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You do those affected by these horrific tragedies an honor by describing the situations so professionally. I’ll continue to appreciate your videos because of this.
For a marine based channel, you have a sense of humour that's drier than the Sahara. Your "flippers & goggles" cracked me up. One of the best channels on RUclips, love your work, please keep it up!
Mate, in the last 2 days I have binge watched/listened to every single video you’ve posted 😂😂 This is such a good channel to listen to in the background while punching out a 10 hour work day. Keep up the content. Big props from AUS 🇦🇺
haha, me too! Certainly more of the commercial diving stuff is super interesting to me, as I am just a recreational diver and sit behind a computer all day! I didn't even know what a 'riser' was..
That was horrible about the youngster breathing off an Argon bottle. A friend off mine had this exact same thing happen to his friend. They guy wanted to recover something that fell overboard while docked in the harbor. He grabbed my friends Argon bottle and threw a regulator on it and went overboard.The guy saw out of the corner of his eye what happened and immediately jumped in after him. He said it only took a few breaths for him to go unconscious.He was brought to the surface and resuscitated.
Hey guys. I've put these two stories out before. Not many people have seen the stories. I'm working on a big one for next weekend and I just wanted to give you something to fill in the gap.
Hi there. Question for you. Do you know why the winch cable snapped in the first story? I can only try to imagine the horror felt by the crew of the rescue helicopter, when they saw/felt that cable snap and then have to watch as the victim plummeted back down to the water. Also, you do excellent work on these videos. I have never gone scuba diving, so don't know much about the technical aspects of diving, but I learn something new about it with every video I watch! Your videos are clearly very well researched, well scripted and fascinating to watch! Your passion for what you do is very evident and comes across very clearly in the videos. Thank you for putting so much hard work into your videos and for making them as accurate as you possibly can. Thanks to you I finally understand how a re-breathed actually works. Keep up the excellent work! 😁
Really enjoy the way you tell these stories. They’re fascinating but you cover the details whilst maintaining the viewer’s interest just brilliantly. Hope the channel continues to build.
Love that there's a recognizable authentic human telling these stories... You're obviously enthusiastic and careful about the research, rather than some disembodied voice that may as well have copy-pasted somebody else's work... Subbed because of that "human element"... Keep doing what you do. ;o)
Poor Harold. His number was definitely up. Was anyone held accountable for any of his injuries or death? Did he die from blood loss from the propeller or trauma from the drop?
That story about Harold was horrible, the poor, poor man 😔 I'm happy that the second story about John had a happier outcome at least. I just wanted to add a little bit of extra information to John's story, from a chemist's point of view: some people might wonder why, if the pony tank only had some argon in it and the rest was air (and argon is a non-toxic gas), then why did it have the effect that it did on John... It actually comes down to the density of the argon, which is about 40% heavier than air. Non-toxic gases which are denser than air are still very dangerous because when they enter the lungs, they will settle deep down into the lungs and are harder to exhale. As the heavier gas builds up in the lungs over multiple breaths, it will eventually completely displace any oxygen from entering the lungs, so the person will asphyxiate despite having access to oxygen. A good example of this is SF6 - some people might have seen videos of someone playing around with sulfur hexafluorane, aka the "Darth Vader gas", which gives one an extremely deep voice in an opposite manner to helium; this occurs because SF6 is a very dense gas, but it can be dangerous to do this trick because the gas is extremely difficult to evacuate from the lungs, and the individual can pass out or worse after just a few breaths if they aren't careful. (Btw this is at least what I understood occurred in the story, when you said that Bill thought he'd drained the tank thoroughly before putting it into rotation as an air tank, I took that to mean that there was still some argon in the tank when he refilled it with air, which is very possible since it's so heavy. Apologies if I misunderstood and you meant that the pony tank still contained entirely argon, though the effect would have been the same even if John had been able to surface and grab a few breaths. Again, I'm very happy all turned out well in this case though)
Thanks that's helpful. It's not clear in the research if he did drain it or if he thought he had. It could very well be that he had but there was still some argon but I thought the insinuation was that it was 100% argon.
@@waterlinestories no worries, I guess it was the same effect either way in this case, but it's definitely a big reason that even inert, non-toxic gases can be dangerous and need to follow the stringent rules about gas tank colors and fittings. And btw, thank you for providing such amazingly detailed narratives about these subjects. I'm a recreational diver so of course that subject interests me, but I've also always found the industrial aspects of diving incredibly interesting, particularly the brutal work required in the petroleum industry. I recently found your channel and have been pretty much binging it ever since; I've never before found such great short-form docs about these subjects on RUclips and I'm loving them (even if so many are horribly sad and infuriating). Thanks again, and keep up the amazing work!
