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Did you ever have to rescue your buddy?
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tiredness
Hi,
actually, i had to help my buddy a couple of time. But it was not from BO but rather from exertion, because of bad cardio/health. Had to pull him to shore. Another kind of rescue i had to do is save someone from his/her fear, when their eyes grow big and they start overbreathing. I did the PADI Rescue diver course and it's really something i would recommend, even for freediver (There are other rescue course specific to freediving or from other scuba organisation that would be as good). A good rescue is not when you have to do CPR, but rather when you dont need to because you recognise the situation before the trouble start .
Hi,
actually, i had to help my buddy a couple of time. But it was not from BO but rather from exertion, because of bad cardio/health. Had to pull him to shore. Another kind of rescue i had to do is save someone from his/her fear, when their eyes grow big and they start overbreathing. I did the PADI Rescue diver course and it's really something i would recommend, even for freediver (There are other rescue course specific to freediving or from other scuba organisation that would be as good). A good rescue is not when you have to do CPR, but rather when you dont need to because you recognise the situation before the trouble start .
Erik’s SWBO
With your permission Erik
Jvoets;
Read the story that our college Erik posted in this forum 11th-September-2001 narrating his own SWBO he suffered in the Western Canada Regionals in Sept 2001. It is the best related story about this item.
For a direct access:
http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?threadid=16543&perpage=15&pagenumber=2
Thanks Erik again for sharing your experience.
Guss.
With your permission Erik
Jvoets;
Read the story that our college Erik posted in this forum 11th-September-2001 narrating his own SWBO he suffered in the Western Canada Regionals in Sept 2001. It is the best related story about this item.
For a direct access:
http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?threadid=16543&perpage=15&pagenumber=2
Thanks Erik again for sharing your experience.
Guss.
...Absolutely Guss, no problem!
By the way, I had to "rescue" my wife Neeka after a 24 metre dive she did in the Red Sea this summer....she does not really train for freediving, and this was her deepest dive ever. She did not BO, but I could see her face and contractions as she raced the last 10 metres to the surface. She was very out of breath and had panicked. All I had to do was hold her on her back and talk firmly to her for 30 seconds until she relaxed. No worries
Cheers,
Erik Y.
By the way, I had to "rescue" my wife Neeka after a 24 metre dive she did in the Red Sea this summer....she does not really train for freediving, and this was her deepest dive ever. She did not BO, but I could see her face and contractions as she raced the last 10 metres to the surface. She was very out of breath and had panicked. All I had to do was hold her on her back and talk firmly to her for 30 seconds until she relaxed. No worries
Cheers,
Erik Y.
During the period when I was training for competitions my static sessions sparked some interest amongst two of my spearing buddies and they decided to test their abilities .
Unaware of what was happening I went to the pool one afternoon for my training session and found them both simultaneously doing a static at the bottom of the 3 m. pool , with weightbelts on . Seconds after arriving one of them started sambaing . His buddy rushed him to the surface , but was so close to having a samba himself that he couldn't support him and both were in danger of sinking .
Fortunately they were close to the poolside and I could grab them , holding the still spasming diver until he recovered .
Unaware of what was happening I went to the pool one afternoon for my training session and found them both simultaneously doing a static at the bottom of the 3 m. pool , with weightbelts on . Seconds after arriving one of them started sambaing . His buddy rushed him to the surface , but was so close to having a samba himself that he couldn't support him and both were in danger of sinking .
Fortunately they were close to the poolside and I could grab them , holding the still spasming diver until he recovered .
