Scuba Diving Depth Record Gone Wrong | The Guy Garman Disaster
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2024
- On August 15, 2015 fast rising diving star Guy "Doc Deep" Garman was attempting to break the diving depth world record during an attempted world-record dive of 1,200 feet off St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands when something went horrifyingly wrong. This is the story of how it went down.
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The constant swishing sound when you edit to the next picture gets really annoying.
10 min of swishing befor the storry starts makes it evin more annoying
I read this comment, and now it's comical to me. It's like being surveiled by batman with all the sound effects!
Didn't notice it until I read your comment, now, it's all I hear 😅😂
Sounds like someone added a fart box noise to each picture display
That’s a swoosh not a swish
Forward video 10 mins first 10 mins has nothing to do with garmen ffs
Thank you.. i hate the filler
The first part is very important as it puts things into context. Garman with 600 dives and 4 years of diving was trying to break a world record of a professional diver , instructor and of navy background who spend most of his adult life in diving and had more than 9000 dives at the time. I'm a scuba diver of 10 years and I remember this accident very well i couldn't comprehend how a novice diver of 4 years would dare to break a world record. These depth are the realm of the Gods of diving. May he rest in peace but it was all foolish daredevil attempt.
It’s another one of them AI generated disaster focused channels. Low quality.
They been popping up on CZcams like a cancer.
i wish i saw this comment earlier
As mentioned in other comments, the video contains a number of errors, which are compounded by other issues.
eg: It's impossible to "inadvertently" try to break a scuba record, inadvertently inherently means not trying. Similarly anyone accidentally approaching the record depth, or casually attempting it is unlikely, due to the requirements & risks to get anywhere near the record.
The AI narration, aside from feeling "off", also makes simple errors more common, as a fluent english speaker would be unlikely to say "the dive went on planned" (which was presumably from a typo) instead of "the dive went on as planned" At a minimum, asking someone else to check the video should also catch such things, along with many of the aforementioned errors.
The script also feels AI generated, whether it actually was or not, in part due to the large amount of marginally relevant information, such as the successful dive that makes up most of the video. There seems to be an increasingly common trend to make videos as long as possible, but inevitably this can make videos tedious &/or lack relevance.
It may get less views, as for some reason such videos always seem to end up with higher views, but I'd personally recommend taking a more natural approach:
-conventional research & script writing
-narrating it yourself or asking someone else to
-making the subject of the story the main part of the video, with superfluous elements removed.
-similarly give specific details on the subject (ie: what specifically went wrong), with less detail on less relevant aspects
-cut down on effects, particularly those that are used repetitively and without specific purpose such as rotating photos and the "woosh" sound
-use more (relevant)videos rather than almost entirely photos, it seems likely there are a number of videos related to the dives
-when photos are used, they could also be improved by being more closely tied to what is currently spoken about, rather than very general. eg: many photos just look like stock diving photos, rather than being specific to the effects of deep dive pressures for example, when talking specifically about that.
This comment officially wins for being the most helpful in this comment section. Huzzah! 🏆 🏆 🏆
SKIP to 13.22 for any sign of the actual story details. OMG this was so dramatically overembellised. Try REPORTING the event without this excessive hype.
Rationalizing away the Super Macho takes a lotta words. Leave no doubt unturned.
Another arrogant doctor dies doing something beyond his skill. They usually crash high performance planes or fly into storms, or as we see divers too deep. A man’s got to know his limits.
"In fact more people are set foot on the Moon.." Sure, Yeah in Hollywood studio under Stanley Kubrick, they could set their foot on Mars too.. Damn fakery..
So much false info here. First, St Croix is not in the Marshall Islands. The team was fine, warned him repeatedly. Had a solid dive plan reviewed by the industry. The reason why doc deep died, was that when his carabiner type attachment broke he should have called the dive. Instead, he made a loose knot around the rope which worked fine going down. He hit his depth, a camera was recovered that was on him that verified it. Early on the way back up the loose knot tightened around the rope and he couldn’t manage to untie it. He died trying to untie a knot. He was impaired and couldn’t think of cutting it with the tools he had on him. The camera captured everything. This video is trash.
