Every diver seems enjoy drifting during wall dives.
I cant really calculate how many wall dives i have done in my logs and i enjoyed it until I witness an incident. It happened somewhere in Indonesia (not going to say which dive spot as this case is just really minor incident but it happens, still a good spot anyway).
It was a wall dive spot. There's 6 divers (all of us were leisure divers and some of us are dive masters) led by a local DM. The current was extremely strong that day and seriously we were hardly see any marine life beside drifting left and right. The only thing we could do was trying to buoyant ourselves at certain depth. Due to the bad condition, we were asked to ascend. A sudden down current hit on some of the divers who left behind. We heard the "beep" sound from the dive comps. We just ignore as what we managed to do was helping our own for safety stop. During the safety stop, we were actually found out one of us was missing, we didn't really care by the time as he was an experienced dive master, shouldn't a problem for him.
We waited in the dive boat for more than 20 mins (including bottom time, more than 80mins) and there's no sign of him, the feeling of fear start striking us. We keep circling around the spot checking for bubbles until more than an hour and half surface time. At last we found him floating somewhere about 1km away, sadly with no pulse.
The local DM checked his dive comp and showed the max depth with 100 over metres underwater. Seems that, this incident was not the first experience for him as we could see his action by checking the dive comp calmly with no hesitation after the body was pulled on the boat.
This incident never stop us from diving anyway, but we do learned a lesson, never take things for granted especially for those who experience drift diving, take good care and good luck.
I cant really calculate how many wall dives i have done in my logs and i enjoyed it until I witness an incident. It happened somewhere in Indonesia (not going to say which dive spot as this case is just really minor incident but it happens, still a good spot anyway).
It was a wall dive spot. There's 6 divers (all of us were leisure divers and some of us are dive masters) led by a local DM. The current was extremely strong that day and seriously we were hardly see any marine life beside drifting left and right. The only thing we could do was trying to buoyant ourselves at certain depth. Due to the bad condition, we were asked to ascend. A sudden down current hit on some of the divers who left behind. We heard the "beep" sound from the dive comps. We just ignore as what we managed to do was helping our own for safety stop. During the safety stop, we were actually found out one of us was missing, we didn't really care by the time as he was an experienced dive master, shouldn't a problem for him.
We waited in the dive boat for more than 20 mins (including bottom time, more than 80mins) and there's no sign of him, the feeling of fear start striking us. We keep circling around the spot checking for bubbles until more than an hour and half surface time. At last we found him floating somewhere about 1km away, sadly with no pulse.
The local DM checked his dive comp and showed the max depth with 100 over metres underwater. Seems that, this incident was not the first experience for him as we could see his action by checking the dive comp calmly with no hesitation after the body was pulled on the boat.
This incident never stop us from diving anyway, but we do learned a lesson, never take things for granted especially for those who experience drift diving, take good care and good luck.