The Diving Disaster at the Andrea Doria | Scary Fascinating

[@christopherwood2796]

5:20...the air we breathe at the surface doesn't become toxic at depth. Oxygen itself does, but it's the enriched air (higher oxygen levels) that become toxic. So Nitrox will. Trimix isn't to prevent oxygen toxicity, it's to keep Nitrogen levels down and keep you from getting narced at depth.

[@scaryfascinating]

huh wow great info. Going to pin this so others know!

[@christopherwood2796]

@@scaryfascinating ...I could be wrong about the oxygen but I know for a fact Trimix helps with nitrogen narcosis. I do know that before tech diving became a thing divers were diving regular air at depths below 200 feet. I'm not a tech diver, just recreational

[@jameslawson1952]

@@christopherwood2796 Technically correct that trimix is to reduce the nitrogen intoxication but regular air is fatally oxygen toxic past 80m (260ft). Oxygen levels can be as low as 4% in saturation diving trimix.

[@christopherwood2796]

@@jameslawson1952 ...I wasn't sure. I know divers have used regular air down to like 210-220 ft but I'm not knowledgeable past that. I also would assume they take tanks to stage as the deeper you go the quicker you go thru your air. I know about rebreathers but not sure if there is a depth limit on those or not

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@christopherwood2796 From what I can gather (not an expert either) The depth limits on rebreathers relates to the mix you charge in the "DIL" (plain gas supply) and how frequently you recharge the Oxygen content, since they DO allow that, from descriptions given in interviews with Edd Sorenson on DIVE TALK (channel on YT that I highly recommend)... Edd did a demonstration with Gus and Woody, where they got into a cave and he sat there, and showed some of the tolerance that can be taken with a rebreather without adding oxygen, so the viewers could watch his system's internal air-bladder at work while he just fought current and went through time... and then they had a talk about it afterward, regarding things like the growing difficulty in breathing and how far he could take it... They talked on that episode quite a lot about the technical aspects of rebreathers and oxygen (and trimix) at depth... ;o)

[@roadboat9216]

Please all do keep in mind that as this video properly pointed out. The is NOT recreational diving. So do not judge diving in general be this incident. This is TECH diving. It come with a completely different set of risks and a lot more of them. I am a dive instructor and dive master with thousands of dives and I have no desire to do this kind of diving. These dives are very advanced and technical. The new equipment and training make it much safer than it use to be. But still has a LOT of risk.

[@ppo2424]

It IS recreational diving, just a type of recreational diving, your only other choice is commercial diving and it is not that.

[@cavediver2579]

A “lot” of risk no, additional risk yes. I’m also a dive and technical diving instructor with thousands of dives many of them advanced technical cave dives, with proper training it’s every bit as safe, probably more so than a 60’ follow me reef dive.

[@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp]

Poor chap. You couldn’t pay me enough to go that deep and I would be far too scared of being trapped in a wreck to ever enter one.

[@fastinradfordable]

That. Is what she said

[@wilfredwayne7139]

Untill we can breathe for hours on on one tank and actually handle the depths I'll take a pass.

[@nickadkins5679]

@@wilfredwayne7139 We can though. A rebreather allows a diver to recycle their gas supply, so one tank can last hours. Look into it, it's exactly what you want.

[@darkzak47]

It’s amazing. It’s as if having a really good story somehow validates our existence despite the bodies littering the peak of Everest, there’s no lack of people still going there.

[@michelledavis5562]

U did an amazing job on that story! I love how u talk about the people in ur stories, u seem to not lose sight of the fact that they ARE REAL PEOPLE, and have real people who care about them! Shows great character! That's why I always check out ur videos!

[@gando_411]

I get that these are really cool things to explore, but does anyone else think it's super creepy being down in the ocean that far in the pitch black?

[@thatguywhocleansaquariums4839]

These people don’t have phobias of the deep or the dark. Their only fear is staying alive. And how that fear stays contained to that is beyond me. Because I’m afraid of the dark (disorientation, getting lost, current pushing you away from where you thought you were) but I’m also afraid of what’s in it (anything that eats you). Again, how they can compartmentalize their fear of death to be able to enjoy diving to this wreckage is beyond me.