In West L.A.-Brentwood-Malibu they use sports cars to kill themselves...... I've pulled a few from some nice but somewhat damaged and expensive cars.
Have to agree, and yes seems a number of Dr's of whatever push luck , whereas lesser educated seem to do well in these type of endeavours, as sad as this "oddly" portrayed story played out ....i thought it was Ahmed who was lost the focus on him most of the video post .
Done some diving , no hard deep stuff , just holiday diving and at home , great to do. It's all about remaining "calm" even at shallow depth, but if you good kit , buddy your okay ...
Carabiner broke? Was it one of those 2 dollar ones? Thought those were practically indestructible. @@xephramwatches7259
John Bennett was a very close friend and diving buddy. So sad how he was lost on a very simple dive in Korea. Most of us tekkies quit the deeper tech dives after that. Me including. Now I just grab a tank jump in from my boat and enjoy easy peasy diving.
Miss him dearly. RIP John
Dr Garman fought the ocean, and the ocean won.
Who couldn’t see that coming.
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That sound after every transition is really pissing me off
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I find it amazing the amount of willpower and mental strength some fellow humans have.
I love these stories of bravery and stupidity.
Stupidity, yes
Bravery if you do it out of necessity, stupidity if you do it for fun or fame.
a lazy annoying vdo....fast forward to the final few min to the 'dive'. And then no real explanation of the cause of failure,,, just a general comment 'lack of experience'... which led to what precisely. Didnt you bother to read and understand the various reports that must be availale. Why did you make this vdo?
Same as 652 Olympic swimming pools stacked corner to corner.
SCUBA, not SCBA. Three football fields end to end, not side by side.
SUBA tanks float Their weight before submerged will not be felt by the diver. But they will be very awkward. There's a reason SCUBA divers wear lead belts.
Cheers
Yeah 'Yeah ' Yeah tell him give it to him straight....
YEAH AND WE HAVE TO REMEBER WE ARE HUMANS NOT SQUIDS THEY NEED TO HAVE A FLOATING SIGN AT THOSE DEEP DIVE SIGHTS 😊
Isn't it 4 football fields?
That's some serious misinformation. For starts, you can't make a blanket statement on this topic or address a specific scenario without knowing a few variables.
For instance, SCUBA cylinders (aka tanks) come in different sizes and materials. A steel tank is ALWAYS negative (will sink) and the deeper the diver goes, the heavier the tank will feel. This is especially true in the earlier stages of it's use. As the contents is depleted, the tank will feel lighter and become more buoyant. But again, a steel tank will NEVER float, on its own.
An aluminum cylinder will also sink (be negatively buoyant) when it is full (which is, of course, how any diving venture should begin), or even half full, generally. But when they have only 'reserve air' (about 500 psi) or less (minding that most commissioned SCUBA cylinders are never fully depleted), they will tend to float.
Buoyancy will vary a bit in sea water vs fresh water, and some other environmental factors, but any full tank is still going to sink under most conditions and 4 tanks will still feel 4 times heavier than 1 tank.
Tanks may be slightly effected by their contents. Recreational divers typically use compressed air, but advanced divers often use nitrox, while commercial and spec ops diverse will even use a helium mix, etc. But the difference would be nominal and 4 tanks are still going to feel 4 times heavier than 1 tank. The only time that might significantly change is when using multiple aluminum tanks, depleting 1 at a time. But I'll let you research any further equations.
There are dive charts all over the web and independent exhibitions all over CZcams that provide the details and nuances.
The constant mixing of metric and imperial measurement is very irritating.
Surrounded by an inexperienced team, that couldn’t comprehend potential problems at depth. They should’ve researched this better and understood the risks that were involved. They are all responsible for this man’s death.
