Ravenna
Rookie
-Fear of drowning mixed in with claustrophobia makes the idea of scuba diving terrifying! Hearing his last breaths are very sad and very scary. 😢
-On April 28th, 2000 Israeli-Russian diving instructor Yuri Lipski, sank over 300 feet to while diving in the Blue Hole, off the coast of Egypt in the Red Sea. When his body was retrieved, it was discovered that Yuri was wearing a helmet camera and had recorded his final moments on tape...
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An explanation:
It’s called Nitrogen narcosis. He dove without monitoring his ascension rate, meaning he had no idea how fast he was going down, aside from feeling increasing pressure on his ear drums. He also had no vision at all, meaning he simply had no clue in what direction he was going, if at all. For non-divers: the lower you go, the less time you have before you absorb too much nitrogen, which causes you to enter a drunken and even narcotic state. for reference: if you stay at 18m depth you can stay for at least half an hour, whereas at 40m you can't stay longer than a few minutes before it gets at dangerous levels. Also: at 90m the oxygen becomes toxic, due to the pressure. You breathe in so many oxygen particles in one breath at that pressure, you actually need to mix in various other gasses to counter it. So Yuri literally got more drunk-like as he went down, which probably made him not monitor his descent in the first place, on top of the fact that he was busy filming. in short: he was increasingly drunk-like and very distracted. Then he hit the 90m mark at the solid plateau: considering no diving school teaches anything past 40m (44 if rescue diving), imagine that he simply panicked. He knew this was it for him. When you're at 90m, your buoyancy is so low (b/c the pressure is so high) that unless you have an extremely floatable balloon or vest, you can't get up. You'd be exhausted before even getting halfway up. On top of that, he has equipment weighing him down: tanks, camera, extra batteries, etc. So in short: he went down, and had no idea how fucked he was until it was too late.
-On April 28th, 2000 Israeli-Russian diving instructor Yuri Lipski, sank over 300 feet to while diving in the Blue Hole, off the coast of Egypt in the Red Sea. When his body was retrieved, it was discovered that Yuri was wearing a helmet camera and had recorded his final moments on tape...
-Commented by a YouTube Viewer-
An explanation:
It’s called Nitrogen narcosis. He dove without monitoring his ascension rate, meaning he had no idea how fast he was going down, aside from feeling increasing pressure on his ear drums. He also had no vision at all, meaning he simply had no clue in what direction he was going, if at all. For non-divers: the lower you go, the less time you have before you absorb too much nitrogen, which causes you to enter a drunken and even narcotic state. for reference: if you stay at 18m depth you can stay for at least half an hour, whereas at 40m you can't stay longer than a few minutes before it gets at dangerous levels. Also: at 90m the oxygen becomes toxic, due to the pressure. You breathe in so many oxygen particles in one breath at that pressure, you actually need to mix in various other gasses to counter it. So Yuri literally got more drunk-like as he went down, which probably made him not monitor his descent in the first place, on top of the fact that he was busy filming. in short: he was increasingly drunk-like and very distracted. Then he hit the 90m mark at the solid plateau: considering no diving school teaches anything past 40m (44 if rescue diving), imagine that he simply panicked. He knew this was it for him. When you're at 90m, your buoyancy is so low (b/c the pressure is so high) that unless you have an extremely floatable balloon or vest, you can't get up. You'd be exhausted before even getting halfway up. On top of that, he has equipment weighing him down: tanks, camera, extra batteries, etc. So in short: he went down, and had no idea how fucked he was until it was too late.
