Solo, amateur salvage diver rescued - Cape St. Claire, Maryland

[luscioman]

Glad this turned out well for him. Many AI computers have alarms set for low pressure and this is a time where it would be useful.

 

[DandyDon]

He swam up and breached the surface to make a distress call, but was dragged down by his cumbersome scuba equipment.

Mikulski repeated the process a second time and was able to ditch his gear, except for his weight belt. He surfaced a third time, sunk back down, tried to lose the weight belt and blacked out.

I think his biggest obstacle in self rescue was that he failed to ditch his weights when he couldn't stay buoyant the first time he surfaced.

 

[Bierstadt]

He must have been heavily overweighted to not be able to stay on the surface after a dive planned to 5 feet and with an empty tank. I'd like to say he should of put a breathful into his bcd, but boy that must have been a lot of weight to fight.