• We welcome content that is not political, divisive, or offensive. If we feel your content leans this way or has the potential to, it may be removed at any time. A hot pepper forum is not the place for such content. Thank you for respecting the community!

Morbid curiosities

G

Ghaleon

For a while, I was watching videos such as the Challenger blowing up..and then it was recordings from planes that went down.
 
Now it's the tragic drowning of cave divers.
 
Have any of you known anyone to actually do any cave diving? While the things they get to see are beautiful, the whole thing seems terrifying.
 
When I was younger I did some diving and a buddy of mine died cave diving. Such a nice guy. Very sad.
 
I did some free diving down in Honduras, and lots of spear fishing in the FLorida Keys. So, once I braved up at a place called Blue Spring (here in Florida) and tried to go part way down into the giant hole that blows water at something like 100 million gallons per day. So, it's pretty damn hard to swim against that. And it gets dark fast. And you get disoriented.
.
I thought it would be easy. I could only make it down about 30 feet. And on the way up, I had to swim between two logs that had fallen into the hole, and were narrowly placed. I barely got though, and smashed my head in the process. Needless to say, that was last time I attempted an unplanned free dive into a giant hole. Turns out, you ned to be certified for cave diving to go in that thing. Go figure.
 
Well the videos I watched said no amount of open water diving is sufficient. You gotta go through a ridiculous amount of training and certifications specifically for cave training.
 
There's a really narrow one with highly restrictive areas called Little Gator Siphon in Florida. I'm amazed anyone does THAT one..
 
I have done blue hole dives in Andros and off Eleuthera in the Bahamas when I was younger, it takes a lot of patience and precautions AND A HUGE AMOUNT of respect for the ocean. I have never done a proper fresh water cave dive as I dont like confined spaces. Rocky Dundas and the cavern of The 3 Maidens was always fun.
DF5F9EE1-E6F7-4346-BEE9-CD73EF7CD568.jpeg

536BCB97-E476-46B4-9343-2F621411C39B.jpeg

910A3CE0-3696-4F09-8805-52649891E59D.jpeg

30A7C4EE-EBB9-4CD5-8A37-E36C9930E71C.jpeg
 
So my daughter decided to follow me to the deep end of the water park's pool. I turn around and she's got her mouth barely above water and says "Daddy.. help..". Had I known beforehand that she'd be joining me on that end, it wouldn't have come to this but at that point, oh well.

So I go under and grab her by the waist and shove up to put her head above water and then, as luck would have it, I coughed and swallowed some water. After about 10 seconds some sense comes back to me and I realize that's just prolonging things and that I can't focus on keeping her head above water and moving away at the same time so I gradually and exhaustedly got us to the side so she could make her way to the ladder. Funny that this happens after me spending days reading about and watching dive accidents.

Saving someone when you can't touch bottom is a pain I'm the ass. Lol
 
Ghaleon said:
Saving someone when you can't touch bottom is a pain I'm the ass. Lol
Click to expand...
 
It's usually the rescuer who ends up dying in a failed save.  The number one reason, is that the panicked drowner is thrashing, clawing, groping, etc., and ends up pushing the rescuer under.
.
The solution is to grab the drowning person from behind, and roll onto your back, where you can use some measure of buoyancy, to minimize your effort, while rendering them unable to frontally access you - and also, because it's easier to breathe with your face pointing at the sky. :D
.
Sorry, I know you made it through, but I was a competitive swimmer for years.  My parents got me into that as a child, after a near drowning.
 
Advice is always good and welcome. I just reacted in the moment. I was shoving her upward for a good ten seconds before I realized that the plan had to change for things to go well.

The lifeguards were talking to each other at the time. All four of them. I didn't say anything after since it was part of an outing paid for by the church my kids attend and I'm certain the first sentence would've began "Alright, God damnit!" and there was still an hour and a half of time left.

She and I just repeatedly went down the slides after that. I plan on the whole family getting actual swimming lessons.
 
You are a lucky person, and those lessons will be money well invested.  
.
For the life of me, I'll never figure out what genius first thought of employing vain, empty-headed teenagers in a life-saving capacity.  I saw a guy drown at a local pool once.  He was drunk off of his ass, and decided to do underwater laps.  I have to say, I was pretty f**king impressed, because he was a pot-bellied redneck, and managed to do 2+ full laps, without surfacing, in an Olympic size pool. (the full length!)  He capsized sometime just before the 3rd lap was to begin, and wasn't found (IN THE SHALLOW END) until almost a full 5 minutes later, during the safety check.  When they pulled him out, he was the color of a smashed thumbnail, 3 days after you hit it with a hammer.  Miraculously, the paramedics brought him back, and he was able to walk out of the gate with only a human crutch. (we're country folk, it's not all that odd, to be honest :D)  All the while he was performing this feat, the lifeguards on duty were preening like peacocks.  Nevermind that even us kids could tell that he wasn't right when he walked in...
 
Even with him being intoxicated, that should've resulted in a lawsuit and I'm not the type that condones running to court at any given opportunity.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top