Horrifying Diving Incidents Caught On Camera 

I didn’t enjoy it

Yes it was!! What you perceive not as exciting or scary is horrifying to some of us others, ya know? Thanks for sharing, also I’m glad you regained your composure enough to recognize the situation you were in and recover from it!!

It was absolutely as terrifying as any other story told here! Please don't try and make one more so! So relieved that you made it out, and kudos to you for getting back on the proverbial horse. Please be careful! And continue to share your story to caution and inspire others!

​@CalciumOxyde your comments suck

Oh my god that sounds terrifying!

In freediving (long breath holds rather than a tank like scuba), it’s not uncommon for divers to lose consciousness or even seize during or upon their return to the surface due to the lack of oxygen reaching the brain. In fact, for competitive freedivers to claim a new depth record, they must maintain consciousness for a minimum of 5 seconds and verbally confirm their cognition with an “OK” to the judge and safety divers at the surface. If they fail to maintain their wellbeing themselves or verbally confirm (i.e. they seize/pass out and need assistance reaching the surface, need assistance maintaining their buoyancy at the surface, etc), the dive attempt will be considered failed and the depth voided. 99% of freediving blackouts happen within 16 ft of the surface due to the drop of partial pressure of oxygen in the lungs as the body is relieved of the oceans pressure. So not only have you absorbed most of the oxygen from your lungs at depth, but as you ascend those oxygen molecules get spaced out and even more scarce. All of that to say, if this wonderful romantic of a man was not a formally trained freediver and was not prepared for the physiological reactions the body has in response to such a long breath hold, it’s easy to imagine he lost consciousness-either at the surface or before reaching it-and drowned. And without anyone on standby prepared to provide aid (like competitive freedivers have), he likely did not recognize how dangerous his plan actually was.

@@Storm411z I've never been diving but have a little brother into SCUBA diving. Something he told me: The laws of physics are unforgiving and Mother Nature always bats last. Respect them when diving, or they'll run over you like a freight train and you likely won't survive the experience. That it happened to an innocent romantic that just wanted to make a unique proposal just tears at me, but the laws of physics do not care. 😣 If he'd had a dive buddy or spotter like trained freedivers do, he probably would have survived.

@@ArchTeryx00bro didn’t think properly and that cost him his life… like seriously if you pay 1800 dollars a night how can you NOT pay 50 dollars for some hotel staff to be your spotter?!?!

Free driving instructor here, this is not accurate. "Uncommon" - BS​@@Storm411z

@@musickat344 Yeah, I think he tragically misjudged just how much time was needed.

not only that but there struggle could also get you in danger and cause a domino effect. they could hit your equipment and may cause you to also panic and make things much worse. I think I saw a video from this channel or a different one where that domino effect of a diver panicking causing their death caused other divers to also panic and drown leading to multiple divers dead

how do they tell him to calm down underwater? the video said he hear voices.

​@@putty-e3686 it was his own brain telling him to calm down

@@putty-e3686 Voices in your head.

When I was a kid I panicked at 108 feet deep while scuba diving. And couldn't calm down. Swam all the way to the surface.

Also going on vacation as a couple, and having your partner DIE.... the legal snarl with that would make everything sooo much worse.

Dude really dodged a bullet, almost got married lol.

That is why when you propose, pls do it the way normal people do. The dude is crazy tbh

@@sparkdrive2900 What are you implying by this? That he deserved to die because his proposal was a little out there? It was incredibly thoughtful and unique and was a million times better than a 'normal' proposal, the fact he died was just a tragic accident that nobody could've seen coming. Have some empathy for God's sake.

@@custardpup6385 I am saying: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. You only have one life, there is no reset. Use your brain, it was given to you to determine the dangers and avoid it.

Always stings hearing Sean telling one person's story in vague probabilities, or having the story told from another person's perspective. Glad it didn't turn out that way with Calum.

cameraman never dies

@@BawlBagOh they do. Dave Shaw, Yuri Lipski, and a few others can be found on RU-vid lol.