[@alabamadeep4471]

No. As long as you are well trained, have good equipment, and plan ahead. There is no fear to have

[@scaryfascinating]

Totally agree

[@SuzzyB52]

From one old diver to another, rest in peace dear Sir.

[@jimmythetulip4313]

Well explained.. The diving mixture explanation is very useful to the non-divers.

[@americanazheck]

Crewed on both John jacks. Zero was something else. Lost a few friends over the years. Had an opportunity to dive the Doria, but never made it there. I definitely wasn't ready for that wreck and wasn't scared to admit it.

[@lionness62-82]

It was really easy to keep up with your story unlike some others I've came across. Good job and RIP t TP

[@jaredweiman2987]

Know a lot of guys who do caves and ship wrecks, looking to get into it myself within the next year or two. Anybody will tell you that deep wreck diving is a BEAST. Most of the caves in the U.S. and Mexico aren't exceptionally deep (Eagle's Nest is an exception I can think of) so they don't require this level of deco planning. Switching gas mixtures in the water, long descents, hours of deco, etc add a tremendous amount of risk. Every possible avenue of failure or gear related issues that could come up needs to be addressed and a contingency plan in place. Very serious business.

[@dannythompson1948]

Why? What's the point? It's darwinism at it's worst. So much wasted potential.

[@Megatron-sl5us]

46 people died when the ship sank. 22 people died scuba diving at the wreck site.

[@stacymirba1433]

I have no idea how people have the courage to even attempt to do this. The idea of going to the bottom of a body of water that is pitch black is terrifying. The idea of there being a wreck there makes it even worse for some reason.

[@bigal8986]

I did this in the mid 90's for Key West Diver to do the hookup on the USS Curb at almost 200' and the USS Wilkes Barre in 320'. I've seen Jesus, he does have blue eyes, but I've also seen the boogie man

[@p.meyerhiggins3157]

Interesting. Have you heard of the Fosse Dionne? It is a spring in France with a submerged cave below its surface, and several divers have lost their lives in their attempts to track the source of the water; I'm not sure what happened, but perhaps it'd make an interesting subject for your channel.

[@darlenefraser3022]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJS6gpahpcd_mac. Fosse Dionne. Not the best quality but not horrible either.

[@SatanRomps]

Could the source not be the soil around the cave itself? 🤔 Often times dry underground caves will become submerged after rains. I don't see why this couldn't be the same. Perhaps at a certain depth the soil changes to something that doesn't drain the water so the water basically just sits in the hole without draining.

[@p.meyerhiggins3157]

@@SatanRomps It has (apparently) been extensively studied, and dye tracing surveys revealed that it is partially supplied by the river Laigne (nearest surface point is 27 miles from the spring), but the spring flows an average of 311litres/second (and can reach much higher rates), and apparently the identified sources (inc. the river) don't yet account for so much water.

[@iDiveNewEngland]

Rest In Peace, Tom Pritchard.

[@1SeanBond]

A excellent job on the story telling & video editing! Luv&Peace to family and friends of the Diver.

[@Darkcydesreign]

Great job great channel great content thank you for all the hard work

[@houseofsolomon2440]

Great actual footage 👌

[@englishcanuck4930]

Thank you very much for the upload. Love from 🇬🇧

[@Krystalmyth]

Why don't divers carry a device that makes a high pitch sound/ping when in an emergency?

[@odoacredacalcutta5085]

wouldn't be very useful as in the water it's really hard to identify the source of a sound. it seems to come from every direction

[@CJCon885]

Some divers do use an air alert. Sounds like a duck under water.

[@Krystalmyth]

@@odoacredacalcutta5085 Yeah but itd be better than the silence of a void. I think about that one cave diver who discovered a small chamber and awaited for rescue, only for the search to be called off. He waited there for almost a week and starved to death... I kind of feel some kind of alert would at least let people know he's out there within reach...

