The Mount Everest of Scuba Diving
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- John Hanzl talks about technical diving and his experience diving on the Andrea Doria, a mecca for treasure divers. This lecture was presented by the New England Aquarium and recorded on 5/3/10. View more lectures at: / wgbhforum
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Very nice presentation ... especially with the human side stories of the characters involved. I also like that mention of the mishap regarding the drop line release, which emphasises how risk prone this activity is ... the smallest thing can make serious troubles. Well done John ... thanks for posting this video !
Great presentation. So full of diving information/adventure.
Excellent presentation! I'm training as a Technical diver and hoping to dive the Andrea Doria within 3 years. I'm building my Resume with trimix dives from the Saint Lawrence seaway, Florida, North Carolina, Long Island and New Jersey. This presentation was awesome for me and my girlfriend to see. Thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Have you got to dive the Doria? 5 years ago you within 3 years?! If so, what was your experience?
Great presentation John. Thanks.
Wow... some of the comments are clueless. To dive the Doria with Gary Gentile would be an honor. I never had the money to do this but I dive deep wrecks on the Great lakes. John is spot-on about this wreck and yes you do have to have an attitude they don't call it "Mt Everest" for no reason. Great presentation!
You're clueless, I dived the Doria and it was simple, I even found the captains porn collection, with only half a tank of air.
Glad I’m just a loathsome rec.diver. Amazing story, great details: thanks for sharing.
Very genuine. Thank you. Raphael Santore
I'm glad folks have enjoyed this talk. If anyone has questions, wants to read more about things I've been working on, or wants to learn more about my writing, please check out my author's website at www.johnhanzl.com or find me on Twitter @JohnHanzl
People are still enjoying it.
Very interesting. Well done.
I am a serious "Andrea Doria" historian. I would love to talk John at length regarding the ship wreck as it lays today. Great presentation.
PRR5406 same here . I swam into it a few times
You should have taken a different boat.... back then, the Sea Hunter III out of Freeport, LI would have been better. We've dove the Doria and every Sunday, the local wrecks. The boat also has it's own compressor too, along with a lot of gear space. Also, the Wahoo is not the most "stable" boat. But, as long as you had a great time! Entertaining video and presentation. Brings back memories for me. You had one of the greatest backup buddies you could ever want!
Great presentation. Does video exist of the Q and A?
Any diver who is confident to dive the doria, and survive, is a true diver in my mind.
and the rest aren't true divers? psshht
Kevin Galloway any diver who doesn’t stir up silt and can dive well is a true diver
I have been to 120M in the Red Sea with Rod Abbotson of DiveAqaba... but this is OMG...way intense.
Elliott Oppenheim 120m? That’s 400ft. That’s a very deep dive, almost twice as deep as the Andrea Doria.
acording to wikki the stockholm just was retireds this past april
It sound like a big dive or only for professional divers well I think is gone be a goal for me jajajajaja
Dive dive dive the ship he and co are going to dive is just a hunk of rusty metal that u can hardy see. In fact sometimes u can't see it at all
This seems more like show and tell...not a presentation where people wanted to see this lol
Hardcore dive but a bit excessive complaint about the boat conditions I think.
You've never been on that boat ...have you.... If you have, then you know what he is talking about. Not a boat I would choose to dive from on a Doria trip. Many don't mind. And they do local dives in LI.
Is ' china ' code for valuables ? I can't imagine a locked Pursers cabinet containing china lol . Very interesting speech, thank you for sharing it. Stay safe :-)
(In that instance it was wine that was the desire...)
This guy might be okay but the huge ego of many of the divers I have encountered is enough to make me want to avoid being in the same room with them.
Right, I know very well what you mean
"Humiliation is the reverberation of an ego that has gone too far. " U.S Navy Captain M. Steele
A lot of Technical Divers die and this will continue. Just know the risk and be willing to accept it. There is a lot of skin in the game. If there is one thing certain we know about death , it is that those that care about us will miss us.
mans did a 240 fsw dive in open circuit.... he would have gotten more bottom time with less deco on a rebreather. whatthefuck
"I don't eat mammals." Oh geez...one of those.
He might have alpha-gal syndrome, which is an allergy to the meat of mammals. It's transmitted from a tick bite and it cannot currently be cured.
The Dorea really isn't the mount Everest of Scuba Diving. The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is the Mount Everest of Scuba Diving. The Andrea Dorea sits at 240fsw while the Edmund Fitzgerald sits at 530 ffw. Edmund Fitzgerald is illegal to dive one anymore due to the depth. Great presentation but whith all due respect the Andrea Dorea IS NOT the Mount Everest of Scuba Diving.
It got its name as the Mt Everest of diving in the 1970s, when only hardcore North Atlantic deep wreck divers were diving it on air while dealing with narcosis, oxygen toxicity and carbon dioxide buildup and penetrating deep inside the hull. Yes, if you apply today standards and equipment it’s not, but back then there were not rebreathers, trimix, nitrox, training, the same equipment as we have today etc..
just like a mountaineer would nowadays tell you that climbing Everest with oxygen and Sherpas carrying your stuff is nothing..
@@brunol-p_g8800 perfect point, couldn’t have said it better!
This guy has a big mouth.
Hate to break it to this guy, but a 90 minute dive to just over 70 meters in open water isn't anywhere close to being the Mt. Everest of diving. A solid tech dive, yes. Not even close to Everest. But here sure seems to think he's special.
Well, 11 years ago yes it was, and 40+ years ago when it got the “Mt Everest of diving” name you were diving on air and had to deal with narcosis, oxygen toxicity and carbon dioxide buildup while penetrating deep inside a wreck laying on its side and navigating the mazes of labyrinths made by the full of silt corridors, not even talking about the currents there… yes it was, and it still is. We are talking about North Atlantic deep wreck diving with penetration here, so the name “Mt Everest of diving”, not some cave diving done in Florida or elsewhere: even the best of the best of cave divers don’t dare dive it and the ones who did it didn’t came back- see John ormsby in 1987
We’re talking cold water, bad visibility, silted corridors, sharp steel, cables and all sorts of snagging hazards, collapsing steel plates, currents, sharks,etc.
What a show off...you can't be a good diver with that mindset