Hands down awesome channel. I've subbed after watching two uploads. The other channels with similar content are missing out on the technical aspect of diving. You deliver on that. Very cool you explain things in an easy to understand way for non-divers. We don't always need diving incidents to be told as a horror story with the scare factor. These incidents are awful enough as it is.
I'm happy to see that the ineffable algorithm seems to be smiling on you lately - and not undeservedly. Combining these two older stories was a great idea, the majority of new subscribers won't have seen them yet so hopefully it'll keep the fires stoked while you prepare your next original video.
There aren't too many of your videos I haven't watched yet. Absolutely enjoying each and every one of them and especially the diving related topics, keep it up Paul and greetings from Würzburg😉
Mate, I've watched like every single one of your videos over the past 2 days 🤣🤣. Last time I binge watched was the walking dead lmao, I really enjoy your videos, they're so well spoken and incredibly interesting. I, and I'm sure many others greatly appreciate you making videos like these, they are hard to find, yet so incredibly interesting. Take care dude,
7:50 The pressure of water and air is the same with each other at all depths. Air (or other gas) just gets compressed. But avoid overinflating the drysuit, because it increases the pressure inside it and can cause a safety risk.
I really find it hard to fathom someone could put argon in a normal bottle. Even in the welding sphere gas bottles have color coding, thread pitches and even reverse threads to prevent accidents. Which is extra critical when you work around sensitive gases like Acetylene and Oxygen on the same equipment for cutting torches. Also to all divers never ever try to use a welders oxygen bottle for respiration. The oxygen is often contaminated with machine fumes and oil from the industrial processes used to fill them!
@@theq4602 am pretty sure that welders also learnt that the hard way 95% of safety standards are written in blood. I don’t remember it very clearly so this may be incorrect, but there was that case where swapped gas lines lead to the release of way too much nitrogen ( used as a shield gas ) into the working space, causing someone to suffocate; so unswappable gas lines are definitely not universal.
These are stories that can happen to anyone. It's quite easy to run into these mistakes especially if you're not keeping in mind these worst case scenarios. Scary, but true enough to be mindful of for you or a friend.
I knew what had happened as soon as you said the kid was unresponsive. Hell, what a mistake. Credit to Bill for sharing the episode. Given the risk/benefit balance I really can't see any case for using pure argon in any diving environment. inert gas asphyxiation is a surprisingly fast way to become incapacitated and is used as a method of euthenasia in Switzerland. It is also being looked at as a means of capital punishment as it requires no medical training to carry out. I'm no fan of the death penalty but it has to be better than untrained prison guards making a hideous bodge of trying to poison inmates when they can't even get an IV in properly.
Yeah. I'm working on another big one. These two stories have very low views so I thought I'd combine them to test a group story format and fill in before the next big video.
@Waterline Stories Oh awesome! Look forward to it. The production value here is the best I've ever seen and the content is top notch. And I've checked out almost every "diving and caving gone wrong" channel that has popped up in the last year.
LoL !!! How dare you ?? Calling such things goggles and flippers ..... Thats hilarious because you are so right about being corrected , I've been a scuba diver most of my life and I still get a laugh from calling them goggles and flippers in front of some certain divers I know , and I do it just for the reaction knowing what these guys are like I deliberately do it to set them off !!!! Hahaha LoL 😂😂😂😂
I feel like an easy fix for the first story is having a red flag or light positioned somewhere on the barge with the best visibilty to signify that a diver is in the water.
I can only imagine the winch breaking from the first story was due to poorly maintained equipment. Some don’t realize how important it is to check your gear!
