IRAP Administrator
08-03-2007, 09:55 PM
This is a story about a buddy that I dived with in 1999. We were both at Cow Springs, I had about 75 cave dives....and he newly certified as a Full Cave Diver (or so he told me, I wonder now) I noticed that he was breathing the short hose on the left post, BUT had the long hose "stuffed" under a bungie on the wing's right side. I told him about this, and asked who taught him that, and how could he reach it....etc etc...? He agreed that he had it set up for "wreck" (?) and that he would put it around his neck, in a neclace prior to this dive. I said OK, and NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT AGAIN. It NEVER dawned on me when he got in the water for the dive, not so niave' anymore.
We proceeded upstream uneventful, to a penetration of about 1000 feet. At this point (me leading) he began violently signaling me. I spin around and he is almost on top of me, no reg in his mouth, with eyes looking at my second stage. He paws me, finally gets the reg in his mouth correctly, and starts sucking it down. I instantly give him the OK signal, and thumbs up.
We began our exit, working in tandem, up through the fault area, and toward the entrance. After we swam about 200 feet, I signaled him to stop. I reached over, spun the left side knob, and gas hisses into the reg which had he had been breathing. He looked sheepeshly at me, and checked it......it was ok. We exited a bit "rattled". In the low area, his right knob rolled off on the ceiling, cutting he gas supply.....and because he had NO reg to grab for, and was inexperienced (remember, bungied behind his wing) he came to me. There were a lot of mistakes made on this div
We proceeded upstream uneventful, to a penetration of about 1000 feet. At this point (me leading) he began violently signaling me. I spin around and he is almost on top of me, no reg in his mouth, with eyes looking at my second stage. He paws me, finally gets the reg in his mouth correctly, and starts sucking it down. I instantly give him the OK signal, and thumbs up.
We began our exit, working in tandem, up through the fault area, and toward the entrance. After we swam about 200 feet, I signaled him to stop. I reached over, spun the left side knob, and gas hisses into the reg which had he had been breathing. He looked sheepeshly at me, and checked it......it was ok. We exited a bit "rattled". In the low area, his right knob rolled off on the ceiling, cutting he gas supply.....and because he had NO reg to grab for, and was inexperienced (remember, bungied behind his wing) he came to me. There were a lot of mistakes made on this div