Expert Explains Deadly Risks After Maldives Cave Diving Tragedy

play stupid games win stupid prizes. we all go the same place after death anyways and its chill

I bet it's not only me that thinks an expert isn't required to explain the dangers....

Recklessness is not a tragedy

Feel for the families left behind, re all those who died; unbelievable f..k up!

and if Finnish rescuers couldn't easily obtain gas mixtures, then how could the Italians..? "– For diving over 60 meters, special gas mixtures are needed that prevent the development of swimming narcosis. It was really difficult to find them in the Maldives," Sami told a Finnish news agency.

Dive af 200 ft with compreseh air is suicidal

The “Dive Plan” for this dive is so egregious it appears as if none of the 5 have ANY real experience. The claim is at least a few of them were experienced. The “Suicide Plan” is so egregious if each certification agency does not do an internal investigation into the instructors who certified these divers and have the specific conversation on dive planning this would be a liability for those agencies PADI, NAUI, IANTD who ever certified them needs to show they went over dive planning. That is how bad this is. No one in their right mind would agree to this “Dive plan” if they have any real experience.

Complete amateurs. RIP

You don't need to go cave diving to sample corals. That woman "researcher" perhaps had permission to obtain corals, but they certainly would not have authorized her to do so in a cave.

The Rapture of the Deep

Imagine just before dying being the mother and realizing you put your daughter in that situation .. 🙏 heartbreaking

Cave diving up there as dumbest hobby next to climbing Mt. Everest and Base Jumping

I've never dived a day in my life but even I know better than to dive in a cave.

I believe the mother did this purposely because she had hit the wall and didn't want her daughter to enjoy her life.... Mothers can be the biggest haters of their daughters.... So SAD, where was the father because I would have said HELL NAH, my daughter ain't doing that sheit.... Not until she was older or more experienced, period....

It's not a tragedy. It's a message. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

I am a TDI Divemaster and TDI Extended Range technical diver. Diving to 50–60 m on air with a single 12 L tank is already extremely reckless even in open water, let alone inside a cave. At 55 m, a diver using a single 12 L tank would have a maximum bottom time of only around eight minutes if they still wanted to reach the surface safely. Even then, they would still face a minimum of 35–40 minutes of decompression obligations during ascent, and whether their gas supply would even last that long would depend on everything going perfectly, with absolutely no margin for error. With that kind of decompression obligation, every additional minute spent at depth would drastically increase their risk of severe decompression sickness, as they simply would not have had enough gas in a single cylinder to complete the required decompression procedures safely. On top of an already extremely badly planned dive — which already violated fundamental diving rules and procedures by attempting such a depth with only a single tank of air — they then decided to penetrate an unknown cave without a properly placed guideline for safe entry and exit. In a cave environment, a single wrong fin kick can stir up bottom silt and reduce visibility to near zero within seconds. At that point, without a guideline, finding the exit again can become nearly impossible even for highly trained cave divers. That decision sealed their fate. It’s was pure suicide.

I am utterly exhausted hearing about a “Cave Diving Accident” This was suicide by stupidity. 1) They broke the local law. 100ft max depth is shallow for some deep for others. Where they entered the cave at 170-180ft egregious NEVER should have been there. Just to be at this depth for tens seconds is a serious dive not to take casually. This alone could have killed them but many are successfully stupid and complete a risky dive. 2) was this just another dive with egregious violations on depth? Habitually breaking the 100ft/No Deco local law limit? 3) having arrived at a perilous 180ft they then decide to stack risk factors on top on the depth by entering an overhead environment. 4) Not only did they enter an overhead environment they decide to stack additional risk on top by going beyond light caving called cavern diving where ambient light from the surface is still visible inside the cave, to FULL CAVE NO LIGHT AVAILABLE UNLESS FROM ONE OF YOUR FLASHLIGHTS. You need THREE light sources at all times. 5) did they have 3 flashlights each? 6) did they each have a cave line/reel? Did The lead Diver USE thier cave reel as required? 7) were they diving something other than air? If not most of them were NARCed possibly to the point they were even goofy. Look up Nitrogen Narcosis there are some funny videos of people being goofy because they are narced. It’s a little like being drunk. Can be VERY DANGEROUS. At the depth these morons were at they were drunk as fuck unless they have a lot of tolerance built up and experiencing not just dealing with it but even being able to recognize that you are narc and need to focus hard on whatever task is at hand. 7) what breathing setup did they use. If the dive plan was to dive a single tank, any mix appropriate for the depth, with the depth and overhead conditions this is always a very risky dive. This is a risky dive perfectly planned. 8) the number one way i know these people committed diving suicide they entered an overhead environment with a fucking gaggle of divers. The only way i would enter a cave as more than a group of two would require two conditions. 1) There would have to be a need than cannot be achieved any other way and the task is of such critical nature it is worth risking my life to do so. 2) I would have to have know each member an have completed cave dives without issue or negligence with them before as a buddy pair. This group of divers did not have an accident. They committed a series of not just mistakes, but blunders, they committed a never event. This was suicide by stupidity. The ultimate FAFO

Why do this stupid activity. Let fish handle these caves. So foolish.

For my money there should be guide ropes installed similar to what they have in Antarctica. But I still wouldn't do it.

Very🤿hazardous sport Even dive instructors and experts in this field perish from unpredictability and danger involved