3:00 1959 things were likely done much differently as currently in 2024 we can only hope the free diving community is in the practice of placing a dive flag in the waterway to mitigate this kind of tragedy!
is that the recent girl who died under PADI? her instructor wasn't qualified to teach dry (might have gotten the facts wrong) and was a new instructor. there was a lawsuit about it and people were saying PADI won't stand by you if anything happens. would be open to you (or anyone else) commenting about that. i myself got separated from my instructor (a 1:1 course) and when i met him on the boat again and told him i was having a headache, he laughed it off. i have written in to PADI to ask what their SOP for such incidents are and course standards (as we didn't finish the dive, and there were other mistakes made on a previous dive like knowingly going down with the wrong mixture of nitrox) but they say they can't reveal that information
So yes that was the case of Leona Mills who died under the care of an instructor not qualified to teach drysuit diving. The course was not a drysuit course but the instructor did not recognise several key failures. Too much weight on the belt and NO drysuit hose to inflate the drysuit as she descended. So the drysuit crushed her and she couldn't ascend. PADI have you sign a bunch of stuff to say they have provided all the relevant material and if an Instructor sticks to that then they will back them. But their lawyers will be looking for how the instructor deviated from that and then hang them out to dry. Cover your arse. Your headache would have most likely been a buildup of carbon dioxide from skip breathing where you hold your breath just slightly. A small amount of CO2 has a disproportionate effect at depth and very common for new divers. Should not have been laughed off though. On a 1:1 dive it sounds like your instructor was new. Going down on a different mix of Nitrox is not great. If you stop and redo calculations and you know what the adjusted limits are then I would say you adjusted your dive plan to meet the circumstances. Thats why a mix is tested, so that you can make those adjustments and fine tune your dive plan. But to ignore it and carry on is not a good idea. What was the course? Are you Nitrox certified?
@@waterlinestories I'm Nitrox certified. It was because we analysed the tanks that we found their mixes were wrong. We were supposed to go down with 28%, but while 2 were analysed to be 28%, one was 23% and the other 25% (4 tanks over 2 dives). The tanks were analysed a whopping day before the dives and I had expected them to change the 2 tanks. However on the next dive morning, the instructor said we were going to use them anyway. He gave me the 28% tanks while he used the others, but that meant we had to follow his tanks, which was why the 3rd dive was cut short as he had to turn back quite suddenly, and early. I didn't have time to complete all my tasks, which was to deploy the smb at depth, so he did it for me while I navigated back. We also had to turn back at 30m instead of the 35m that it should have been had we been able to go on longer (my personal objective of experiencing 35m wasn't met, and being at 35-40m was the only reason why I took up the course).
@@waterlinestories PADI has asked for the dive profiles of all the dives which I've furnished. I don't think he's a new instructor. I think it's one of those dive shops that churn OW and AOW students. When I was on the boat with other fun divers including a very young and naive boy, I literally heard his instructor full on entice him into taking a Nitrox course, saying that, "breathing Nitrox feels so much better than air, you're gonna love it, I promise you". I personally don't feel any difference (yes, others might, but that doesn't mean you should bait someone like that).
I see. What course was it? He may have viewed those as personal requests but not requirements for the course in which case he hasn't broken standards. If he didn't break standards then PADI would not be interested.
2:17 Don't want anyone getting the wrong idea ... That lobster is way below the legal size limit. Please please don't take undersize animals. Check your regional fishery regulations.
Did anything happen to the guy who accidentally chopped up diver? And did anything happen to the muppets dropped the already heavily injured Diver from the Helicopter???
Ya know I would like to know what came of the Coast Guard Helicopter investigation about the cable breaking because I believe that he would have lived if it hadn't broken. And I have been a Canadian Coast Guard member for a lot of years and you have lots of free time to inspect clean and polish and do maintenance plus the fact that your boss is the government and you basically have an unlimited budget that cable would have been replaced every few months that is why I would like to know more such as did the cable break or did the cable hardware break such as the cable clamps etc or did it have something to do with the basket????
Argon isn't poisonous, it's a noble gas that doesn't chemichally react in the human body. It doesn't do anything to us, good or bad. That's the issue though. Our bodies have no use for Argon. Our bodies do have a use for Oxygen however. We kinda need it to live. So, breathing pure Argon is extremely dangerous, not because because it's poisonous but because it isn't Oxygen.
Denser gas transmits heat faster I thought. Like, the random motion of the gas has more oopportunity to transfer energy. Oh well. I'm not a diver, or physicist
After hearing about Harold and being a parent I just couldn't listen to the 2nd story. First one of your videos that I didn't complete. My favorite story has been the one on how they took out the boys from the caves .
@@chri-k 1. They should have inspected their equipment. 2. They should have moved the patient to a location that did not generate so much prop wash. 3. They could have but the patient in the basket and then waited to raise it fully until they were over the water that way if he fell out he wouldn't have slammed into the barge. Excuses are like assholes.
