Divers React to Tec diver's near death experience caught on video
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Steve Luchon is a tec diver and ran into an issue deep underwater that could've ended up pretty badly. He recorded the whole dive, and we are here to analyze what happened.
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Somehow i imagine Woody has a walk-in closet just for all his headwear.
Woody (2022) - "Maybe"
And just like the government, he will neither confirm nor deny that.
Woody’s hats bring a lil ray of sunshine to my day ‘thank you’ 🤗
With shelves and shelves of manikin heads to display them properly.
🤣
I love the fact you guys just bring in the person that's involved to ask them what happened. *So* much better than having to just guess at what happened.
I love the humility of "I messed up, but here's what I learned."
never EVER be embarrassed about sharing this kind of videos! this is how we learn and improve. this content benefits the entire diving community!
if we only ever post smooth dives, perfect trim, nothing wrong, then we won't get better.
glad you made it to the surface and thank you so much for sharing!
100% my dude. Agreed.
That's 100% right. My best mistakes are the ones that I learned a valuable lesson from
Mad respect to anyone willing to put their mistakes out there, talk through them & share what they've learnt. Great vid as always
Hey Gus, Woody: I am an advanced open water and rescue diver with between 40 and 50 dives. I had a really scary moment with some new medication I was prescribed. We were only at 20 ft doing a quarry dive in Missouri. It was a gear check dive where we were testing all of the gear, reconfiguring, making ourselves familiar and comfortable with where things were, and improving the layout. When we came to the surface I got really lightheaded and almost passed out at the surface. I have not dived since. I was really scared that I did not know what my medication could do to me underwater. I have since changed medications for other reasons but I am still scared to get in the water. Could you guys do something on the topic of medication and diving so maybe I could have some guidance on how to test myself safely and actually get back into the water? These sorts of incidents really disturb me and I agree with you, never solo dive.
@S. Clarke while i agree that he should consult his on doctor regarding this, its not a bad topic of conversation that they could have with the amazing Dr.Doug Ebersol? (i might be misspelling his last name) how medications and stuff affect us while diving
Medical advice on UA-cam is a Pandora's Box of trouble. It's very hard, even for experienced professionals, to cover all possible cases and outcomes in a short amount of time. You don't want someone getting a super-wrong idea out of well-meant advice.
@@idiotisterecords touché, sir.
It would be great if you could share the specific medication you have concerns about. I would like to look into this as a diver and MD. Thanks kindly.
Thanks for sharing your story, John. I hope you can get sorted soon and get back to your best. Any lessons we can learn that dont result in fatalities, are a blessing.
This is the best interview you've ever done. And I have major respect for Steve with his willingness to share his ordeal so we can all learn from it. I'd dive with that guy any day! You guys too....lol
Exactly. Everyone makes mistakes and it is super important to actually acknowledge what went wrll and what went wrong and how to improve.
Some people would be like: damn regulator piece of sht, luckily I was so amazing that I managed to get to the surface.
This is "Murphy's Law" & "Fight or Flight" all in one. Glad you made it back Safe Steve, Sharing your story just makes others better and more aware we all learn by Example.
I watched this video right after Steve posted. It shook me back to reality about buddy checks and practicing skills. We do it, but not often. And they change their gear configurations pretty often too. I dive this quarry a lot and it is very, very cold at depth - 37 degrees at 100 + feet on one of my coldest dives, and in a wetsuit to boot. In over two years of diving there, I have yet to have a free-flow, but man, do I think about it a lot. I commented and thanked Steve on his original post - so glad he is okay and that he shared. This helps save lives. This quarry also posts several huge signs stating “Your regulator will free-flow past 60 feet! Do not dive beyond your certification level!” One of my buddies did free-flow there at 100 feet and also semi-panicked and shot to the surface. Definitely a reality in water at those low temps.
So glad he’s okay, and willing to post and talk about it. Good on him! A lot (most) buddy teams never practice OOA/ donate procedures randomly during dives. This is great practice to do once in a while. You get to identify potential problem points (ie air turned off on donation bottle) before a real emergency. Once panic sets in it doesn’t matter how experienced you are. Panic by definition is uncontrolled. So glad he’s okay
His admission and telling of true panic serves bar beyond the diving community. Thank you, Sir.
This is so good! I'm in the medical field, and the issue of owning, discussing, and learning from errors resonates with me very deeply. I respect all of you so much and I'm grateful for what I have learned watching your channel. Your leadership in normalizing the discussion and analysis of errors in the sport you love is a legacy to be proud of; you are helping to set the stage to save lives.
This is a beautifully written comment. Thank you for summarizing your feelings so well as your conclusions are spot on. ✌️🍍
“Donde?” Asks Woody thinking people will think he knows how to speak Spanish but in reality he knows like 10 words.
