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Posted: 10/31/2004 1:40:55 PM EDT
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11232252^1702,00.html Record-breaker diver finds skeleton From correspondents in Johannesburg October 30, 2004 AN Australian deep-water diver attempting a world-record dive in South Africa found the skeletal remains of a fellow diver who disappeared down the same sinkhole 10 years ago, South African radio said today. David Shaw found the remains of Deon Dreyer, who died at Boesmansgat in the arid Northern Cape province in 1994, at a depth of 271 metres, SABC radio said. The Australian said he wanted to go deeper, but decided to stop after making the grisly discovery. Mr Shaw did however break the previous record of 242 metres for diving with special equipment, rather than normal scuba gear. He took nine-and-half hours to resurface, spending most of the time decompressing. |
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Hmm. I should have a PADI certification by this time next week. I hope I've not found a new hobby to consume me!
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Sounds like a tie to me. |
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LOL, thats awesome |
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Time for a new hobby.
271 meters = 889 feet The recreational diving limit is 130 feet Darwin award for anybody trying to go that deep |
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I got mine this summer. It will consume your wallet. |
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He could have singlehandedly saved thsoe Russkies on the Kursk! Wow, post 601!
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I guess I am screwed. Between shooting, diving, skydiving (when I get back from C.A. I am gonna) and racing. |
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People that dive deep whether free or with equipment to break a record are stupid. It's a hold my beer and watch this endeavor.
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Just wait until PIE gets involved. |
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It just gets worse |
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I'm gonna do the AFF course here at our local drop zone...I wanted to go with a co-worker of mine, but he decided to play hooky from work two Fridays ago to go skydiving, and broke his ankle on the first jump (it was #60 in total for him). I guess he found out the hard way that it's not good to skydive in sandals...dunno WTF he was thinking...karma's a bitch, ain't it???
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Bwahahahahahahahaha! I know that guy! |
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Really? What's his name? Where do you jump? |
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Z-Hills. It happened when you said, same jump numbers! Cant remember his name off the top of my head but none of us were suprised. He was a little cocky for such low experience. I wasnt at the landing area at the time I was at home and I just heard about it the next day. |
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At that depth, the water pressure on his body is 435.61 pounds per square inch! His regulator has to be delivering air to him at slightly above that pressure level in order for any air to be transferred to him! His internal pressures have to match or he's crushed, and I can well understand over nine hours spent decompressing/deflating.
CJ |
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he must-ove looked like a prune |
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Argon inflated drysuit I bet. |
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Diving into a sinkhole = Not recreational diving. Good for him, unfortunatly the world record for open circuit SCUBA is 1032 FSW. |
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Wow - that deep, the pressure is about 400 PSI! I wouldn't doubt it would take several hours to depressurize. I wonder what you would look like if you had a bouyant device that brought you to the surface quickly. Probably a mess of blood and bones.
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You wouldnt explode if you came up from that depth that fast. Unless of course you held your breath. But you sure would have a Nasty case of DCS. Then again the article didnt say anything about what his breathing mix was. Obviously not Air.
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Probably said by both competitors in this case. |
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I seriously doubt that. Technical/Deep diving is extremely complicated and requres many hours of planning and vast amounts of support. If someone were to try and dive to that depth while breathing air they would be dead way before 271 meters. They wouldnt last much past 80 meters. At that point they would be suffering from both extreme Nitrogen Narcosis and Oxygen Toxcicity. Anybody who dives to 271M and lives to tell the tale is a serious professional. |
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Hrmph, my NAUI cert's only to 130 feet, but it gets a little dark down that far and you've only got a few nondecomp minutes anyway. Does PADI still go to 100 feet, or have they hit some kind of agreement now? Maybe the guy wanted to go deep just to get narked!