I have several tech certs and I call them flippers, because I like to watch the owd certy-bois faces when I hook to a gas they don't understand how to use after they felt so valiant correcting me.
I was amused to see that the first segment of this video included footage of a Maine Lobster being caught...supposedly off Santa Barbara Island? Pacific Spiny lobster do not have claws, and are the only species found in the waters off Santa Barbara Island; Maine lobster have claws and are not found along the Pacific coast of California. Amateurish mistake! Glad that at least you can tell a mask from goggles and fins from flippers.
Googles always seem to be for swimming, flippers i bought a few times as a kid... agian for swimming. Masks and fins are built differently and thus cost more. Its like the fake airsoft stuff ppl put on guns....
It's not a barbecue, it's a grill. Barbecue refers to a style if flavors used to season meats. If you ever want to get under the skin of a Texan, conflate these two words.
@Waterline Stories ...I really like your broadcast! Incredible explanation of Dive Physics, a touch of suspense, and a cool as hell South African accent! Bravo Zulu!
I'm far from being a water guy I've gone swimming in town pools but if im in an active area I'd have lights,balloons,flags,a boat over me why would you dive in a place that is like a road and not make sure ppl knew you are under water?
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You do those affected by these horrific tragedies an honor by describing the situations so professionally. I’ll continue to appreciate your videos because of this.
Thanks, I really appreciate that
For a marine based channel, you have a sense of humour that's drier than the Sahara. Your "flippers & goggles" cracked me up. One of the best channels on RUclips, love your work, please keep it up!
🤣 thanks
Mate, in the last 2 days I have binge watched/listened to every single video you’ve posted 😂😂
This is such a good channel to listen to in the background while punching out a 10 hour work day.
Keep up the content. Big props from AUS 🇦🇺
Thanks. That's awesome, I really appreciate it.
haha, me too! Certainly more of the commercial diving stuff is super interesting to me, as I am just a recreational diver and sit behind a computer all day! I didn't even know what a 'riser' was..
That was horrible about the youngster breathing off an Argon bottle. A friend off mine had this exact same thing happen to his friend.
They guy wanted to recover something that fell overboard while docked in the harbor. He grabbed my friends Argon bottle and threw a regulator on it and went overboard.The guy saw out of the corner of his eye what happened and immediately jumped in after him. He said it only took a few breaths for him to go unconscious.He was brought to the surface and resuscitated.
Hey guys. I've put these two stories out before. Not many people have seen the stories.
I'm working on a big one for next weekend and I just wanted to give you something to fill in the gap.
I've been binge watching your channel for 2 days. Amazing content, tastefully done.
Thanks. Welcome aboard
Hi there. Question for you. Do you know why the winch cable snapped in the first story? I can only try to imagine the horror felt by the crew of the rescue helicopter, when they saw/felt that cable snap and then have to watch as the victim plummeted back down to the water.
Also, you do excellent work on these videos. I have never gone scuba diving, so don't know much about the technical aspects of diving, but I learn something new about it with every video I watch! Your videos are clearly very well researched, well scripted and fascinating to watch! Your passion for what you do is very evident and comes across very clearly in the videos. Thank you for putting so much hard work into your videos and for making them as accurate as you possibly can. Thanks to you I finally understand how a re-breathed actually works.
Keep up the excellent work! 😁
Really enjoy the way you tell these stories. They’re fascinating but you cover the details whilst maintaining the viewer’s interest just brilliantly. Hope the channel continues to build.
Thanks. I hope so too
Love that there's a recognizable authentic human telling these stories... You're obviously enthusiastic and careful about the research, rather than some disembodied voice that may as well have copy-pasted somebody else's work... Subbed because of that "human element"... Keep doing what you do. ;o)
Thanks
Poor Harold. His number was definitely up. Was anyone held accountable for any of his injuries or death? Did he die from blood loss from the propeller or trauma from the drop?
I can only imagine if anyone was it would have been the person that signed off on the winch being safe to use
Hard to say, any of these could have killed him. A bit of a case of "too much everything". Poor bugger.
That story about Harold was horrible, the poor, poor man 😔 I'm happy that the second story about John had a happier outcome at least.