I think he was trying to break Gus in the 1st minute of a video.
Fear is a crazy thing. It makes the very best of us panic on occasion. Not faulting this young man at all. He lived to see another day and that's what matters
Mad props to Steve for sharing his story. As a licensed clinical social worker and someone who just this year had a life threatening water experience (not while diving, but rather while kayaking in Hawaii), I completely understand, appreciate, and approve of the measures you took to reduce your PTSD symptoms from your experience. As a newer diver, I appreciate these videos because I know the power of water and it helps me to feel more equipped. I completely agree with Gus about panic shutting down the brain so the more we can learn and practice, the better off we will be should the time come to deal with an emergency underwater. Thank you again!
What a humble guy. It seems like he has learned a lot about himself after this incident. Wish him the best!
Have a good day Woody and Gus!
The best days are when I wake up to a new video! Thank you!
Lol! OMG you’ve given me yet ANOTHER new all-time favorite Dive Talk video. What a wonderful, constructive and enlightening analysis you guys and the subject conducted of his near-tragic panic attack. Supreme kudos to the three of you for an incredibly humbly educational session. This, folks, is how the very best of the best help build better divers and save lives. Simply 👏 👏 awesome.
The only mistake is to not learn from our mistakes. You’re also teaching many divers a lesson. Dont be embarrassed of the video 🙏
I'm not sure why but I found this video to be really great! I love the recognition of fallibility. It's very important for growth to experience humility and learn from a mistake! Good discussion guys!!♥️
I just love how honest you guys are! If I was crazy enough to take up diving, I would definitely trust your advice over those “elite” divers that never admit any past mistakes.
I’ve been watching you guys for a while and finally subscribed. I don’t think I’ll ever have the desire to do cave or tec diving, but I learn a great deal from you both and have an immense amount of respect for how your videos and commentary are always respectful, educational, are not ego-driven. Your guest’s willingness to share his experience normalizes the fact that we are always learning and are most at risk when we forget that. Kudos to you all.
This reminds me of the community in one of my hobbies of woodworking. Plenty of dangerous machines where, if something goes wrong or you make a stupid mistake, in a fraction of a second your friends may either be calling you stumpy for the rest of your life or really could be at a funeral. One of the things I always watch regularly and thank people for is sharing their mistakes, accidents, near misses or real injuries but their videos always get such flak and abuse from people for the "stupid" thing they did or whatever it is! This is terrible behaviour as we all can be tired, in a rush, have a lapse of judgement. Respect people for sharing their mistakes, all those apparently perfect or experienced people should be very careful, maybe more than most.
This os an excellent video for highlighting the dangers of last minute setup changes. The muscle memory kicks in, so even something like a longer necklace can seriously mess with your day, like in this situation.
Love his transparency. So much better than arrogance. Will be helpful to a lot of other divers.
Staying calm really is everything! glad you are safe! This is how we learn to do things differently! Thank you for sharing.
It’s very humble to put this online and speaking about yr mistakes that happend.
Simple things could have prevented this. Lessons learned. And when panic kicks in yr gone, I’ve learned it also the hard way, thnx for sharing
@Woody: they still train doing an emergency ascent blowing bubbles from 30m or 100ft.
And although I don’t agree with this thing it works. 3rd dive on my ccr I had a small issue that collided and bolted from 35m to the surface in like a few seconds. Only thing on my mind was keep blowing, keep blowing.
These lessons definitely should be shared. Thanks for everyone on screen being as humble as they are.
I think the diver you guys interviewed I think he’s going places! It’s been awhile since I seen a diver after making a life threatening mistake take responsibility. He didn’t beat around the bush lol. He just plainly said I screwed up, and this is what happened and this is what I learned.
Dive talk your the best!
Thanks for sharing. Those lessons learned and talked about can be applied to so much in life.
I couldn't help but chuckle about the mention of seeing your buddy's face as the last thing you'll see before you die. I'd bet that exact thought is more common than anyone would want to admit.
Wow, I have so much respect for you both and for Steve and by sharing his experience will most likely save lives.
That's really interesting. I learned that it's important to understand how tiny changes can completely screw you up in a scary situation.
This was a great video. Really amazing to hear from the diver about how all your training can go out the window once you aren't used to your equipment and you start panicking. Which is completely understandable to me as a non-diver. I think no one really knows until they've been there, not being able to breathe. His reaction to his mistake and experience was comendable
What a nice, genuine, and humble guest. Also he's really cool because he seems to be using the same office chair as me! Hehe.
When panic sets in the mind shuts off I’ve been there. One time my full face mask got flooded with water and I started choking on water and couldn’t think. I was only 20 ft deep just started the dive and I bolted to the surface from 20 ft. Luckily I was ok but when thinking back at the incident I should have taken off the full face mask and switched to alternate air source and mask. I did try to purge the water out but it didn’t work. Anyway kudos to this tec diver owning up to his mistake and I’m glad he’s ok.
