Bahamas Close Call Video

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Originally Posted by Cave Diver
To answer that question, look at this: 8 seconds into the video the computer shows a depth of 71' and 24 minutes no stop time. The rest of the dive goes like this:

Time...Depth...No Stop Time
0:08.......71........24........2370 psi
1:19.......111.......5........ 2045 psi
1:41.......113.......5.........2145 psi
1:52.......128.......0
2:34.......141.......4........16?? psi
2:54.......144.......5........1640 psi

Interesting that there is more no stop time at 144' than there was at 128'. I think this was either multiple dives spliced together, or a bounce dive was done and the shots were put together out of sequence. PSI at 111' seems to support this.

I believe that your computer tracks no stop time until you go into deco, and then it switches to show the total time to surface (deco obligation) in the main time display. That's why the time is increasing at video time 2:34 and 2:54. There are also smaller icons showing the next stop depth and time, just above the main time (but hard to see).

I admire you for helping out in this situation- I don't know if I could have done the same, unless I had really seen signs of distress in the other divers. For me a no deco dive means a hard bottom at 120 fsw, period (unless maybe for a dire emergency). Especially in a single tank, air, and no pre-planning.
 
Wow Ahpoolman. You saved two lives without a doubt. This video gave me chills as well. As others have asked did you speak to them later on?
 
Wow, I just saw this vid. Thanks for posting it, That is very very chilling!! I am also wondering if you spoke to them on the surface and what they had to say.
 
Wow, I just saw this vid. Thanks for posting it, That is very very chilling!! I am also wondering if you spoke to them on the surface and what they had to say.

Here is the response given earlier in the thread by the poster who actually shot the video:

The surface conversation was as professional as I could be on the boat. I did read them the riot act a little when we first surfaced. At that point when they were safe of course, to be honest I was more worried about myself then them, once they were safe. We had another dive an hour later and I decompressed properly on that dive. On the boat I didn't want to make them really uncomfortable so the only people I talked to about it was the boat crew and my wife and brother. To add even more scare to it was, my wifes Dad was in the hospital with an illness and we got a phone call from the hospital and he had coded that night and we flew out the next day at noon. Getting on the plane was scary for me 14 hours later. I did call DAN that night (Everyone should have that insurance by the way) and told them my deco obligation and the seriousness of the situation of why I needed to go early and they gave me a hesitant OK to go the next day.. Aaron Hagen Gilbert AZ
 
Thx Cave I don't know how I missed that. I guess he did'nt get to really have a conversation with them. Like if they realized how close they were to death and whatnot. Wow, really how crazy was that... I wonder if they even said thanks??
I think it should be difficult for the majority of the people out there to not do the same (at least I would hope)... I think anyone who says they would'nt have helped them are pretty sick people and are a lot of the cause for our disfunctional world we live in today.. Considering one whould'nt know what caused them to act like that in the moment.
Your a true hero imo!!!
 
Thanks for the comment. I hope everyone can watch this video and get something out of it..Aaron
 
Thanks for the comment. I hope everyone can watch this video and get something out of it..Aaron

Bro - you are the MAN!!!!

Kudo's for major heroism - 2 people are alive today because of you.
 
I'm going to share this video with some Instructors/DMs, so that they can perhaps incorporate it into their instruction. Super save on this one and a great object lesson to any diver!
 
Aaron, well done for saving the two divers, they were lucky that someone was watching out for them.

I think that you were equally lucky, if I read your posts correctly.





So you did a rapid ascent from 140' and bent your computer, then you had an hour's surface interval and went back in the water. Were you looking for a chopper ride yourself? And then you got on a plane just 14 hours afterwards - I appreciate that your father in law's illness was a worry, but your actions coud have put you in hospital as well, hopefully in the same one as your father in law so your wife could visit you both. You're a very lucky man.

*sigh
 
Kudos to you Ahpoolman! You are a true hero!

For those people who question the validity of the video , saying it was staged and what not, I say SO WHAT IF IT WAS!!?

This video is such a powerful teaching tool that whether or not is was staged should be the last concern of anyone watching it. Take it in the spirit in which it was presented and learn from it or at least pass it along so that others can learn from it.
 
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