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Originally Posted by FredT
2. Not looking or "feeling" above you during ascent. Cross members in any sort of swell are right dangerous.
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Good points Fred,
I lost another good friend that was skin diving, he shot into a huge barracuda and the fish dragged him from the surface to 50'. He managed to wrap his gun around the pipe, then he shot to the surface starving for air and 2' before the surface he hit this round pipe just under the waters surface. He then sank back to the bottom.
We recovered his body 3 days later, the coroner said, even if we'd have gotten him on the boat before he drowned, he'd have been a vegetable from the head injury.
His name was Warren "Whip" Mermilliod. A 25 year veteran of the Hell Divers.
I have to say that on a deep dive 4 years ago, I was getting a little too cocky and almost did the same thing.
We bounced down to 230', we all shot very nice ARS. I shot up from there and just scraped my head on a pipe which at over 200' could have meant death.
Most rigs have a very similar pipe structure, but sometimes they are a little different. The one that Whip died on was a unique structure, I've never seen another like it in the Gulf. The one that I almost messed up on had diagonal pipes in the structure unlike most other rigs too.
Hand over Head, good rule to follow.