Back up tank!!!!

[havnmonkey]

I just received my new dive mag, and while I was flipping through the pages I came across one of those diving incident articles:huh: . It was told by a diver who was on a charter and witnessed a diver descending with an extra tank, no 1st/2nd stages or extra BC . The writer said that he knew the diver to be an experienced diver so he figured that it was weird but there was an explanation.

Well, the diver with the extra AL80 had a very leaky Octo. Leaky enough to cause him to run low on air 15 min. into the previous dive and then end the dive. So he decides to take an extra tank and a bottle of spare air with him on his next dive:11: . Nobody stops him...

When his first tank runs low he switches to the Spare Air and then attempts to disconnect his Reg and BC and reattach it to his "backup" AL80! Sitting on the sand at 70 ft. He runs out of Spare Air with his Reg and BC disconnected from both tanks. NO AIR:shakehead

The lucky fellow was saved by a DM who decided to find out why he was sitting on the bottom with all his gear off.


Has anyone else read this? It cannot be true... I hope it's not!

 

[Diver Dennis]

Which magazine?

 

[havnmonkey]

ScubaDiving

 

[aic007]

WOW,

Now that is pretty stupid, good thing he made it out but if not its another story on how diving is killing more an more people and not explaining that the fellow brought it on himself.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Yeah I just read this myself. Sad part is he is probably, if the story is true, still diving and endangering others with his stupidity.

 

[scubadobadoo]

How he managed to get off the boat with the extra tank is the real question. If someone on the boat with me was doing that I would kindly ask them not to because they were just going to end up cutting my dive short when the DM's attention is taken............oh crap............this isn't even worth continuing....lol........i quit!

 

[rawls]

The DM thought he was joking when he went in the water with an extra cylinder with nothing attached. Bad DM...Bad DM...No chew bone for you...

 

[havnmonkey]

I'm still shocked! I... AAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrgggghhhhh... He should be an Astronaut!!!! I'll call NASA and put in a good word.

 

[1_T_Submariner]

Was this under the cartoon section of the magazine...

LM(___)o(___) off LOL LOL

Thinning the gene pool I guess....

 

[Nomad]

IMHO... Fiction to prove a point...