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Tech. Divers (BTW: This is the last posting from me on this tread) I'm getting the impression that most of you have not been in a underwater emergency yourselves. The only information you are trying to pass to me is what someone else told you, or your instructor told you. It's also very funny that all of you seem to have read a copy of the "Play by Play action Book of the PANIC DIVER" and know 100% percently how a panic diver is going to act. Some of you may even have a autographed copy of the book from some drowned diver. Get Real! The very first time you guys are in a real PANIC (I mean PANIC) life saving situation you'll all change your mine. The book gets tossed out the window. I think most of you need to get some first hand experience dealing with a real out of control panic divers. 1. Try dealing with one where you pass the regulator from your mouth. 2. Then, try dealing with one where you keep the regulator in your mouth. I'm talking about a real live out of control diver who comes to get air from you underwater in the dark, who hits you like a football player trying to get a football from you. Plus this diver really believes he is going to die! Then come back tell me what you think. Please remember my first post on this subject. I've done this, on several occasions, both ways. Plus I've never lost a diver who I have set out to rescue. NOTE: The biggest problem I have noticed is the out of air diver (OAD), seems to believe the regulator he has gotton doesn't work. After the rescue and talking to the diver. I ask why he/she continued to act so wildly after he/she got the backup regulator (from my mouth or chest area). In every case the diver, replied, "I felt like I could not get any air and I just wanted to get out of there." This is usually because the OAD personal regulator may have breathe differently. The reality is the OAD may simply be hyperventalating. You will need to get him/her to calm down to truely get control of the situation. Believe me guys I could give you a lot of "What if's" for taking a regulator out of your mouth underwater. Again, the real and only question: Is it safer to take a good working regulator out of your mouth or keep it in your mouth while underwater? For you folks who say: YES. Then why do you even put a regulator your mouth at all, since it's so unsafe. For you folks who say: NO. Now you thinking. Gary McGee Detroit, MI USA Great Lakes Wrecker PS. TO JimG. In one of your E-Mail notes you said I'm gambling with my life. That I agree. I realize I'm gambling with my life everytime I go diving. It's one of those "RISK" things.
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