Northwest Dive Club

"A scuba diver found herself in danger last week when another diver rushed towards her ripping out her air supply 50 feet underwater off Hawaii’s Kona coast."

http://globalnews.ca/news/1327349/watch ... ona-coast/

Holy shnikey!

Wow.

Good argument for a bungled secondary and a dive knife, there.

Somebody needs a course in underwater combat

Woah.

It looks as though the diver pulled the person's second stage out of her mouth. Would that be a major issue for anyone here? I'd just pop my backup in my mouth and wonder what the hell had just happened.

LCF wrote:It looks as though the diver pulled the person's second stage out of her mouth. Would that be a major issue for anyone here? I'd just pop my backup in my mouth and wonder what the hell had just happened.

The article isn't very well written, but I think they're trying to say that diver A ripped diver B's second stage out of her mouth, not because diver A needed a breath, but as an act of assault.....perhaps because he was poaching? Or something?

... somebody's been watching old Sea Hunt reruns ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Saw this on the news. They said the victim was taking pictures of reef damage/destruction, at about 40 fsw, and that apparently the person did not want their picture taken. There was a bit of video, but it was far enough away you couldn't tell clearly what was going on.


Jim

Joshua Smith wrote:

LCF wrote:It looks as though the diver pulled the person's second stage out of her mouth. Would that be a major issue for anyone here? I'd just pop my backup in my mouth and wonder what the hell had just happened.

The article isn't very well written, but I think they're trying to say that diver A ripped diver B's second stage out of her mouth, not because diver A needed a breath, but as an act of assault.....perhaps because he was poaching? Or something?

There's a lot of friction between legal tropical fish collecting and conservationists in that area.

whats sketchy on this is the initial cover story was a reef watcher filming, and now we find that they werent documenting reef stuff, but actually documenting reef fish catchers,with multiple people filming, etc.

I'm not saying I agree with wild catching tropical fish, but it wasnt some sort of reef documentation project either.

Sea Shepard is really making the most of the incident. I disagree with Sea Shepard when they call this attempted murder. Looks more like a 'Leave me the he** alone', assualt.

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-med ... cking-1585

Grateful Diver wrote:... somebody's been watching old Sea Hunt reruns ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Just for you Bob.... The knife fight starts at 20:00....

... it always does ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

sitkadiver wrote:Sea Shepard is really making the most of the incident. I disagree with Sea Shepard when they call this attempted murder. Looks more like a 'Leave me the he** alone', assualt.

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-med ... cking-1585

It was a poor choice of getting a point across. The diver could have just chucked her mask instead... They did provoke the incident with multiple film crews all filming the guys. Something was bound to happen, and they got the result they were hoping for. Something they could capitalize on...

one thing for sure She had quite the bite going on that regulator. Took the bite pads right off. I agree it should not have been a issue for a experienced diver but now days it really could have been a problem with some of the certified divers. I am sure you all would agree with me that no one has the right to touch another like that. If he did not like her filming I am curios why he did not just go for the camera

YES, I agree. I know all of you would have been fine. But this would have freaked me out a litle. I will be honest. And if it was my daughter it would have scared her into not going diving again. I haven't even made an attempt to show it to her. I hope she doesn't see it.

i would have swam after the dude and turned of his air, or cut his air line ...LOL then i would have pulled up the anchor and they would be stuck with out a boat...

Scary situation for sure. My gut reaction too would be "he wouldn't have made it that close"... but if you think about ACTUALLY being in that situation, it would be a different story I think than how any of us would think we'd react. Some would have fought it more before they got that close, others similar to how she reacted. But I'm not sure I'd want to swim in for an underwater fight that could result in your own death after recovering from someone coming at you, right?

You'd have to assume the guy would be just as willing to take it a step further if you actually engaged with him and tried to retaliate... i dunno. You'd like to think that if you had a knife pulled by the time he was swimming at you, that he would think twice before reachin' for your reg...

also - not defending the Sea Shepard people in any way. watching a single episode of whale wars pretty much makes me question the rest of the story here that maybe wasn't caught on video.... I tend to agree this was likely a desired response from the team filming - doesn't excuse his actions in any way though.

thefeve wrote: it would be a different story I think than how any of us would think we'd react.

I know how I'd react, on the trigger waving goodbye over my shoulder.

Wow I cant believe that what a schmuck for doing that if I had been in the women's place I would have gotten on there boat and waited to kick his butt across the boat 3 or 4 times