Thank you we learn from these mistakes and one day can be live saving. Sharing this takes good heart ty
Someone needs to get Woody a pair of wired earbud style headphones so the man can comfortably wear his hats!!
Great video. It shows that no matter your experience in diving, some situations can make you "bug" and do stupid things. Humbling as always if you survive it. I've had a surprise lately, whilst diving with my regular 4 year-old sidemount setup that I never changed nor tuned during that time: I somewhat managed to twist the neck bungee while donning and only realised it during reg switch at 42 meters. No panic involved, but I felt very sloppy at the time...
This was a great post. Learning is the KEY! Glad he learned from this mistake and will Live to dive again.
I just started my dive master course with PADI at 15 and I have watched you since even before OW cert and you guys kickstarted my interest in diving. Thank you!
Any advice for the course?
Obsess over what would make divers experience even better. The people you are DMing for. What would make their day or their dive even better.
Good video, glad,Steve is ok. I think this is great to learn from.
enjoy this a lot. glad he's okay and able to speak openly about it. safe diving everyone
The greatest lessons always come from our failures, the problem is sometimes you die.... This guy got his chance to correct that and seems like he will have from the way he talks, alot of people don't
You guys are a perfect together! I don’t dive and never would but,I like learning about it from you. Love the scary/close call reaction videos! ❤🤿🤿
@Steve Luchon thanks for sharing, your shared experience gives us all an opportunity to get better.
Thanks for sharing Steve!
You guys should start filming all your dives I would love to see the all the caves you guys go to and what they look like.
As they say you only learn by your mistakes and think this is awesome that this guy can own his own mistakes to teach others 👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ excellent guys xxxx lots on love for over the pond xxxx
that Konica Minolta behind Steve.....so much trauma. never work in an office.
This is one of those videos where I go and do all the emergency drills once every 6 months :)
My first dive Instructor on my open water diver course told me he had to do an emergency ascend from 40 meters because he went out of air and his buddy wasnt there.
Fantastic discussion
Very well spoken by this guy and humble. Bravo to him
Its great to see that Steve didn't make excused.
He was honest and that, in our circles is a rare thing.
Mostly because lots of tec divers think they are infallible.
I had some great close calls myself.
Anyway great show.
I am a good (was) friend of Agnes.
Regards
Jurgen
My husband and I decided we want to learn to dive and I definitely want our teachers to be Woody n Gus 😂
The problem with Panic is that we can only simulate it during training. During confined water training, we added unprepared stress situations to our advanced curricula, turning a students air off to make him / her feel what it actually feels like to lose Air. We also added an exercise called Doffing & Donning where a Student needed to take all equipment (except weights) off, leave it at the bottom of the pool, ascend & then descend and put the rig back again. The above stress exercises were however frowned upon and deemed to dangerous due to the risk of barotraumas. Did we make our training better or worse by eliminating the stress exercises? I certainly appreciated the stress training when I had my diving incident.
nothing like your buddy handing you a reg with a closed valve, I tried to follow along and do a CESA from 112 and made it but it was hard, dont know how that would have panned out in real life, having the depth gauge and someone speaking to concentrate on helped
You guys have the best channels on UA-cam.
I agree with you 100% about the need for a thorough buddy check (which would have solved both problems this guy encountered) before every dive. But not so much about the need for a buddy on every dive. I've had many successful solo dives (in open water and not in caves or wrecks) and always felt perfectly safe having taken a few basic precautions: 1. A 3L pony with its own first/second stage (and with the air turned on!). 2. SMB 3. Inflatable buoy in my pocket for when boats run over my SMB. 4. Compressed air whistle for when the pick-up boat can't see my buoy. 5. A pack of pencil flares in my other pocket for when the pick-up boat can't hear my whistle. 6. A good knife for entanglements. 7. Pack of sandwiches for the deco/safety stop. Now you're your own buddy so do that buddy check on yourself; focus and do it thoroughly. Not twice or three times, but once and properly. I have to say that I think the buddy system for open-water dives is highly over-rated and can also lead to complacency, as was the case in this example. Having said all of that I'm very glad the guy made it back safely and that he learned a couple of valuable lessons along the way. Plus my full respect to him for "owning up".
These situations seem to justify the pool drills you see these soldiers doing. Whete their hands are tied and made to keep themselves alive. From just pressing off of the bottom to being assaulted by other officers having their gear stripped while under. Keep em coming guys!
Good show guys! (I could relate this “experienced panic” to law enforcement, but I’ll spare you) Enjoyed it!
great guest - thank you for sharing!
