PADI Wreck Specialty

[DiverBuoy]

Line use is an advanced technique. Only a trained diver who understands and has experience should use it. Don't penetrate a wreck beyond the edge of light and access to the surface WITHOUT a reel.

Click here for my story - I nearly died from a reel on a wreck, so I can relate to the dilemma.

 

[MikeFerrara]

Good points doc.

I agree that the recreational wreck classes like the PADI class may best serve the student by showing them some good reasons to stay out. I couldn't prove if but I'll bet as many or more divers have been lost in some of the Great Lakes wrecks than in caves. Especially wrecks like the Milwaukee and Wisconsin that are at depths accessible to recreational divers. They may look big and easy to penetrate but looks can be deceiving. Cave training is good and many skills are common to both environments but wrecks are not the same as caves and being qualified in one doesn not completely prepare you for the other.

 

[DiverBuoy]

I had been reading about the Yukon being preparred and sunk for divers. Then after a started scuba I kept telling everyone I wanted to learn to wreck dive within just a month of talking about it - this was reported:

(12/30) First HMS Yukon Diving Death Occurs
A female tourist from Germany died yesterday while scuba diving at the recently submerged Canadian warship HMS Yukon off Mission Beach. At the beginning of the planned dive, she became separated from two relatives that were diving with her. Her body was found 5 hours later by lifeguards near the artificial diving reef. The cause of the accident is not known.

Later I believe they discovered she suffered from coronary trouble.