lost all my diving equipment

[code2d]

I was just coming back from diving in a 15 foot boat. I was slowly building my freediving equipment and did not have a bag for my gear or a wetsuit.
We were doing 20km hour and the boat simply turned upside down (180) and sunk within 2 seconds with me and 2 other people in the boat. The boat was upside down and sucked 2 lifejackets down a cellphone a ore and all my gear.
gara 3000 ld fins and my mask and my socks and my snorckel all in 110 feet of water. I have lost all my stuff....grrrrrrrrrrrr. good thing everyone is safe and people came to get us cosidering we were in the middle of the lake.

[vali]

i guess the gear can be found with some scuba-divers
i-m glad that you manage to write the above post
this is the most important....your life, not your gear

[code2d]

I am very happy I am safe. After all I can always get new gear. (beter gear)
I will have to buy a gear bag to protect my gear next time. I talked to some divers in the area. One will do it without charge but legaly he can only dive to 50 feet without a partner. I tried calling divers but they all want from $500-900 canadian. I will varify the deepth to see if it is 100 feet. Maybe the
information in wrong and he can go and get my stuff and the boat back.

[zebrafishle]

that is really bad luck man!but you are save and that is important. i keep my fingers crossed for you that the deep is wrong and you will find some of your things.

[atomichaggis]

Ouch! coulda been much worse tho.

[sanso]

Glad You're still around!
You'll just have to keep practising so You can salvage Your gear in apnea!
(Don't know, You might already be able to do that..)

[code2d]

Right now with the flippers I had I could go down 60 feet. (I am beginning freediving). The joke is that I could have a chance of geeting my flippers back with my flipers...........something doesn't add up........oww wait the flippers are on the bottom of the lake. Well that is the joke people are making.
Hopefully it isn't in 100 feet of water. If I do get my flippers back I am geeting a gear bag.

I asked people around and they have never heard of a boat flipping like that before with no waves and wind.

[harbour seal]

sounds totally crazy---you are lucky no one was hurt.

i have seen boats do weird things, such as capsize suddenly, when one or more of the following are present:

- motor is too big for the boat (e.g., lots of people put on beefy outboards, which are not rated for their boats)

- load distributed unequally or load suddenly shifts (e.g., all your lead may have been on one side of the boat)

- boat hits a submerged object, which can have radically different results depending upon the size and depth of the object. usually this will destroy only your prop if you are lucky.

- boat has taken on water, which drastically reduces it's buoyancy/balance. this can happen without anybody noticing such as when one of the buoyancy compartments in the hull has a hole and floods (possibly from rubbing against rocks whilst tied up) or when someone forgets to replace a drain plug.

it really depends upon the hull of the boat but the last one is my guess given your description of how quickly it sank. this one caused a boat i was riding in to capsize suddenly due to a flooded compartment in the hull.

glad to hear you survived.

cheers,
sean
vancouver, canada

[deep thinker]

Thats bad man, glad to hear your ok though. Maybe if you get your gear back you should get a bag that can float . Sounds like you need one.
I do find it funny that the boat just sank like that as most boats should have a foam filled or foam filled bottles in the hull.