Diver in a Knot

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Comment by JOEY C. SEGOVIA on March 18, 2010 at 6:50am

The lesson(s) learned regarding this incident for the diving professional and the aspiring to be diving professional is/are multi faceted: 1) Don't wait too long to ask for help if you are in a bind, odd things happen on bottom sometimes to even the most experienced divers. 2) There SHOULD always be a chamber on deck so the diver and the standby diver may actually have had more time to figure out the "foul" in the umbilical up to a point; extended chamber time is always an option. 3)On any commercial dive spread burning gear SHOULD always be available.
CASE CLOSED. 4)The standby diver SHOULD always follow the main diver's umbilical to assist him/her, the hose in this case was obviously looped through itself, the standby should have been able to assist with the loop as visibility was excellent. 5) A standby diver sent down to assist in a fouled umbilical situation should always have a sharp knife,small crescent wrench,
and side cutter pliers. 6) Always remember that topside assistance i.e. proper tending of the diver's umbilical is invaluable to the diver as it keeps him/her oriented to the work and the worksite, a diver and the tender can feel when the umbilical is not "right". Continued safe diving
to all.

Comment by Amr Fathalla on March 16, 2010 at 5:08pm

Mapy the diver is asshole shit stupid one but the Big mistaken man was on the supervisor :
first it was his fault for not recognize and keeping up the diver steps, action, situation immediately and second for not responging fast enough and the thierd one was for not acting and taking many solution for solving the situation didn't thay have any tools any other options.... just cutting the Umbilical will solve the problem? Deep shit man

Comment by Nathan L. Rock on March 11, 2010 at 12:28pm

Hey Sean and Thomas - hopefully you're never in a situation that they didn't teach YOU in dive school. I don't think they were idiots - rather I'll commend the Divers and the Super for being so calm under pressure. Obviously this didn't take place yesterday and these are the mistakes that all of us have the advantage of learning from.

Comment by Skylar on March 11, 2010 at 11:19am

up on divers slack, follow your hose back...

Comment by liz vazz on March 11, 2010 at 9:51am

I think the diver wanted to cut his umbilical , Because he would rather die down there then face the others topside lol .

Comment by marino75 on March 11, 2010 at 9:42am

good answer, now we watch it on web. all is easy now.
the video is well to training to others and ourself, because you don't know when something bad can happen.......

Comment by Thomas Spencer on March 11, 2010 at 9:09am

Too stupid too live

Comment by justin lonborg on March 11, 2010 at 8:41am

At least he turned the blade around eventually.

Comment by liz vazz on March 11, 2010 at 8:21am

You have to remember doug they were pressed for time,So the solution was to cut. They spent too much time trying to figure it out. So by the time they sent rescue diver in , They had to cut. I know for a fact after watching it on dry land they figured it out, And now guess what its a video for training other divers .

Comment by Doug Smith on March 11, 2010 at 8:12am

Agreed. I can see the original diver possibly getting frustrated, disoriented, panicky - whatever but the safety diver that was sent down should have been able to see what was wrong. From looking at the video he had steped through a loop in the hose creating a knot - pull the hose out and step back through it the other way - duhhh.

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