I just wanted to add a little bit of extra information to John's story, from a chemist's point of view: some people might wonder why, if the pony tank only had some argon in it and the rest was air (and argon is a non-toxic gas), then why did it have the effect that it did on John... It actually comes down to the density of the argon, which is about 40% heavier than air. Non-toxic gases which are denser than air are still very dangerous because when they enter the lungs, they will settle deep down into the lungs and are harder to exhale. As the heavier gas builds up in the lungs over multiple breaths, it will eventually completely displace any oxygen from entering the lungs, so the person will asphyxiate despite having access to oxygen.
A good example of this is SF6 - some people might have seen videos of someone playing around with sulfur hexafluorane, aka the "Darth Vader gas", which gives one an extremely deep voice in an opposite manner to helium; this occurs because SF6 is a very dense gas, but it can be dangerous to do this trick because the gas is extremely difficult to evacuate from the lungs, and the individual can pass out or worse after just a few breaths if they aren't careful.
(Btw this is at least what I understood occurred in the story, when you said that Bill thought he'd drained the tank thoroughly before putting it into rotation as an air tank, I took that to mean that there was still some argon in the tank when he refilled it with air, which is very possible since it's so heavy. Apologies if I misunderstood and you meant that the pony tank still contained entirely argon, though the effect would have been the same even if John had been able to surface and grab a few breaths. Again, I'm very happy all turned out well in this case though)
Thanks that's helpful. It's not clear in the research if he did drain it or if he thought he had. It could very well be that he had but there was still some argon but I thought the insinuation was that it was 100% argon.
@@waterlinestories no worries, I guess it was the same effect either way in this case, but it's definitely a big reason that even inert, non-toxic gases can be dangerous and need to follow the stringent rules about gas tank colors and fittings.
And btw, thank you for providing such amazingly detailed narratives about these subjects. I'm a recreational diver so of course that subject interests me, but I've also always found the industrial aspects of diving incredibly interesting, particularly the brutal work required in the petroleum industry. I recently found your channel and have been pretty much binging it ever since; I've never before found such great short-form docs about these subjects on RUclips and I'm loving them (even if so many are horribly sad and infuriating). Thanks again, and keep up the amazing work!
So glad John made a full recovery!!
Thats very lucky
Fortunately, they introduced the obligation to put on a diving buoy
I think it saved a lot of lives
Hands down awesome channel. I've subbed after watching two uploads. The other channels with similar content are missing out on the technical aspect of diving. You deliver on that. Very cool you explain things in an easy to understand way for non-divers. We don't always need diving incidents to be told as a horror story with the scare factor. These incidents are awful enough as it is.
Really really really good short stories. These kinds are my favorite. Id love to hear about the girl in a dry suit, thanks! 🙋🏽♀️
Awesome video's. I saw them before but I can listen to you all day!!
😂 thanks. I won't make a habit of repositing but I just needed to buy some time while I work on another long one.
@@waterlinestories That's perfectly fine with me
Excellent presentation, no extra drama, just the facts.
I'm happy to see that the ineffable algorithm seems to be smiling on you lately - and not undeservedly. Combining these two older stories was a great idea, the majority of new subscribers won't have seen them yet so hopefully it'll keep the fires stoked while you prepare your next original video.
Thanks. Yeah they were two short videos with low traction. Maybe they needed some company. 😂
I really appreciate, that someone sends you flippers and goggles for your video
Ah man, there’s always one 😂
@@waterlinestories👋 😁😁😁
Looks like the algorithm has picked you up. Nice content, been watching your videos all night.
Thanks. Yes, seems the algorithm god's are shining on this channel for a moment. Thanks for watching
Yeah same for me mate I've clicked on one of his vids before and still been watching his channel hours later, interesting stuff eh?
There aren't too many of your videos I haven't watched yet. Absolutely enjoying each and every one of them and especially the diving related topics, keep it up Paul and greetings from Würzburg😉
Oh hey. Thanks that’s great. 🍺 Prost
These are very well done videos. Definitely going to sub and binge the entirety of your uploads over the past next days
Thanks. I appreciate that
Mate, I've watched like every single one of your videos over the past 2 days 🤣🤣. Last time I binge watched was the walking dead lmao, I really enjoy your videos, they're so well spoken and incredibly interesting. I, and I'm sure many others greatly appreciate you making videos like these, they are hard to find, yet so incredibly interesting. Take care dude,
Thanks for the content! Very well done, mate.
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My heart stopped when you said Argon. These are some traumatic stories...
FYI: The lobster shown at 2:15 is an Atlantic lobster. - Pacific lobsters have no claws.
