Amazing and impossible. DIVER IN KNOTS

[Groupie59]

I know this is mainly a scuba site but I'm sure many of you must have dived using surface demand. If you have, the one thing you have drilled into you is, your umbilical is your life, hence its name "umbilical".

Many thousands of hours go by around the world every week in the commercial and military diving world without any incidents. So when I saw this clip I was amazed. I have been diving for a living all of my life and I am now 49 and I have never seen anything like it.

I've watched it a few times, and still can't quite figure out how he did it see if you can?

There is some swearing in the clip!

Tony
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[kamfan]

I really can not comment on whether this is real or not, but there were a couple of times early on that you could clearly see that what happened is that the "bight" ( a bend) of the umbilical was put through the strop and could have been pulled through to free it up. Maybe it is my nautical background that allows me to see it so clearly.

[Charlie99]

I think it is all an elaborate setup.

The topology is that a bight of the umbilical was pushed through the lifting stop, taken completely over, behind, and then brought back beneath the block, and only then was the block set on the bottom. Just like one can put an endless loop of cord onto the eye of a boltsnap.

[Deefstes]

The topology is that a bight of the umbilical was pushed through the lifting stop, taken completely over, behind, and then brought back beneath the block..

Alternatively, and more likely, the bight was pushed through the strop and then the diver swam through that loop. I thought it was particularly funny because these guys are talking in South African accents and even throws in the occasional Afrikaans swear word.:D

[SurDo2]

I know who both the diver and the supervisor are. The offshore diving world is VERY small. It's not a setup. There were some serious beers bought over this one.

[Yazrick]

Clip is no longer available :(

[Deefstes]

Clip is no longer available :(
I can still see it. Try YouTube - Diver in a knot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYR0nNX35g)

[Charlie99]

Alternatively, and more likely, the bight was pushed through the strop and then the diver swam through that loop. :DAgreed. And it wouldn't seem very obvious to open up a big loop and crawl through it, and with that guy's luck he would undoubtably go through the loop in the wrong direction, thereby adding to the confusion. :D

[Deefstes]

Agreed. And it wouldn't seem very obvious to open up a big loop and crawl through it, and with that guy's luck he would undoubtably go through the loop in the wrong direction, thereby adding to the confusion. :D

Exactly:D

I would love to know how the umbilical got through the strop in the first place, never mind how the diver then swam through the loop. I mean, I don't exactly see the umbilical accidentally slip through the strop, not only just slip through the strop mind you but slip through it far enough to form a loop big enough for the diver to accidentally swim through.:confused:

Methinks there's more than meets the eye...

[Yazrick]

WOW....
I don;t know if I would have stayed that calm.

Did you notice the Afrikaans accent?

[Deefstes]

Did you notice the Afrikaans accent?

Yeah, it cracks me up every time I look at it. I love that bit @0:39
"Bru this is not funny. This is like a bit of an emergency, we're in diep kak here, just start cutting that thing away so we can get you out."

Seriously, I'd love to know what happened there. Wouldn't be surprised if someone pulled a prank on the poor diver and it turned a little nasty. SurDo2, c'mon, we're all ears, spill it.;)

[do it easy]

That's a tough situation- the knot itself reminds me of one of those bar games with the loops and the rings.

I'm not sure if this should be filed under a bad day diving or a bad day at the office. At least everyone walked away.

Does anyone know how deep the dive was?

[SurDo2]

The diver had a bunch of a$$h0le5 in his umbilical(twists) and a bight from one of them went through the cable and he swam through it then around the block a few times. When doing mid water work if your not paying attention it's not too hard to get twisted up, (I've never done myself, knock on wood). I'm pretty sure the dive profile was USN 60/120. That video cracks me up..."Not the umbilical, the cable, what the hell are you doing?".

[Groupie59]

That is why I posted it. It is astonishing footage. You can say "Oh he poked the bight through, then swam through a loop." But HOW? If you have any sense of direction or underwater care you couldn't, wouldn't.

I love the supervisor's comments. When he first says "We'll have to cut it" and the diver puts the hack saw on his umbilical, "Not your f&$@ing umbilical!"

Also he says at one stage, "We're gonna have to have some serious Umbilical management talks here man."

Tony

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