver fully kitted up... people assume it's alright, few assume the worst.
Like I said, nothing happened, it was a non-event. But it really scared me and after that I ran my loop on pure oxygen anywhere near the surface, both manual and eccr.
Other than that, my worst oc stupid moment was a solo cave dive. Didnt bother clipping my stages to the line on the way in as there was nowhere convenient at the drop point. Doing so would've pulled the line in an awkward spot so I just ditched them on a nice shelf of rock.
Had a good dive, turned and began the long swim out. And had a triple light failure. Murphy smiled on me that day, as my last backup was flickering and dying I saw something green on the floor of the cave... a dropped SL4. God knows how long it had been there, picked it up as my backup sputtered out. I felt for the switch, flicked it on and it gave out the weakest and most wonderful faint brown glow. It was enough to find the stage bottles, I had nowhere near enough backgas to exit without them, and got me close enough to the entrance I could exit by the ambient light.
This was in France. I dropped my kit, took off my suit and walked into the next village without saying a word to anyone. I bought the best bottle of wine I could afford, walked back to the cave and sat by the river and drank it. Nothing has ever tasted better.
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I was diving a KISS classic, standing in about a foot of water while putting my fins on, DSV in my mouth. I felt weird, like the walls were closing in, spat the loop out and took a big breath. Saved my life. When I looked at the displays they were reading low, cant recall what but <0.10. I saw it all play out in front of me, I was ready to pass out quietly, right in front of everyone. I'd be face down in a foot of water and I know it would've been a good few minutes before someone did something. It's human nature, face down diver fully kitted up... people assume it's alright, few assume the worst.
Like I said, nothing happened, it was a non-event. But it really scared me and after that I ran my loop on pure oxygen anywhere near the surface, both manual and eccr.
Other than that, my worst oc stupid moment was a solo cave dive. Didnt bother clipping my stages to the line on the way in as there was nowhere convenient at the drop point. Doing so would've pulled the line in an awkward spot so I just ditched them on a nice shelf of rock.
Had a good dive, turned and began the long swim out. And had a triple light failure. Murphy smiled on me that day, as my last backup was flickering and dying I saw something green on the floor of the cave... a dropped SL4. God knows how long it had been there, picked it up as my backup sputtered out. I felt for the switch, flicked it on and it gave out the weakest and most wonderful faint brown glow. It was enough to find the stage bottles, I had nowhere near enough backgas to exit without them, and got me close enough to the entrance I could exit by the ambient light.
This was in France. I dropped my kit, took off my suit and walked into the next village without saying a word to anyone. I bought the best bottle of wine I could afford, walked back to the cave and sat by the river and drank it. Nothing has ever tasted better.
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