Few friends died from shallow water blackout most likely. They were freedive spearfishing alone. They found my one friend after he never came back in. He was on the bottom off a drop off ledge at around 80-90 feet. He was a world class champion and very experienced. His name was Gene Higa. So sad. I used to do it alone all the time, but I was very careful not to push my limits of depth and bottom time. Still it's just too dangerous so I don't do it alone anymore. I was born and raised in Hawaii and I've been surfing and scuba and freedive spearfishing and fishing my whole life in the Islands. The worst is the stories of guys that had shallow water blackout at around 20 ft coming back up, but then were a little too farfrom the buddies he was diving with, and he sank back to the bottom unconscious to around 90 ft. His buddies were not capable of diving that deep and so they couldn't go down and get him back up to the surface and he drowned. It's so important to talk about all these things and dive with a buddie, and practice one diver up while the other goes down and just do it as safely as possible. I've had to quickly dive down and retrieve guys from the bottom before and it's difficult bringing them back up to the surface from a good depth!! Then have to revive them to breathing again. It's really heavy. I got extremely good at freediving and the guys on the US freedive team used to come to Kona to train because it's great conditions for it there, and I went with them and took my boat out to help and started seeing how deep I could go. I got to where I was able to go really deep, and they wanred me to join the team and compete! I just decided it was too dangerous and wasn't really interested in doing that. It's just incredible how deep some people are freediving now!!! It just made me uncomfortable! Even when doing it with the safety divers down the drip line with scuba and all, it just made me uncomfortable as I was going so deep and I am happy just doing it to like 100 ft and less for spearfishing. Going deeper than 200 ft is just too much for what I liked doing. The squeeze on your body and lungs and how it's a bit darker down that deep is so radical, and it takes a long time to swim back up which is really crazy!!! Amazing what we can teach our bodies to do freediving though!!!! Aloha from beautiful Hawaii D.L.

@malaysianvvip9581

4 ай бұрын

Goosebumps. Feel sorry for your friend. Always be cautions and don’t play with Mother Nature.

@user-ps3rb9yc8x

4 ай бұрын

@malaysianvvip9581 yeah with freedive spearfishing in particular, you really need to know and understand your capability limits. Then I encourage people to think about potential dangerous situations they could find themselves in and to consider that making a hasty or wrong decision could get you in serious trouble or worse! You must have discipline to know when it's just not a good time to pull the trigger and spearfishing a big and powerful fish especially!!! If you drop down to a relatively deep depth, say 60-100 ft., and then you see a big strong fish, you need to wait for that perfect shot placement, obviously a Stine shot is most desirable on a big fish but it takes a lot of experience to do. If you get too excited when you see a big strong fish and you've been down for awhile or your pretty deep, you could get a poor shot and get wrapped up in the line by a very strong fish with could prevent you from making it back to the surface!! Unless you're quick and always have a good sharp dive knife on you to cut yourself free and swim to the surface you could be in serious trouble!! Sometimes, with big fish it's quite often, you need to have the discipline to choose not to take the shot. Inexperienced divers often don't even consider how dangerous it could be!!! So again preparation and previsualizing potential dangerous diving scenarios ahead of time regularly while with friends not diving and discussing what to do to be safe is of extreme importance!!!! I've been doing it in the Hawaiian islands most of my life for over 40 years and I have several world class freedive spearfiherman friends and over the years we share our experience and discuss how to avoid getting in trouble, hurt or worse. It's a very rewarding sport and incredible form of exercise! Freedivers are some of the most fit athletes in the world!!! Also, I love to eat fish, certain species in particular so when I see one e of my favorite eating ones I'm actually getting hungry thinking how good it's going to be for a meal!!! It gets me really excited and when I catch the really good eating ones it's really satisfying as many of these fish you can't buy at the market or hook on a line. It's only spearfishing that allows you to catch them so it's a special treat and I love to share what I catch wit others so they can experience such delicacies!!!! Dive safe. The ocean is amaz6and full of beautiful colorful fish! D.L.

@kaspareevald2264

4 ай бұрын

Safety is always number one, I'm sad to hear the loss of your friends man. Take care, dive safe.

Awesome training with great folks. Will save your life

wow, that was scary enough and that's just training - free divers (especially rescue divers) are super heros!

@user-ps3rb9yc8x

4 ай бұрын

Rescue divers do such an important job that not too many people would want to do. They're courageous well trained heroes I agree!

Can you explain why you hold their nose?

So here's a quick question - wouldn't it make sense to drop weights to bring person up quicker as on freediving you don't have same fast ascent risks as with scuba gear. Maybe even have inflatable floaters for ascent? (of course on practice you don't want to be dropping weights on every exercise)

@kaspareevald2264

4 ай бұрын

Yes indeed, that’s a well highlighted question and in real situation it may be the step we need to do, in order to ascent much faster with diver in trouble. That’s also why wearing weight belt in proper position is important, so we can quick release it with one hand very easily in case of emergency.

@user-ps3rb9yc8x

4 ай бұрын

When freediving, On ascent If I had been at depths over 30 ft, or roughly one atmosphere, and I had a fairly long bottom time, when you are slowly pumping your legs with those extreme long blade fins on, you've used up a lot of the air in your lungs. Because your quads or thigh muscles are so big, they require a good supply of oxygenated blood pumping through them. As I'm going up, that requirement will actually start to cause my legs to begin tingling in my quads!!! What happens is your air in your lungs gets depleted even faster as your body tries to replenish that oxygen rich blood to your quads, which is quickly depleting the last remaining air in your lungs I try to avoid having too long of a bottom time to avoid this, but if I do feel it, I will pla e .y hand on my weight belt release and open it, but I just hold it and don't actually drop the belt and once I surface and breathe again, then I will close the release again. But, in case I did have shallow water blackout, my weight belt would just slip right of of me, so if I was out, it wouldn't cause me to sink back down, possibly to the bottom! It's just a safety precaution I take, but I try to avoid Staying down too long aand getting those leg tingles as it indicates that I'm pushing my limits which is very dangerous!! It's a good safety technique and I employed it a lot, especially when I used to go freedive spearfishing alone a lot!!! But I don't like to dive alone anymore!!!! Safety!!!

Outdated rescue grip. Very bad surface procedure. No neck support. This rescue could end bad with a really blacked out person. It would be a clear fail in one of my instructor courses or safety trainings.

@kaspareevald2264

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the comment. Explain your feeback in details please, specifically where does that “very bad” as rating come from? Also would you be specific in the statement which says that rescue would be a clear fail.