7:50 The pressure of water and air is the same with each other at all depths. Air (or other gas) just gets compressed. But avoid overinflating the drysuit, because it increases the pressure inside it and can cause a safety risk.
i spent like 3 hour binge watching and then lost your channel glad it got re recommend... subbed
Awesome. Glad it going you again
"...and they WILL correct you." Heh! So awful!
🤣
Not only will call them Water Spectacles and Flippy's. I will ask if that tank on your back holds a parachute.
New subscriber, love the content and factual style of delivery 👍
Like that Simpson sketch
I really find it hard to fathom someone could put argon in a normal bottle. Even in the welding sphere gas bottles have color coding, thread pitches and even reverse threads to prevent accidents.
Which is extra critical when you work around sensitive gases like Acetylene and Oxygen on the same equipment for cutting torches.
Also to all divers never ever try to use a welders oxygen bottle for respiration. The oxygen is often contaminated with machine fumes and oil from the industrial processes used to fill them!
@@abigmonkeyforme Jesus Christ I cant imagine having to learn that the hard way...
@@theq4602 am pretty sure that welders also learnt that the hard way 95% of safety standards are written in blood. I don’t remember it very clearly so this may be incorrect, but there was that case where swapped gas lines lead to the release of way too much nitrogen ( used as a shield gas ) into the working space, causing someone to suffocate; so unswappable gas lines are definitely not universal.
These are stories that can happen to anyone. It's quite easy to run into these mistakes especially if you're not keeping in mind these worst case scenarios. Scary, but true enough to be mindful of for you or a friend.
earned like 2k subs in 2 days. I think it's your time man. gj. proper content
Thanks. It's insane. The last few days have been a blur. But head down. Lots more stories to produce. Thanks for the support
Yeah, and I'm one of them! Glad this channel popped up in my recommendations - it's quality stuff.
Thanks and welcome aboard.
@@waterlinestories Thank YOU. I've been bingeing your channel the last few days, descending the disaster rabbit hole.
I knew what had happened as soon as you said the kid was unresponsive. Hell, what a mistake. Credit to Bill for sharing the episode. Given the risk/benefit balance I really can't see any case for using pure argon in any diving environment. inert gas asphyxiation is a surprisingly fast way to become incapacitated and is used as a method of euthenasia in Switzerland. It is also being looked at as a means of capital punishment as it requires no medical training to carry out. I'm no fan of the death penalty but it has to be better than untrained prison guards making a hideous bodge of trying to poison inmates when they can't even get an IV in properly.
I cannot believe they dropped Harold. Jfc what a terrible “rescue”.
This channel is going to blow up soon!!
Thanks, I hope so. Still a ways to go though I'm sure.
I have no idea why I’m so fascinated by these stories. These poor people. Just awful! 😢
What a horrific twist of fate. Although has this story been told here before?
Yeah. I'm working on another big one. These two stories have very low views so I thought I'd combine them to test a group story format and fill in before the next big video.
@Waterline Stories Oh awesome! Look forward to it. The production value here is the best I've ever seen and the content is top notch. And I've checked out almost every "diving and caving gone wrong" channel that has popped up in the last year.
Thanks, that's great to hear.
Please share the drysuite story. If it is the one I am thinking of, it will be interesting to hear what your views are.
LoL !!!
How dare you ??
Calling such things goggles and flippers .....
Thats hilarious because you are so right about being corrected , I've been a scuba diver most of my life and I still get a laugh from calling them goggles and flippers in front of some certain divers I know , and I do it just for the reaction knowing what these guys are like I deliberately do it to set them off !!!! Hahaha
LoL 😂😂😂😂
Impressively done episode I applaud you and the channel. Please do the story of the girl it’s very frustrating and sad, left me angry.
Thanks. I've got it on a list. Thanks for watching
Haven’t laughed that hard in awhile when u told us how get under skin of divers with goggles n flippers. 😂😂😂😂
Your channel is the best 🤩
Thanks
"Googles and Flippers" brings to mind a nine year old at the local pool. Not a diver. Lol
I really this channel, doing a great Job sir!
Thanks
I feel like an easy fix for the first story is having a red flag or light positioned somewhere on the barge with the best visibilty to signify that a diver is in the water.
Jesus, a moment of silence for Harold. That poor Man.
Poor Harold- his number was well and truly up ...😢💔💔
I can only imagine the winch breaking from the first story was due to poorly maintained equipment. Some don’t realize how important it is to check your gear!