[@stevenklingler9376]

A 250 foot, four minute decent into the dark ocean with sharks!!!!!!!! Are you out of your fucking mind!!!! 😃

[@Jane-oz7pp]

I mean, sharks are actually pretty chill and are far less likely to bite if you aren't around the surface making noise.

[@Phoxinsocks]

Watching this at night and notice video footage from someone I dive with regularly was pretty amusing xD Well narrated!

[@abdullahameen772]

I definitely stumbled upon your video by accident,I mostly watch true crime videos or reptiles so diving isn't a topic I would normally watch. I'm guessing because of the investigation type style of your video it was in my recommendation to watch list. Non the less I veryuch enjoyed so I subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos thanks

[@Tonytony019]

So sad. RIP Tom

[@michaelseibold9977]

I was 7 when she sank and still remember watching it on the news. Back then you didn't have 24hr news but there were bulletins.

[@scaryfascinating]

Ahhh I see

[@snowmiaow]

They didn't check to make sure everybody was there before returning to the surface.

[@WOODY11780]

Rest in Peace Forever Tom

[@arcraider937]

We used to go dive a 200' dfw sink hole at night . Top of the mound was 140 ' . We would race to the top just to get narced. Deepest dive there for me was 180 on air . At those depths getting narced is like a punch in the face , it comes on fast and hard .

[@Vandroy58]

Salutations and respect to all those brave men/women who have perished while attempting to go beyond limits of the average human. Tech and Cave diving is for the really wild and brave and although death is an undesired event, I am sure these people died happy doing what they loved.

[@GodLovesYou1624]

We tell ourselves that for comfort. But I’m sure most of us, upon an early death/perceived early death, think “man this sucks a lot of ass.”

[@j.griffin]

@@GodLovesYou1624 I’d think that panic is more likely to be felt than happiness at that moment… unless they narced out. If that was the case, then they literally might not even have known WHAT they were doing… Trimix reduces the risk but it doesn’t eliminate it.

[@judowrestlerka]

Each time I've done a technical, tri-mix/nirrox dive I get sick afterward and vomit everywhere.

[@mathoffman5888]

How do you only have 12,000 subscribers???

[@PRR5406]

Have Dr. Pritchard's remains been located or recovered?

[@scaryfascinating]

They have not. To my knowledge

[@PatrickFletcher]

I dove that wreck from the Wahoo in 2003 ... still have a couple of plates ;-)

[@scaryfascinating]

That is awesome! Glad to hear it

[@dimebagdave77]

🔥THNX!🔥 so very interesting

[@scottmoseley5122]

I am thinking some sort location device would come in handy for these divers and spelunkers . RIP

[@Jane-oz7pp]

Unfortunately positioning systems don't work underground, and I'm assuming once they're submerged deep enough they run into accuracy problems. You get issues with GPS on a cloudy day, let alone dozens, even hundreds of metres underground or underwater.

[@bobarlow354]

Rest In Peace Tom

[@J.A568]

If there was a chance he could have been alive, why was the right decision to leave instead of send someone down to find him? Surely the Coast Guard had people trained to go down also. I don't understand.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

Basically for the same reason you don't dive in to help a drowning person. Two deaths is not better than one.

[@medea27]

One of the things that isn't very obvious to those of us who aren't divers is how challenging & _deadly serious_ technical diving is. We hear about recreational divers diving straight back in to help a struggling friend, but that's only in relatively shallow dives using basic gear - the risks are lower. There is an _enormous_ amount of planning that goes into diving as deep as the Andrea Doria because an error in your gas mixture or decompression times has fatal consequences... it's more akin to cave diving than open water. We're talking _hours_ of calculating, planning, prepping, checking, re-checking, triple-checking & checking _yet again_ before they get in the water.... so it would be impossible for anyone - even properly trained & equipped Coast Guard - to get to the site, prep their gear & dive plan, and get down to the bottom to search for Tom before his gas ran out. It's just too big a risk sadly.