Man, have any Divers tried contacting companies like iT2 that are working on things like the Molar Microphone? Surely waterproof, tooth contact vibration radio communication would save so many lives underwater? Love the videos guys, very informative
This is tech that is already available? Sounds interesting. I'll have to look into that.
Brilliant Video ,with fantastic explanations throughout. The tec diver was honest & admitted he panicked rather than be like in denial & didn't admit his preparation methods that affected what happened. I admire his recognition on his faults & got back in the water . Then it happened again although he remembered from the previous time when he panicked , that this time he didn't panic & did everything he needed too . It's like anything we do wrong, we learn from it & gain a better understanding. Fantastic video , thank you 😊. Love your hat Woody 💙 , Gus , what's your taste in " Hats " ? If any ?💙 .
If the day comes I decide to get dive certified I WILL BE CONTACTING DIVE TALK
I do enjoy seeing videos of people messing up so I learn how these issues happen and what I can do to prevent them.
Excellent video! Thanks 4 sharing!
I've been diving once and my reg popped out when I shouted at a cool fish to my dad. just grabbed it and put it in my mouth, blew out like it was a snorkel and carried on
Great interview
My whole first year of diving was Puget Sound in a rented wet suit,an ancient used BC and regulator.
might be an idea to change the procedure :
when someone needs air, 1st give him ur regulator, meanwhile use your octopus and verify it works properly, then if it does swap.
20 to 25 years ago when i got my level 1, we had no octopus as students only the instructor had multiple regulators fixed on his tank (it was in France).
And the procedure we learned when your binome runs out of air was simply to breath turn to turn on the same regulator, it was safer in a way.
Thank you for sharing this very valuable lesson with us all!
They you for sharing….it is not easy to admit mistakes. This could save a life
Woody has the best hats! thank you for sharing videos like this one so we can learn
Woody " Never solo dive.."
Me " Except Ed Sorenson" 😂😂
Most of my diving in U.K. was in quarries and in the summer was pretty similar temperatures with 12 to 14 degrees C on the surface and dropping to 5 degrees at depth. The change in temperature used to cause SO many free flows if the regs weren’t turned right down. We used to practice valve shut offs at the end of every dive during our deco stops (might as well use the time for something worth while).
I get the feeling of PTSD after an incident and having to get back in or risk never getting in again. After an incident I had, my husband persuaded me to get back in the next day lol. I don’t think I’d ever have gotten back in if I had left it any longer. All U.K. dives after that were fresh water and I’m scared of swimming in the sea
Great conversation, as always.
Crazy , love all your vids guys keep up the great work
Absolutely love it when you have surprise guests 🤠
great training video. You can carry a back up of everything except the most important piece of equipment your brain. Never dive alone
Bring back the Octopus hats!
Guys need to react to missing soccer team found alive in a cave in Thailand after 10 days!! Its an incredible amazing breath taking rescue video I'm sure you guys would love to show here on the channel ♡♡♡♡
Ccr bailout bottle should always be in the open position regardless if you think you will need it if not.
Thanks for another great show on the mistakes, as I said before it's a great way to learn. Also it's one of my favorite interview questions, what's the biggest mistake you made and how did your fix it.
Old climber talk but Self rescue is the best rescue
Yay new Dive Talk!
I tried to concentrate…but I couldn’t get passed the temperature. I literally got colder sitting here. I’ll take sharks and warm water. 🥶🥶🥶
WE DONT EVEN KNOW WHATS ON OUR OWN EARTH, especially under water yet all this money is being spent finding out about MARS>????? WHAT ABOUT EARTH
I would never Solo dive. The risk just does not match the reward. But when Instructors take brand new openwater Divers on their first Openwater dive, I still think the risks for that Instructor are similar to a Solo dive in many ways when you are diving with people relying on the Instructor completely and not the other way round. Self Rescue and continuous self rescue practice is in my opinion the most important part of diving in both Tech and Recreational.
Thanks for my notification UA-cam. You know I watch these guys!! Why didn’t you let me know??
mad respect for the man
Have you guys ever thought about bowling! Less dangerous, lots of air! No risk of dying! And still challenging?
Would a buddy check have helped to check if the buddies regulator had air turned on?
I believe so.
Love your knowledge
Backmount is tuff even if you have good training I am glad he live
Woody looks like a Miami mob boss
Doesn't matter how good you are in any area. When it's a potential life threatening situation, panick is always possible and it's never good to be alone. Panic can also be contagious...If I was a diver, I would get my butt to swimming pool and practice the scenarios where stuff goes wrong. Gameplan as much as you can..Think about what would be a bad situation to be in and try to figure it out.
I subscribed Steve coz u so humble!!!
thank btw
What kinds of certifications exist for divers?
What are the prerequisites for them?
Haha, I recommended him you guys review his video and you are doing that !
Great hat Woody!
these videos save lives