Ministryofgiraffes
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So, i’m in the Red Sea today and after my morning dive the guys on the dock remove my tank from my BCD whilst it’s still on my back and I then take my BCD off and lay it onto the back of the little golf buggy/wagon whilst I pick up my shades. When I go back over to my BCD and go to pick it up I get a small sustained electric shock from it into my fingertips ( I would say as strong as licking a big domestic battery) but fingers not tongues.....immediately I think:
A) Crap, is this pain a signal of being bent?
B) Crap, is this pain a signal of an embolism?
C) Crap, is the BCD touching something on the buggy that is carrying a charge and I’m getting electrocuted?
I’m diving with a dude who happens to be a senior instructor and he furrows his brow, goes to pick up my BCD and comments ‘HOLY CRAP’ that is charged...’I have never seen that!’ We gage a sec and the charge reduces/disappears over a couple of mins and we turn off the buggy etc. Move the BCD and there is nothing but wood touching it, no metal at all... the only thing I had in it with charge was my dive flashlight which was functioning perfectly and touching no metal on the BCD...
Any ideas? No one at the dive shop had seen this before and I don’t think they would have believed me if we both didn’t feel it....
A) Crap, is this pain a signal of being bent?
B) Crap, is this pain a signal of an embolism?
C) Crap, is the BCD touching something on the buggy that is carrying a charge and I’m getting electrocuted?
I’m diving with a dude who happens to be a senior instructor and he furrows his brow, goes to pick up my BCD and comments ‘HOLY CRAP’ that is charged...’I have never seen that!’ We gage a sec and the charge reduces/disappears over a couple of mins and we turn off the buggy etc. Move the BCD and there is nothing but wood touching it, no metal at all... the only thing I had in it with charge was my dive flashlight which was functioning perfectly and touching no metal on the BCD...
Any ideas? No one at the dive shop had seen this before and I don’t think they would have believed me if we both didn’t feel it....