Call him Dr. Death.
Dr deep [blank]
“This is how it went down” … I see what you did there …
Why???? What purpose does it serve??? What does it provide for humanity? His friends should have said NO! And it is not just him.
Actually foot ball fields are 160’ wide so place them side by side does not make sense. Now placing them end to end would make more sense in the way you measure.
It's Sheck Exley. 5 seconds of Google could have told you that instead you disrespected a hero.
The gear may weigh 400lbs on the surface, but you don't have the weight of two men on your back underwater!
Pretty terrible video. So many errors and little actual information. Skip it.
To quote Nuno Gomez." When you chase records, It's not if you will die, it's when! "
Am I understand this correctly - they did not think about tie a rope to him in order to have some type of signals through rope and not lost him by just pulling it?
It's 'Sheck Exley' NOT Shack Exley.
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Im subscribing
this video is terrible.
"The weight of 3 men on him ... underwater... "
clearly OP has never done scuba
600 dives sounds like a lot of dives
This video could have been condensed to 5 minutes! Stop wasting our time if you want us to watch! Please and thank you!
Good comment.
Sheck….not Shack…
2 simple things they could do. Drop a steel cable inside the anchor line and use it like an antenna for comms. Also, why don't they have a device that attaches around the anchor line so they can never fall off of it? That way in an emergency they could winch the line back up slowly and hope for the best.
Only 600 total dives with a small number of deep dives logged?? Going for a record?? Yeah, these numbers alone scream red flags 🤦♂️
I don't really see where crazy daredevils advance man kind.
Just get to the point, 2 day intro is pushing it.
Newp. Happy with my 2 tank dives and a couple margurittas.
Story starts at 13:00 .
You’re welcome 😊
Why did the people around stop him trying to get a record
Hang on ....so Garman was lost , and Ahmed the first guy shown is alive today ....
That's a weird video
No simple teather line, to pull the safety divers towards him / pull him him towards the safety divers ???
At a specific length they would immediately feel a tug and know that there's a problem. At that point, it could probably be successfully overcome. At the very least, it would provide almost certain and immediate recovery of his body.
What an oversight.
Yes. A tether could have saved him. In contrast to what the narrator said, he did not do everything possible for safety. Why was he using outdated information and methods? How did he drown? Did he run out of air? How was his body recovered? A lot of information has been left out. It's SCUBA (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus), not SCBA Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus), which is what firefighters wear. AI narration is annoying.
Diving in such depth is not the smarter thing in the world without special training and experience. The best that he had to do is to use a Kirby Morgan band mask or Helmet.
I stopped at the moment when the voice said that a diver could be crushed by the water. It means that the author of the video has no idea about diving.
Excuse my lack of knowledge, but is pooping allowed?
What? Pooping where? Why? This comment is intriguingly confusing.
@mattymayhem1232 I ask if a diver has to defecate...is this allowable protocol? Or, does taking a dump violate the rules?
I'm deep diver with over 5k dives, my top down was 92 meters using hypoxic Heliox, O2 and Nitrox for deco. It is extremly dangerous but, when you are down, out of our world, you are the first man to watch what you are watching. For me is enough and I'd never do a 300 meters deep but, I understand the call he felt and it's much better to die living than lying on a bed full of pain, blind, deaf and or suffering Alzheimer's.
And just from the choice of the name as a title "Doctor Deep" 😮 it shows a mentally disturbed person
This was completely UNINFORMATIVE!!! Skip it!!
Fast foreword 10 minutes to get to the story. The first 10 minutes is interesting, but has nothing to do with the actual incident itself. And why keep the trimix gas percentages and dive plan secret? This isn’t some classified military operation. Plus, when you DO get to the story, there are really no details about how the incident unfolded. And BTW, and it’s SHECK Exley, not SHACK Exley. Possibly the greatest diver of all time.
Argh stop the swishing sound. It's like tinitus
Clickbait rubbish most of video is filler
600 dives? lol.