[@hurleycapetown8420]

I have done hundreds of dives but i would never do a deep wreck dive or a cave dive for any reason,i admire the people with enough courage to do them but if you paid me $1 million i would not dive into this wreck i would honestly freeze with panic and die.

[@ericastapleton7042]

Diving seems a bit too risky for my liking. Too much can go wrong. Thank you for the true story. RIP Prichard ☆

[@RP-dy5mu]

Just don't dive alone, dive with a friend. And I mean a close friend, not some dude you met somewhere. And don't stray too far from one another. Plus these are extreme dives. You'll be fine if you do normal open water dives because you back each other up with your friend.

[@kathyollis7037]

You said exactly what I've always been thinking, I do believe it can be safe but, there's been experienced divers that seemed to do all the things right & death still happened so I think I'm safer on land but just to clarify, I know death can come anytime in any form but Im definitely not going to speed it up in any way

[@ericastapleton7042]

Call me a wussy! Apart from all that can go wrong, there's also sharks in the water lol . A buddy can't help you there ☆

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

The real hazard with scuba is that there are so many details that you absolutely have to take into account, especially when prep'ing your gear for a dive... and even the most seasoned experts can get complacent... Every dive has to be planned, and then you always ALWAYS dive your plan. When people get into trouble, it's most often because they either neglected a minor issue (another cardinal sin in diving) or they went "off book" with the dive plan. Many simply didn't go with a dive plan to begin with, thinking "It's just a little recreational dive." AND then they've over-extended their air supply, gone too deep, lost track of time, or something else crucial... The top of the ranks that I've talked to consistently tell me "No single thing ever kills a diver." That's to say that one little issue generally doesn't lead to a crisis... It's that while you're dealing with the first issue, something else comes up, and then something new... and if you let it get the better of you and panic, your mind simply fails to function. You CAN'T think in a panic... and that's what eventually gets divers killed... Sharks 999 out of 1000 times couldn't possibly care any less what you're doing. Don't go flailing about to get away, because you'll sound and look like prey to them, and that triggers a predatory response... BUT most of the time, they're not interested to begin with so there's nothing particularly to be afraid of... I've done quite a lot of swimming and snorkeling and even some scuba in the wide-open sea... I've seen many sharks, from little raggie's to bulls and a few whites... They're generally looking for what they USUALLY find for food, not humans. They mostly don't even know what to make of us... ;o)

[@ericastapleton7042]

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Thank you for your wise advice. Sounds like you know what you're talking about. I hope you have many safe dives in the future ☆

[@johnsepulveda443]

And let's remember people still died on that ship so their looting a gravesite in my opinion

[@moemanncann895]

Exactly

[@jeepfvr]

Why don't they always dive in pairs?

[@MeredithMacArthur]

Very good job with the actual video and photos, well written story, too. Although (and I'm not trying to be mean) have you thought of working on your reading-out-loud skills? I had trouble understanding some words and watched with the closed captions on. And your voice is so monotone, it could put me to sleep, and not in a good way.

[@scaryfascinating]

Always trying to improve so I will work on that. I've heard both good and bad on my monotone voice but I'll try to put more in next time haha. Thanks for the comment though!

[@Elizzaabethhh]

They could have ABSOLUTELY retrieved him if he was on a rebreather... so sad

[@tumslucks9781]

Being trapped in the rusty innards of a collapsing ship is one of the worst ways to die. Do deep sea divers have a death wish?

[@bustarhymes1693]

RIP Tom.

[@rynoX88]

At least Payton Pritchard is thriving pretty good.

[@Anonymous-xd7bt]

If it is truly him getting trapped in the wreck, he could have potentially been saved if he adhered to the buddy system…

[@hawaiianprestigecars8493]

you cant see dirt down there

[@hrush437]

How about sharks? Aren’t they at risk?