3:00 1959 things were likely done much differently as currently in 2024 we can only hope the free diving community is in the practice of placing a dive flag in the waterway to mitigate this kind of tragedy!
If i ever decide to learn how to dive, I know who I'd want to teach me...
New England lobster on the west coast! We only have spiny lobsters here.
is that the recent girl who died under PADI? her instructor wasn't qualified to teach dry (might have gotten the facts wrong) and was a new instructor. there was a lawsuit about it and people were saying PADI won't stand by you if anything happens. would be open to you (or anyone else) commenting about that. i myself got separated from my instructor (a 1:1 course) and when i met him on the boat again and told him i was having a headache, he laughed it off. i have written in to PADI to ask what their SOP for such incidents are and course standards (as we didn't finish the dive, and there were other mistakes made on a previous dive like knowingly going down with the wrong mixture of nitrox) but they say they can't reveal that information
So yes that was the case of Leona Mills who died under the care of an instructor not qualified to teach drysuit diving. The course was not a drysuit course but the instructor did not recognise several key failures. Too much weight on the belt and NO drysuit hose to inflate the drysuit as she descended. So the drysuit crushed her and she couldn't ascend.
PADI have you sign a bunch of stuff to say they have provided all the relevant material and if an Instructor sticks to that then they will back them. But their lawyers will be looking for how the instructor deviated from that and then hang them out to dry. Cover your arse.
Your headache would have most likely been a buildup of carbon dioxide from skip breathing where you hold your breath just slightly. A small amount of CO2 has a disproportionate effect at depth and very common for new divers. Should not have been laughed off though. On a 1:1 dive it sounds like your instructor was new.
Going down on a different mix of Nitrox is not great. If you stop and redo calculations and you know what the adjusted limits are then I would say you adjusted your dive plan to meet the circumstances. Thats why a mix is tested, so that you can make those adjustments and fine tune your dive plan. But to ignore it and carry on is not a good idea.
What was the course? Are you Nitrox certified?
@@waterlinestories I'm Nitrox certified. It was because we analysed the tanks that we found their mixes were wrong. We were supposed to go down with 28%, but while 2 were analysed to be 28%, one was 23% and the other 25% (4 tanks over 2 dives). The tanks were analysed a whopping day before the dives and I had expected them to change the 2 tanks. However on the next dive morning, the instructor said we were going to use them anyway. He gave me the 28% tanks while he used the others, but that meant we had to follow his tanks, which was why the 3rd dive was cut short as he had to turn back quite suddenly, and early. I didn't have time to complete all my tasks, which was to deploy the smb at depth, so he did it for me while I navigated back. We also had to turn back at 30m instead of the 35m that it should have been had we been able to go on longer (my personal objective of experiencing 35m wasn't met, and being at 35-40m was the only reason why I took up the course).
@@waterlinestories PADI has asked for the dive profiles of all the dives which I've furnished. I don't think he's a new instructor. I think it's one of those dive shops that churn OW and AOW students. When I was on the boat with other fun divers including a very young and naive boy, I literally heard his instructor full on entice him into taking a Nitrox course, saying that, "breathing Nitrox feels so much better than air, you're gonna love it, I promise you". I personally don't feel any difference (yes, others might, but that doesn't mean you should bait someone like that).
I see. What course was it? He may have viewed those as personal requests but not requirements for the course in which case he hasn't broken standards. If he didn't break standards then PADI would not be interested.
Goggles and flippers 😊
There's always one. 🧐😂
Loved the Mask and Fins info for the normies 🤣Cheers for that! 😃
The winch cable broke because it's spun around so many times
I've seen photos of people fatally struck by boat propellers. The injuries are ALWAYS horrific, and I don't recommend going to look for said photos.
2:17 Don't want anyone getting the wrong idea ... That lobster is way below the legal size limit. Please please don't take undersize animals. Check your regional fishery regulations.
tempting to get a pair of flippers and those nose goggles
Nice derrick mr barge
I'm sure I'm not alone when I say, we want to hear the story about the girl!
"and they will correct you" hehehehe
But is a Robot a traffic light? Great vid.
Did anything happen to the guy who accidentally chopped up diver? And did anything happen to the muppets dropped the already heavily injured Diver from the Helicopter???
There's no information I could find but I wouldn't think so.
I really want to take up diving where do i get good goggles and flippers?
