SapphireMind
Contributor
I am not said experienced diver! I was going on a boat dive to try and do my deep diving cert dives. I hadn't slept well and didn't eat enough for breakfast, and on my first dive, it was like I had never dived before. My buoyancy was terrible and I had to start ascent at 10 min down because I was just a mess. Got back on the boat, started eating and decided to scrap my second dive - I was scared at how absent my brain felt and that I was just not "on" and I figured discretion was the better part of valor.
So that brings us to the near miss. Another diver on the boat, a very experienced one and an instructor, gets in the water for the 2nd dive, has some comments about his regulator not breathing well. Doesn't immediately get out of the water. He surface swims a little and has more issues and gets back on the boat. The captain checks his tank - nearly completely empty! We check his other tank to see if he didn't change tanks - nope, that one is also low, as it would be after a dive. He didn't check his pressure gauge and do test breathing on his reg when he switched tanks.
It was very eye opening, because obviously this was someone who had a lot of experience and knowledge, but missing basic steps could have been life-threatening if he had done an immediate descent!
So that brings us to the near miss. Another diver on the boat, a very experienced one and an instructor, gets in the water for the 2nd dive, has some comments about his regulator not breathing well. Doesn't immediately get out of the water. He surface swims a little and has more issues and gets back on the boat. The captain checks his tank - nearly completely empty! We check his other tank to see if he didn't change tanks - nope, that one is also low, as it would be after a dive. He didn't check his pressure gauge and do test breathing on his reg when he switched tanks.
It was very eye opening, because obviously this was someone who had a lot of experience and knowledge, but missing basic steps could have been life-threatening if he had done an immediate descent!