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No crap. I dont like going deep. All my dives are a small kick out from shore in about 40 feet of water. |
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"Next up.....record-setting diver David Shaw attempts underwater bumpfiring at a depth of 271 meters.......Will his Bushmaster make it?????" |
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I've been to 139' on 36% NITROX. |
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That's why I said some sort of floatation device, to make him come to the surface quickly, before allowing his body to depressurize at all. That much pressure, if you don't give your body time to depressurize, would probably tear you apart. |
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PADI goes to 130FT now. 139' on EAN36 I'm callin BS or your damn lucky 139'+EAN36=1.88PO2 Baaaaaaaaad |
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Your body pressure actually becomes equal to the water pressure after you're down there for a while. Fortunately, you're mostly water so the rules of hydraulics apply. Water is non-compressible, and it's the water in your body that keeps you from being crushed. Any air in your body has to be at an equal pressure as well, and if it's not, the body cavity that the air is in will try to collapse until equilibrium is reached.
Fish brought up from their habitats far down in the water will die very quickly and it's not unknown for them to actually rupture if they're brought up fast enough from deep enough water. CJ |
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Very true CM. I've brought up grouper from 60 feet that had their swim bladders pop out. It looks uncomfortable for them. |
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Fixed it for you. This guy MUST have had a controlled pressure drysuit, obviously. I bet it was cold |
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A controlled pressure dry suit? Please explain I gotta hear this. |
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I've been to 154' in the Haleiwa Trench on standard compressed air. Nothing to see but mud and empty beer cans.
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Not BS. Middle grounds in the gulf and the bottom of the ledge was 139 on my guage. I moved up to 120 right quick. I had been told the bottom was 120 and I went all the way down without checking. I kid you not. Short exposure at high partial pressures is or can be OK. From DANs website.
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I went to 162' in Hawaii in 1997. I was younger and stupider and just wanted to see how deep I could go. I realized I was narced and headed up to my wife/buddy at 120'. I was very lucky and I won't be doing that again.
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I don't think you can call BS on captainpooby, sorry. He makes those "extreme sports" guys on MTV look like a bunch o pussies. Bonus: He actually looks like Sammy Hagar. |
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To bad his try dont matter. The record so far is around if not over 1,000 feet. I beleive that it is the OMS website that talks about it. A quick google search should give you the info.
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Thanks Brass. DAN did a study a while back as well that said no one has ever taken a CNS hit at 1.6 ata within exposure limits. The only time my computer has ever put me close to overloading on O2 was on a liveaboard trip in the Keys diving 32% after 4 days of 80-90' foot dives. I only ever put myself into deco once as well and that was before I was certified. |
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I've been to over 150' on air. When you're at a 4000' dropoff, and slightly narked, it's unfortunately too easy to loose track Luckily my fiancee (my divebuddy was there) |
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British technical diver Mark Ellyatt is reported to have safely completed a dive to 311m (1026.9) feet in Thailand. The previous depth record was set by British diver John Bennett, who was the first person to dive below 1,000 feet when he set a 308m record off the Phillipines. Ellyat is reported to have taken 12 minutes to descend, with six hours and forty minutes of decompression. He carried six cylinders of bottom gas and was supplied with a further 24 cylinders by support divers during his decompression stops. |
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Ok My Bad Sorry. I just get sick of folks who have no idea of what Nitrox is and talk BS about it. I understand about dropping below your MOD by accident. I did it in Grand Cayman this year. |
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Thought it was 120 feet on the dive tables, but I havent dove in years so |
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No officially 130ft. I'm a PADI DM. Some instructors do teach 120 though cause its easily divisible by 30.
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Never having been deeper than the bottom of a 14 foot deep pool, I'd have to wonder what it felt like to be under over 1000 feet of water. What's it feel like to be operating under 457.4 pounds of pressure per square inch? When doing deep dives, do you feel anything different from a shallow dive? CJ |
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I'll tell you what I feel. The physical thing is really nothing the deeper you go but mentally its a big difference. Take a look outside and see how far 100' is. Not much huh? You could walk it in a few seconds right? Go 100' under water and its a whole 'nother ballgame. Now you CANT walk it in a few seconds. Not if you WANT to, not if you HAVE to. Feels kinda weird. Gotta trust your gear because I dont dive with a buddy. |
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As long as you equalize early/often it doesnt feel any different. As long as you know what you are doing and dont dive beyond your training/ability Its all good.
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