Kin el poor Harold had a rough day RIP buddy.
I've never heard the name of the Andrea Doria pronounced that way
Am glad Argon Pony bottle event turned out OK. Horrific all the same.
Ya know I would like to know what came of the Coast Guard Helicopter investigation about the cable breaking because I believe that he would have lived if it hadn't broken. And I have been a Canadian Coast Guard member for a lot of years and you have lots of free time to inspect clean and polish and do maintenance plus the fact that your boss is the government and you basically have an unlimited budget that cable would have been replaced every few months that is why I would like to know more such as did the cable break or did the cable hardware break such as the cable clamps etc or did it have something to do with the basket????
Argon isn't poisonous, it's a noble gas that doesn't chemichally react in the human body. It doesn't do anything to us, good or bad. That's the issue though. Our bodies have no use for Argon.
Our bodies do have a use for Oxygen however. We kinda need it to live. So, breathing pure Argon is extremely dangerous, not because because it's poisonous but because it isn't Oxygen.
I wonder how the cable broke. It could have previously been damaged I guess. It would have had a SWL much greater than the human body.
Winch system failure.
Denser gas transmits heat faster I thought. Like, the random motion of the gas has more oopportunity to transfer energy. Oh well. I'm not a diver, or physicist
That was just meant to be poor old Harold's day.
After hearing about Harold and being a parent I just couldn't listen to the 2nd story. First one of your videos that I didn't complete. My favorite story has been the one on how they took out the boys from the caves .
The kid in the second story makes a full recovery
The first story was terrible, what a disaster all round!
Hmm...no description of the shooter. Convenient.
Tell us about the girl who died from inflating her suit
Bet Harold wished he gave that gypse woman her bank loan
Skin diving sounds like Jeffrey Dahmer's favorite past time lol
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Imagine being so bad at your job you broke your rescuee
Imagine being so bad at your job that you broke your kid
that was mechanical failure of a thing which was being used correctly
@@chri-k 1. They should have inspected their equipment. 2. They should have moved the patient to a location that did not generate so much prop wash. 3. They could have but the patient in the basket and then waited to raise it fully until they were over the water that way if he fell out he wouldn't have slammed into the barge. Excuses are like assholes.
niceee
I have several tech certs and I call them flippers, because I like to watch the owd certy-bois faces when I hook to a gas they don't understand how to use after they felt so valiant correcting me.
Too right. 🤣
Dam first 5 seconds and I’m excited about this story….but sad
Boats are loud how did he accomplish this?
I was amused to see that the first segment of this video included footage of a Maine Lobster being caught...supposedly off Santa Barbara Island? Pacific Spiny lobster do not have claws, and are the only species found in the waters off Santa Barbara Island; Maine lobster have claws and are not found along the Pacific coast of California. Amateurish mistake! Glad that at least you can tell a mask from goggles and fins from flippers.
Googles always seem to be for swimming, flippers i bought a few times as a kid... agian for swimming. Masks and fins are built differently and thus cost more. Its like the fake airsoft stuff ppl put on guns....
It's not a barbecue, it's a grill. Barbecue refers to a style if flavors used to season meats. If you ever want to get under the skin of a Texan, conflate these two words.
😂 fair enough. I'm South African so we'd call BBQ - Braai.
@Waterline Stories ...I really like your broadcast! Incredible explanation of Dive Physics, a touch of suspense, and a cool as hell South African accent! Bravo Zulu!
😂 thanks
Some day, I fervently hope to find a diver using a barbecue in his goggles and flippers.
In NZ we call it a BBQ, now I know the difference I will change mlne to a grill (cold and rainy here, we can only grill for 3 months a year).
2nd story was kinda drama llama and hard to follow
The second vid, oof
What is a yuhr?
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Sand witch es
Derrick barge 8371
Eh? Diver Down flag have been too inconvenient? *Sigh*
Ho ly cow
That feeling when he realized he mixed up the bottles, must have been insane, i cant even imagine. "Did i just kill my son?!"
The Guilt . To his credit, he didn’t hide it and he spoke about it so others could learn
Impressive that he wrote up an essay on his own mistake.
I'm far from being a water guy I've gone swimming in town pools but if im in an active area I'd have lights,balloons,flags,a boat over me why would you dive in a place that is like a road and not make sure ppl knew you are under water?
Talk about cheating death.... I can't decide If someone didn't want him to die or really wanted him to die.
Jfc.
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