For those of you who don’t know what nitrogen narcosis is, it’s when you have to much nitrogen in your body and it gives you a intoxicated effect. Turns out I had nitrogen narcosis, and had dropped to 40 meters when I couldn’t swim anymore. Once we got up closer, I started to feel normal again but abit dazed and confused. The dive guide now is freaking out and trying to make sure everyone is alright, they all start swimming me back up and in to shore. My mum quickly grabbed my arm as I fell but I had no leg movement, so I started dragging her to the bottom with me, my dad now realises somethings wrong and grabs my mum trying to pull us all up. Suddenly I didn’t feel right, my breathing felt funny, I tried to grab my gauge to check how much air I had left, it took every bit of muscle I had to reach for my gauge connected to my waist, I slowly grabbed it and read that I had about half a tank left, relived for a split second but still concerned something was wrong I reached for my mum to signal her something wasn’t right, I grabbed her arm but couldn’t hold on, I just started sinking to the bottom. I still don’t really know what happened that night but it felt like we were staring at these fish for forever. We were supposed to only dive down to a depth of 25 meters and check out these flashlight fish that would school together in a cargo hold, they had these really bright green eyes that looked amazing and lit up underwater. I was 14 at the time and my parents were life long divers, we dived the Coolidge twice that day already and our guide offered a night dive to us.
Scuba Diving in Vanuatu on the President Coolidge, very famous wreck dive that you can walk from the shore and dive the bow from 15 meters all the way down to 70 meters. I surfaced ASAP and got as far away from the drop off as possible and tried to pretend I never saw it. The water was so deep and inky blue with no sea floor in sight and my stomach somehow dropped into my a*s and jumped into my throat at the same time. I finished inspecting another little coral group and turned around to see where the group were and suddenly saw the sandy sea floor disappear over a knife sharp drop off. I was diving down to these little reef outcrops and checking out the fish and had barely looked ahead of me other than to check on the group. As I said, the water was gorgeously clear.
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There was a small group going at a leisurely pace that I could clearly see, so I decided to do some free diving. I was hesitant as he said the current can get quite strong and I'm not the best swimmer, but he said I could join them for as long as I felt comfortable, so I came along. We'd just finished swimming with some sting rays when the tour guide offered to take some of us out for a swim in deeper water. I was on a boat tour that stopped off in a small bay with f*****g beautiful, crystal clear, light turquoise water and nearly white sands. So this is proper babby's first free dive material and I've since learned I'm terrified of the ocean, so this probably isn't that scary to most people. I've posted this before but it's been a year, so f**k it haha That was a good lesson for me not to underestimate the nitrogen narcosis and the effects it has on the mind. Smiling and kicking my fins thinking i am going up while actually descending deeper. When i saw the video i was amazed at how happily stupid i looked. Best part of the whole experience - it was all on film and the people in the dive center saw it and kind of congratulated me on being alive. That’s when the instructor came to my resque and everything ended up well. Basically i was sinking vertically without even understanding my mistake. Little did i know that i was completely narced and confused the button that blows the BCD up with the one that dumps the air. My instructor was happy and we carried on with the slow ascend. I aced that test! Performed it faster and better then on the surface in the comfort of an air-conditioned classroom. We went down to 40 meters and i did a math test to check if i was thinking straight or narced on nitrogen. Was doing a deep dive certification with an instructor in Dahab, Egypt.
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