lightning strike

[alewar]

Now that we know you're ok, tell us what kind of superpower did you acquire

 

[TONY CHANEY]

This happened to us a month after this posting, further supporting DJTimmy's claim to not dive evenings. The funny thing is, he dove with us that morning!

[video=youtube;PXW0Y1IDbxo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXW0Y1IDbxo&list=UUfOp-jFb0p7lyYk7hwCajRg[/video]

Believe it or not that video was truly great and some very good shots of the lighting. I am glad that others faired much better than I did. I learned a lot that day and still feel the hairs on the back of my neck rise up durning a good storm.

---------- Post added October 24th, 2014 at 12:49 AM ----------

Now that we know you're ok, tell us what kind of superpower did you acquire

Well I have a profound respect for the weather unlike before. I have always dived very safe but never had something like this happen. It really shook me up and it still does today. Three months later I have three marks, one on my knee and one on each foot that are very, very dark and sometimes bleed. These marks are the same place that I was slammed to the concret and bleed for some time. They tend to never heal. From what I gathered, it might be where the lighting might have exited my body. I have no superpower but I can assure you that MrChen and I have an feeling that we would never want to go through that again. Scary as hell!

 

[MrChen]

In our case, we were up in Jupiter and while surfacing a storm was coming, so we hauled butt down to West Palm Beach, only to get caught in that an hour later. Florida weather! They were 2 completely different storms and every day is a chance of rain and thunderstorms.