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The Day I Cheated Death (Scuba Dive Incident at Moose Mountain Quarry, Ontario)
Posted June 2018, • The Day I Cheated DEAT... , Water Temp 41F
Summary:
An uncertified diver posted this event back in June 2018, which occurred at Moose Mountain Quarry, Ontario. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on from the video alone, but the video description and comments by the OP since they are both illuminating and confusing at the same time. The OP is a certified diver now. I’m not sure if the panic was caused by N2/CO2 narcosis, over-breathing the reg, or? I’d be happy to hear some observations and opinions. Original video description and key comments by OP included below.
Video Description from the Original Video Poster:
“I'm an idiot, this was my 2nd ever dive (and) WITHOUT certification, I had been breathing incorrectly in some dumb attempt to conserve on air and panicked at 100ft when I was unable to suck in air from my reg which caused me to shallow hyperventilate, so because I couldn't breathe and my partner was already ascending above me. I made an emergency ascent (not even correctly) to the surface, causing my lungs to expand and throw up basically nitrogen upon surfacing. Later Symptoms included a minor headache, Dizziness, Muscle cramps, Chest pain and Ringing in the ears.
Two weeks after this incident. There was another experienced diver who died at the same location in 60 feet of water as he experienced something similar to me.
Before you get too eager and decide to be a condescending ass hat in the comment section. I have been certified and am currently an advanced diver with a solid number of dives under my belt including deep dives. I understand what happened during this dive, opposed to my definition in video which was again still before I had any training, so not need to attempt to give me some personal explanation of what I should have done or what happened. You weren't there that day.”
9 Months ago comment by OP:
“You need to breathe to live...pretty simple. If I didn't surface I would have drown. Everything about that dive was bad news, I was lucky to survive, you weren't there and literally don't know any of the details about that dive. I was overweighted, over exerted myself and consumed way too much energy while taking shallow breaths the entire dive in some stupid attempt to save on my air consumption. I was uncertified and completely inexperienced and had no business being in the water at all, not even 10 feet. At 100ft I was unable to inhale any breath properly, I was desperately trying to suck for air because I was out of breath from trying to ascend while being negatively buoyant and my breathing pattern went into a state of total panic in which I couldn't control it in the slightest and couldn't take a breath. There is no safety stop when you are an untrained diver and are having a panic attack under water. Panic is totally not my character at all in the slightest, but it happened to me that day in the water. It took me about 45 second to surface in which I had no breath, I could have passed out before I even fully ascended. It was a scary situation that won't happen again because I am now experienced and I would never do what I did on that dive again. You weren't in the water that day, so any condensing keyboard warrior crap you keep it to yourself. You have no idea. There were several factors that lead to that incident. Not sure what you are trying to accomplish questioning this event that happened 2 years ago and attempting to call me out as if I am completely unable to dive properly today in any capacity.”
11 months ago comment by OP:
“Wasn't narced that dive, I couldn't suck in air for whatever reason at depth. The 130 ft dive is strict because the shop I dove with didn't give me the pony I reserved, and it felt safer diving with a group at 130 rather than the stranger I was paired with at 100ft. Also don't only have 30 dives lol.”
1 Year ago comment by OP:
“Oh Definitely, this was 100% ignorance on my part due to lack of fear and understanding of Scuba. Got Certified shortly after this, and now am an Advanced diver. I don't believe it was narcosis that got me in trouble, just overworked myself and couldn't suck in enough air and didn't know how to respond, which lead to panic, which is completely out of character for me. I had a bit of fear going back to 100ft after this at first because it was in the back of my mind, but its been smooth sailing since.”
2 Years ago comment by OP:
“Yeah, this was me bring an idiot diving without certification on basically my 2nd dive ever, no training or experience. It's how people die. I have my certification and 30 dives under my belt now. Funny thing though, they don't teach about the co2 buildup in the open water course.”
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Safe diving!
Jim
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