I HIT THE SAND AT THE ORISKANY ON AIR!!!!!

i rolled of the boat with double LP 95's topped to 3200 of regular ol' 21% air and a 40cuft of 100% O2. my plan was

150' for 5,

220 for 5,

150 for 10,

120 for 10,

100 for 10

then deco out at 70 for 3,     60 for 3,      50 for 4,     40 for 6,     30 for 8, 20' on O2 for 12

i got down to 150, grew some balls and down i went, getting more and more hammered every foot past 190 i got. at about 210' it took both hands to turn my flash light on, but i had no problem checking my air/bottom time/elapsed time. i did however have issues figuring out my bouancy once down at 224' due to the rediculous amount of gas that it takes at that depth to make you neutral. after 3 minutes at 224' i had seen a large shark, some giant snapper and grouper and some pretty colors it was time to go. had to use the side of the ship to get myself past the 200 mark  where i finally got possitive bouancy and started making my way back up.

the "O" is definately a different wreck now with the deck at 150'. what an experience...i have over 1000 logged dives and the one where i didn't even carry my gun is now my most memorable.

TIME FOR HELIUM!!!!!

 

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my f*%#ing gills are drying out...its about time for some less than 1ft days!!!

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Jon

I'll second your "time for helium" remark.  I hope you don't have any more such dive plans hanging in your office. 

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-Josh

16 ft. Avalon "Flat Bottom Girl"

26 ft. Pursuit "Trigger Happy"

Team Chunky Love member

You won't go past 135 until you see that prize grouper hovering around 150'  

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fenderbender, i don't care what you say...the next dive we do together will be deaper that 130 and i gaurandamntee you that you want to go shoot some fish...you need a speargun with a welding lead for a trigger handle. hope school is going well

i don't know about sh*tting BB's but i am still verticle not pretzel shaped.

cheers guys

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Good to see someone so fired up about diving.....you've obviously got the fever.

I't probably slipped your mind to let everyone know that you should be trained to that depth, and that you should be trained in the conditions and depths that you will experience.

To go and "touch the sand"  flys in the face of safety and the instruction that we rely on to keep us safe and protect those around us from our actions.

Safe Diving........G-Reaper......

dive safe all

-Josh

16 ft. Avalon "Flat Bottom Girl"

26 ft. Pursuit "Trigger Happy"

Team Chunky Love member

Mr. Reaper, you make some excellent points.  While I've had the occasion to meet you several times, unfortunately I have never stuck around long enough to become one of your friends.  I have done many dives that I maybe shouldn't have done and I have seen many depths that I wasn't qualified to see.  While I am still here and still diving, I realize now that it was by the grace of God that I am still alive and well.  Diving is a very safe sport that does have its own unique set of risks.  The training agencies have spent many hours developing educational systems that both manage and reduce those risks.  By going outside of those guidelines by either going deeper than certified and trained, diving without a buddy, or pushing the limits of safe diving, you are taking a safe sport and increasingly making it more dangerous.  A good parallel is driving.  Driving, if done well, can be inherently safe.  But, as you start straying away from standard safe driving practices, you greatly increase your risk.  Using a cell phone while driving, driving after a couple of alcoholic beverages, or watching movies while driving won't instantly kill you, but it does make the task more risky.  While some might see this dive as "successful," I would call it lucky.  With the narcotic effects you experienced, your reaction times to any arising problems might have been too slow to respond.

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Josh -- MBT Divers

Secondly....I do not recommend anybody being like Sean!!! Nobody, Nobody, Nobody.  Sean has a lot of experience and a lot more training then most divers. 

You know one bit of advice I'll never forget  is what an old dive shop owner here in hattiesburg told me after I told him about Fender's AJ.  He said, "You know that's stupid...Guys get away with doing stupid things all the time in diving and don't get hurt, then a young diver like you thinks it's ok and it's not!." 

Like I said before Sean has a lot of experience....and DO NOT BE LIKE SEAN!! 

Hey Sean was it worth doing again?   Try not to be so inspiring to others in your response LOL

Take care. Kenny

kennethmandel62 (10/27/2008)

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Sean you're nuts man...I'm glad you had your plan laid out for a while (yeah right...you made it up about 2 sec before you hit the water ).  You're a good guy and I'm definitely glad everything went as planned and you are alright.

Secondly....I do not recommend anybody being like Sean!!! Nobody, Nobody, Nobody.  Sean has a lot of experience and a lot more training then most divers. 

You know one bit of advice I'll never forget  is what an old dive shop owner here in hattiesburg told me after I told him about Fender's AJ.  He said, "You know that's stupid...Guys get away with doing stupid things all the time in diving and don't get hurt, then a young diver like you thinks it's ok and it's not!." 

Like I said before Sean has a lot of experience....and DO NOT BE LIKE SEAN!! 

Hey Sean was it worth doing again?   Try not to be so inspiring to others in your response LOL

And that dive shop owner you speak of in Hattiesburg would be Jim Toombes... ha ha ha ha I got my nitrox cert from him back in 2002. Strange guy for sure. But he is right.. diving is serious and the consequences can certainly be unforgiving. We all need to never lose our respect for the ocean and diving and spearfishing and the dangers that they entail.

-Josh

16 ft. Avalon "Flat Bottom Girl"

26 ft. Pursuit "Trigger Happy"

Team Chunky Love member

 

 

"You just cant beat the person who never gives up." Babe Ruth

  

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Escambia Search And Rescue
Commander of the Dive Team
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the only reason i even considered it was to confirm to myself only that further training is a must and as it has been said multiple times, we all push the limits (especially me) and get away with it, but what about that 1 time that we don't. litterally, had something gone bad down there, i know that i would not have been able to fix it where i would normally be able to in the 0-150' range. my original message should have been titled "dont try this at home"

me even going to that depth put people other than me at risk, which i never intended (i.e. selfishness) but in a way i'm glad i went because it just stresses that fact that you have to respect the sea or you won't make it...i'm luckier than most i guess but i am definately "back in check"

cheers to all, sorry to the ones that i put in jeopardy.

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Yes, pushing ones limits is what learning is all about, but in deep diving it's important to have someone there to save your a** the first few times you screw up. A good instructor will even cause a few problems on purpose if you are sailing along too smoothly to be learning anything.  Alone, at 200+ feet isn't the time to learn what to do if you loose your mask with an hour of deco to do, or how to figure your deco without any gauges, or that throwing away a $1000 deco rig may save your life, or how not to get caught in one of the million little traps that you can unknowingly get yourself into if you haven't already been busted doing them a few times already.

     This is still an experimental sport, but it's arrogant to experiment before you have learned all that your instructors can teach.

Extremely well put!

Death From Above

      It was fun while it lasted.”

Hitler on WWII

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Mike aka FishWerks (10/28/2008)

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G-Reaper (10/27/2008)

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Hello Sean......

Good to see someone so fired up about diving.....you've obviously got the fever.

I't probably slipped your mind to let everyone know that you should be trained to that depth, and that you should be trained in the conditions and depths that you will experience.

To go and "touch the sand" flys in the face of safety and the instruction that we rely on to keep us safe and protect those around us from our actions.

Safe Diving........G-Reaper......

Very well said and it needed to be said. Your post count makes me wonder; Who are you really Mr. Reaper?

Mike, G-Reaper is one of the most qualified divers I know to speak on the subject.

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If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will lay hold of me Psalms 139: 9-10

"Semper Fidelis!"