Holy S...!!

[coach_izzy]

Holy shhhhoogah honey iced tea! The video and analysis of this accident gave me nightmares! A lot of questions unanswered, but helpful to watch. It is from the year 2000, but I believe the lessons apply just the same today as they did then.

This Video posted in YouTube can be found here.

 

[Jimmer]

Wow, I wish I knew more about his mental state and training level, and why he chose to go that deep. One thing seems sure, he wasn't ready for that dive on that day.

 

[johnnyseko]

Not much analysis to go on....

I'm sure this board will pick it apart.

Sounded like his reg was gurgling water about halfway down to me. Why he dropped down like that and didnt turn around

They said he was entangled in the sand? What does that mean? In a panic at the bottom?

 

[Rick Inman]

"Sport?... Sport?...... Not worth it."

Call me a cynic (my wife does), but that looked written to me.

 

[johnnyseko]

"Sport?... Sport?...... Not worth it."

Call me a cynic (my wife does), but that looked written to me.

Totally done for drama...but it was a real accident, right?

from the site:
"Video taped by Yuri Lipski who killed in a diving accident in the "Blue Hole", Dahab, Egypt at 28.4.2000.
The video shows rare footage taken by Yuri's head camera, analyzed by specialists.
Since 1968, more than 100 divers lost their lives at this mysterious place."

 

[coach_izzy]

Totally done for drama...but it was a real accident, right?

from the site:
"Video taped by Yuri Lipski who killed in a diving accident in the "Blue Hole", Dahab, Egypt at 28.4.2000.
The video shows rare footage taken by Yuri's head camera, analyzed by specialists.
Since 1968, more than 100 divers lost their lives at this mysterious place."

The Big Guy's comments perhaps... but that video alone has all the drama it can carry without any salt or spice... It looks like he lost control of his buoyancy, and those confusing calls for help (or were they?) man, that is what gave me the nightmares!

 

[coach_izzy]

Wow, I wish I knew more about his mental state and training level, and why he chose to go that deep. One thing seems sure, he wasn't ready for that dive on that day.

According to the video, the gentleman involved was an instructor, and he seemed to be overweighted... or am I missing something?

 

[*Floater*]

Maybe he was trying to video tape himself breaking his depth record (hence showing the computer to the camera when he should have been worrying about getting back up), but got so narced that he lost it at the bottom. Just a guess...

 

[wreckchick]

By the time he hit the bottom, I'd guess he was too narc'd to think straight and I wouldn't discount the 'entanglement' as some sort of confused attempt to GET OUT OF HERE!!!

Did anyone hear him inflate anything? I wonder if it wasn't an inflator failure which would explain the acceleration on descent.

Rachel

 

[Jimmer]

According to the video, the gentleman involved was an instructor, and he seemed to be overweighted... or am I missing something?

I understand he was an instructor, but the other guys in the water were diving what appeared to be single AL80's, one was referred to as his buddy, and yet he goes to 91 metres? That's the part I'm missing, was that planned, was that a drop like a stone situation? If he was heavily overweighted, and an instructor, where was his mental state that let him attempt a dive like that, an instructor should be able to feel that he was that drastically overweighted. Something wasn't right with him on that dive that day. An instructor would have known to ditch weights etc. I just don't get why he let himself get into that situation.