[@ColinMcluckie]

Wait till you dive the hms dasher In Scotland 555feet

[@BlackFlamingo314]

They seriously just ditched him

[@Tbone272]

I disagree with not going back down

[@ImmortalTreknique]

😁👍👊💪🍻

[@caninecurry5823]

Don't seem worth it. But they doing what they enjoy and only really hurt those that love and care for them 🤷‍♂️.. so, go for it.

[@kathyollis7037]

You said it, they're doing what they love but it hurts the ones that love them that's left behind wondering why, that can actually torment someone until they realize that' they they died doing what they love

[@dagmargrandt7850]

But with a rebreather.. he still could have been alive ...or not ?

[@mrcrazyattire723]

Fix that audio echo.

[@scaryfascinating]

Yessir!

[@Slop_Dogg]

Creepy 🥲🌶

[@genekelly8467]

I don't get it..people risk their lives to get some old china? This is uncomfortable, dangerous and boring (you have to spend an hour decompressing).

[@Jane-oz7pp]

History my man, people like to study it. For the divers the dive itself is often the drawing factor and the rest is just funding and permission.

[@bigzach7778]

Kills 18 divers.. why try your luck

[@Jane-oz7pp]

Imagine the clout if you survive

[@iPolitely]

Why copy another KZbinrs name who does these same kind of videos

[@scaryfascinating]

Wait there's another 'Scary Fascinating' ?!? When I search for that only I pop up. Maybe I'm mistaken

[@iPolitely]

@@scaryfascinating my fault, there isn’t, the one I was thinking of is “Scary Interesting”

[@arieswar4770]

All that for 15 mins!!!!

[@v.dargain1678]

. . . and a bag of broken dishes . Not worth it to me . I am not the daredevil these people are .

[@jomon723]

Great Buddy Work ....Not!

[@rexmanley7813]

most tech divers do not use the buddy system.

[@tonfleuren3536]

@@rexmanley7813 Most that end up on this channel don't, there is a significant selection bias here! While I'm not a cave or tech diver, I dive with a lot of people who are, and most don't just bring a buddy, they bring two, as they prefer to dive in 3-diver teams.

[@Joesabbagh27]

Check out the Scary Interesting channel. It's better and this dude ripped off the name and format.

[@johnsepulveda443]

Is this a story about something bad that happened or a damn lesson on different mixtures for diving very little is said about what happened and too much about deep dives

[@13guns87]

Tragic but at least he died doing something he loved. It's like riding a motorbike, you know the dangers and you accept death is a possible outcome. It will happen, divers die all the time. Just like on a motorbike. To say divers are not thrill seekers isn't accurate. I ride the bike, I get a Rush, divers will be no different. In this case the thrill is the wreckage. Cave divers it's obviously the cave, fish divers it's sharks, marine divers it's the wildlife. All sections of diving inc a thrill unless it's for work. Welding ECT.

[@captaintruth3219]

They should have sent Joe Biden down to help him.

[@Gamer_nut29]

@dive talk

[@EmperorNerox]

Dude just reads about the story off Wikipedia or some other site. The thing that makes that boring is that he's not adding anything to the story that makes it interesting to himself and giving it to us to think about. Just reading what someone else wrote about it in a pedantic way

[@Glory_inthe_3rd77]

I was going to watch this until I heard all the stretched out s pronunciations LOL ssssssssssssst.. I think you're of course trying to you know add some creepiness to it but those s's are just too much for me.

[@retiredlogic4100]

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[@csmic-phantm8095]

Damm yo, both tedious & precarious, nevertheless a very dreadfully a disheartening fate... ☯️🙏🏻

[@sn3akydna314]

Another channel just put this out man are you copying other KZbinrs bro

[@NextToToddliness]

I wonder how much tax dollars were spent, just so this guy could get lost doing a very expensive, privileged hobby?

[@walterbrownstone8017]

Why don't you fix your audio? Am I subbed? Not anymore.

[@scaryfascinating]

Thanks for your comment Walter. Sad to see you go. Will work on the audio though!

[@prophetascending9021]

So, they abandoned him?