Scuba diving is only dangerous if you stray outside of the very clear, very well enforced rules. Steven who died proposing via free diving... He broke the #1 rule of Diving. This is why he died. Dive alone, Die alone! If he had a buddy, he probably would have been resuscitated when he experienced either shallow water blackout or simply ran out of air and drowned. If a person is disciplined, always plans their dive and dives their plan and they do everything within the specified parameters which are really well enforced during your certification, then its honestly a very safe, breathtakingly beautiful, and exceptionally good for the soul and ones mental health. Until you start fucking around with Tech/Cave Diving, or worse.. start pushing limits and chasing records... Then another infamous rule comes into play... It's not if you will die, it's when you will die. In any event, all of the really super interesting stuff is hardly ever deeper than 30m... the deeper you go, the less there is to see :) and then of course we have my mate who was teaching a single student her Advanced out on Aliwal shoal, tied their buoy line down to an anchor at 30m to go swim and look at the schooling sand tiger sharks in the rocky 'cathedral' .. fail. Buoy line snapped and the boat on the surface followed the buoy,.,. they surfaced... no boat in site, typical 2-3m swell, overcast. Thy drifted 20 nautical miles out to sea in Tiger Shark infested water until 5pm that afternoon before they were found by one of the many dive boats that all launched to go find them. 🤣 Gotta live life out of your comfort zone! 😆I cannot even begin to tell you the life changing experiences I have had underwater.. Scuba diving with baby humpback whales, getting 'stuck in traffic' on the way to the dive site and having to jump in and swim with pods of dolphins all getting high on puffer fish, or a whaleshark trawling behind the break line, somersaulting manta rays and Potato Bass that make my 6ft stature seem impish that only want to come up to you for scratches under their chin... There is an entire alien world down there, you literally get to live all those dreams where you can actually fly around weightlessly over an alien landscape while sounding like Darth Vader the entire time.... like what isnt there to like about diving? 🤣

K@@PoseidonDiverkind of like mountain climbing, don't free solo and don't do it alone

Wreck penetrations are not to be taken lightly at all

Yeah...under water is not really the element for man.

Why is it a bad idea to rush to the surface though? Im no diver and i know nothing about diving but if i were on the kids situation i would definitely swim to the surface

@migraine1626 And this is why you absolutely should never dive without proper training. I'll try to give you a very brief rundown of what can happen. Every 10m (or 33ft) underwater you go up 1 atmosphere of pressure. So say you have a 1 gallon jug of air upside down at the surface and bring it down so it doesn't leak. At 10m deep the air in the jug would be compressed to half gallon. At 20m a quarter gallon. It halves in size every 10 meters. If you are breathing gas at depth its pressurized accordingly. The air in your bloodstream is becoming saturated. One of two things can happen if you rush the surface after being down a bit: 1) if you have a full lung of air at depth you MUST exhale slowly as you rise as the gas in your lungs is going to expand accordingly as you surface. Failure to do so will over expand your lungs and cause barotrauma - a condition that can definitely be fatal. 2) if you have been submerged for awhile your bloodstream is becoming saturated with compressed air. If you rush the surface that air has nowhere to go and basically fizzes your bloodstream like opening a soda. This is called the bends and it absolutely can and will also kill you. We prevent this by limiting our dives to not become saturated OR by slowly surfacing and taking rest stops along the way to give time for the pressure in our bodies to slowly equalize. This stuff is all well understood and should never be a threat to a trained recreational diver. Google "the bends" or "barotrauma" if you want to learn more. But yes, a spooked diver with no experience who rushes the surface can have this happen to them.

​​@@migraine1626Basically: humans need certain amounts and types of gas at any one point to be able to even exist. Too much oxygen or nigrogren or helium or any other gas fricks you up bad. So deep divers have to make certain theyre breathing in the right shit. Then when you want to ascend, you can't rush, because now that you've gotten used to the weird gas stuff going on you have to make a pit stop every tens or so meters (it depends) to make certain that your body can release the gas that's been built up over time in your body. So, even if it's a 10-12 minute dive, depending on the depths you may need to spend 10+ hours decompressing as you ascend. I recommend watching other videos on this channel that cover extreme dives, it explains things

@ettaetta439 The different gas mixes have more to do with how the games behave as they concentrate deeper. Trimix and Heliox... even then my understanding is past 500ft you are gonna have wicked narcosis regardless of what happens. The dudes who go deeper are resilient to it and able to keep their wits about them as they experience the effects of narcosis (this is basically more dangerous than driving blackout drunk at night with the lights off). There's also some weird pressure based stuff that happens in the brain that, as far as I can tell, is poorly understood. I've only seen it referenced when talking about people like Shek Exeley doing limit pushing dives (mainly the one that killed him). Diving is very safe if you stay above about 120 ft and follow your dive computer profile or dive chart profile. It's important folks understand the dangers but don't let it stop you diving youtube!