How do yo keep your mask from squishing your face?
Hard to watch this video with those many rotating images 🤢
I think this might be a new channel so give them a break, I think the videos are good and getting better. You keep going mate
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I hate these generic photos videos that show unrelated pictures to a story they have dragged out for ever. Crap video. This is nothing to see heremeven for a diver.
HPNS is caused by too much oxygen at depth, not helium. (Certified Open Water SCUBA instructor and Deep Diver.)
You may have confused it with something else, the partial pressure of oxygen stays within physiological limits during a dive and does not cause this. HPNS is a manifestation of helium, which might cause substantial lipid membrane distortion. (Also an instructor.)
Mr risk taker.
Mr. Dead .
he wasnt tethered?
Wrong information about diving physiology
Oh for Christs sake....Shack Exley
One statement, everything was meticulously planned the next everything was half ass. Overall a very poor video.
REALITY CHECK YOUR HUMAN YOUR NOT A SQUID
You're (you are) not your (belonging to someone).👍
Mid 50s is a geezer diving. What was he thinking? Granted, he could be extremely healthy for a 50+ year old man. But that is still a geezer. A woman at around 55 to 60 is still a fine beauty if she cares for herself. For a man, even if taking care of himself, that is a geezer diving. He should have not attempted that. Rest in peace Guy Garmon.
Sheck Exley. If you're going to post a video about diving you should at least Google famous names. Saves you from of looking kind of like a fool.
Lots of dead divers hold impressive records. First of course they’re all Darwin award holders.
Driven to stupidly more like
My 10 mins wasted on garbage talks
focused on safety while preparing for a 1,200 ft dive...those two don't go together
Squid lips.
these people who have it all. Accomplished Doctor, Husband, Dad, Just not enough, gotta have more challenges. Rest in Piece.
This is the Worst video I have seen about this type of content
AI generated bullshit, please thumbs down etc
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More people have been on the moon ? You sure about that ?
They're are rumors that Garbrs record is a fraud
Death by ego
Hard to fault anyone/anything-Even if you do everything right, going that deep it is very probable your body can shut down & die.
Everything about this video just annoyed me you take your time getting to the point which is just a joke. the noise it makes after each picture is just aggravating. I can't even watch
Pics of body recovering or it didn't happen 😷
we nwvr went 2 moon?
But ALICE CRAMDON DID,many many times,LAUNCHED BY RALPH. I actually recall the launch code (TO THE MOON ALICE!!).GODBLESS 😂😊😂😊😂
boring video ...
Isn't it funny how people sitting safely at home judge others by the outcome. You survive you are a brave man , die and you become stupid.
No, people are routinely, justifiably criticized for reckless attempts that they survive.
There's a massive difference between inherent risks, which are mitigated as far as practical by a brave attempt, vs reckless risks created by a person attempting the record in an unreasonable manner.
Except no human ever been to the moon 😉
Dr. Deep? More like Dr. Dumb.
If criticizing were an Olympic event, it seems like the comments below would all be medal winners… those who do more and talk less, even for a shorter period of time, can be far more experienced than those who talk more and do less. Point being, experience has nothing to do with the number of years you dive. Diving Is risky. Deep diving is very risky. Safety is never guaranteed. But this guy at least got off his ass and did something even if it did get him killed, as opposed to so many you, who like to sit back, drink beer, and criticize.
Technically, I’m curious exactly what did go wrong, he drowned is not a very specific answer… Anyway, good video.
He did something that had no real value and died doing it. That doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment to me.
Only the rich get to go. Thank God for the rich. Now the poor can work on filling there tanks and laughing.
Holy $h!+ to Andy. Garman had more guts than sense. However, my kind of guy, "NO FEAR."
it means no one because no one ever landed on the moon much
too much hate in some peoples comments, guys be nice, its never that serious, 🤭
Another Darwin Award…natural selection at its best
Why use a mere 10 words when you can pad it out with 10,000🥱