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So diving a wreck with a bit of surface chop and current, jumped off the lift and aimed for the buoy. One of my mates had jumped in right behind me and we made it to the buoy at pretty much exactly the same time. In the usual mess of waves and froth, we swung around the buoy/line in opposite directions. I think I may have ended up with the tell tale instead of the main shot as when we met on the downwind side she kicked me in the face. (no fault on her part, shit happens). This partly dislodged my mask and loop. Flooding my mask and getting me a gob full of water. (first slip down the pit?)
I stuffed the loop back in and the unit breathed ok, at this point I was confident I still had 100% O2 in the loop as is my habit of O2 flushing on the boat. Still with a mask full of water I decided to get down a couple of metres out of the surface current hopefully and sort it out there. I suspect I did not vent all the air out of my wing at this point, and I was still coughing and spluttering from the gob full of water. Mask still mostly flooded (could really have done with both hands to sort it out) I pulled down the line finning to try avoid pulling the shot out, and when I thought I was down a few metres I started adding DIL (no ADV on my unit at this point) as I couldn't see my PO2 due to the flooded mask. (second slip down the pit...?)
Due to the effort of finning/pulling down, still being a bit fooked from the gobful of water, and getting some more water through my nose at some point I must have been breathing deeply as I needed a lot of DIL in to get enough volume in the loop, plus repeated efforts to clear the mask (which needed re seating anyway so was leaking like buggery), I must have flushed out most of the "pre jump o2 flush" oxy and replaced it with 18%. (third slip, this is turning into a bad day..)
At some point, my ears told me I was going back up (wtf?) must have been that I was pulling down the shot and some divers had got off the bottom of it. (PO2 drops on ascent... fourth slip...!! I decided "sod this it's home time" and blindly blew in some oxy. A short few seconds later I'd decided "no really, sod this", quite efficiently checked the valve on the bailout, purged the BOV and switched to it. (about the only sensible decision I'd made so far...)
I let go of the shot at this point and went up like a cork. I was dumping my wing with one hand and had just started faffing for the counterlung dump with the other and was already on the surface. I filled my wing, sorted my mask out and looked at my shearwater
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What the fook would that have been if I'd stayed on it for another minute breathing like a train finning down the shot and then surfaced without bailing out, or that blind squirt of oxy?
I got back on the boat and smoked fags and drank tea and had a good old think about that one.
Dive must have lasted all of about 3 minutes to go from fun to a cluster fuck.
I stuffed the loop back in and the unit breathed ok, at this point I was confident I still had 100% O2 in the loop as is my habit of O2 flushing on the boat. Still with a mask full of water I decided to get down a couple of metres out of the surface current hopefully and sort it out there. I suspect I did not vent all the air out of my wing at this point, and I was still coughing and spluttering from the gob full of water. Mask still mostly flooded (could really have done with both hands to sort it out) I pulled down the line finning to try avoid pulling the shot out, and when I thought I was down a few metres I started adding DIL (no ADV on my unit at this point) as I couldn't see my PO2 due to the flooded mask. (second slip down the pit...?)
Due to the effort of finning/pulling down, still being a bit fooked from the gobful of water, and getting some more water through my nose at some point I must have been breathing deeply as I needed a lot of DIL in to get enough volume in the loop, plus repeated efforts to clear the mask (which needed re seating anyway so was leaking like buggery), I must have flushed out most of the "pre jump o2 flush" oxy and replaced it with 18%. (third slip, this is turning into a bad day..)
At some point, my ears told me I was going back up (wtf?) must have been that I was pulling down the shot and some divers had got off the bottom of it. (PO2 drops on ascent... fourth slip...!! I decided "sod this it's home time" and blindly blew in some oxy. A short few seconds later I'd decided "no really, sod this", quite efficiently checked the valve on the bailout, purged the BOV and switched to it. (about the only sensible decision I'd made so far...)
I let go of the shot at this point and went up like a cork. I was dumping my wing with one hand and had just started faffing for the counterlung dump with the other and was already on the surface. I filled my wing, sorted my mask out and looked at my shearwater
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What the fook would that have been if I'd stayed on it for another minute breathing like a train finning down the shot and then surfaced without bailing out, or that blind squirt of oxy?
I got back on the boat and smoked fags and drank tea and had a good old think about that one.
Dive must have lasted all of about 3 minutes to go from fun to a cluster fuck.
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