ndavy
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I was on that night dive. It was a wild series of events. The man who had to go to the hospital with chest pains wound up not being anything serious, I don't know exactly what it was but it wasn't DCS or a lung over expansion injury.
The other two who were on oxygen were precautionary because they made a rapid ascent. I am fairly certain that one of the two that made a rapid ascent forgot his weightbelt (there is about a 15% chance that I could be wrong about him forgetting his weightbelt, since he never confessed to forgetting it but when I asked him he didn't remember putting it on or taking it off, and I asked him about it about 2 minutes after we got back on the boat) because he was very seasick before entering the water. The seas were fairly choppy I had a little motion sickness but not too bad. He must have pulled himself down line and then when he was swimming around the wreck and came up to around 50 feet he couldn't stop his ascent. His buddy also was rather inexperienced and she just followed him up for some reason.
When the diver complaining of chest pain came up the boat captain did attempt to radio the authorities but was getting no response from anyone except the other dive boat on the site until it was relayed by someone who fortunately happened to be monitoring the channel.
One group of divers even had to be left on hanging onto the bouy until the other dive boat on site could pick them up since they were still while we needed to run the man with chest pains in to meet the ambulance. Fortunately everything turned out alright and no one was seriously injured although I know a couple of the divers on the boat reevaulated their desire to dive after having three people on oxygen on the same boat.
The other two who were on oxygen were precautionary because they made a rapid ascent. I am fairly certain that one of the two that made a rapid ascent forgot his weightbelt (there is about a 15% chance that I could be wrong about him forgetting his weightbelt, since he never confessed to forgetting it but when I asked him he didn't remember putting it on or taking it off, and I asked him about it about 2 minutes after we got back on the boat) because he was very seasick before entering the water. The seas were fairly choppy I had a little motion sickness but not too bad. He must have pulled himself down line and then when he was swimming around the wreck and came up to around 50 feet he couldn't stop his ascent. His buddy also was rather inexperienced and she just followed him up for some reason.
When the diver complaining of chest pain came up the boat captain did attempt to radio the authorities but was getting no response from anyone except the other dive boat on the site until it was relayed by someone who fortunately happened to be monitoring the channel.
One group of divers even had to be left on hanging onto the bouy until the other dive boat on site could pick them up since they were still while we needed to run the man with chest pains in to meet the ambulance. Fortunately everything turned out alright and no one was seriously injured although I know a couple of the divers on the boat reevaulated their desire to dive after having three people on oxygen on the same boat.