@@AArdW01f Yep. I just tried to simplify it best as I can! I'm not an expert diver or anything.

Even worse about Steven? It was his GF's dumb idea and she's with someone new now.

Wtf is wrong with you? What was her idea and why is she obligated to live life single because her boyfriend died in an accident smh@@rydz656

uh spoiler alert? Thanks for nothing

​@@rydz656turns out people still live their lives after they've lost someone. What a disgusting comment.

​@@IAmTheDawnthat is why you watch the video before reading the comments.

How could she not see him thru the windows underwater? Sounds like murder

@@Insightfulgemstone She did see him through the windows... are you talking about the same video you are commenting on?

Muscle memory is everything its why the army does so many redundant weapons maintenance and reloading drills. It feels pointless after a certain point but when youre metaphorically punched in the gut and blinded with sand youll be able to complete the task even while your brain seems to be misfiring and lost in space. Repetition and muscle memory has saved thousands if not millions worldwide throughout wars

@@spencerkleiman5035exactly! Not military, but I’m a dancer and it can feel annoying to run a dance or part of a dance over and over and over again, but on stage when adrenaline kicks in or you do something wrong having that muscle memory keeps you on track

I'll admit my husband's proposal wasn't anything spectacular but we are happily LIVING together

@@swissmiss6696 spectacularly stupid haha

​@@swissmiss6696 More like spectacularly dumb haha

My bf once spent 6 minutes straight underwater in a hot tub. Eventually, me and his sister pulled him up. He got mad and said he could've gone another minute. So, some people have crazy lungs. Not me, 2 minutes is my max I think.

30ft is not a huge depth for a free dive. Assuming you practice it's not much more dangerous than driving a car.

I always let out a DEEP inhale halfway through these videos. I guess i'm subconsciously tensing up my lungs watching them lol

Breathing is a good thing

Easier said than done 😂

No, I’ll hold my breath the whole video 😂

The most recent example was k

I think he should place more emphasis on the fact that this was an example of a fairly common underwater incident. Most divers have either experienced similar problems directly or have been around someone with these issues.

I feel the same way

Without a doubt.... ☠️

We'll be in need for new stories. Let's keep 'm coming 😂😜😜

Get proper training and don’t think you know it all, cuz you won’t. Diving is a fabulous activity but needs to be taken seriously. Get trained, gain a lot of experience and enjoy

@@ScaryInteresting yeah, thanks man. I went from having some sort of phobia of caving to thinking it would be cool to give it a shot...

Guardian Angel. Thank God you are still alive.

Happen to me too in a 10 ft pool. No one was watching and as a kind I only swam to surface when I calmed down

Should we tell hi about the age when it’s possible to form permeant memories?

@@Whickedlee Nope Nobody asked

@@Whickedlee Actually, that's a very old thing with no real scientific data on it. Strong memories, especially traumatic ones like the original commentor's can hold, scientific data backs this up.

Also not sure why she didn't jump in the water and look. She just screams until a boat comes and people dive in the water?

30 feet is a long way to go holding your breath and the water pressure will push air out of his lungs fast.

@@Partyaap050Umm, maybe she’s not a trained rescuer or she can’t swim? Lol. Jumping in and watching him drown isn’t any better.

@@candyd.4398facts, and if even if she did know how to swim well, but aren’t trained in rescuing someone you can get yourself in trouble and make it two deaths rather than one

I used to be a working diver, you'd be surprised how easy it is to lose track of a dive buddy, especially if you're performing a task or have bad visibility.

The way it was told and details included made it obvious that he lived.

I agree - hardly a mystery

Not quite an accurate description of shallow water blackout. The problem isn't 'too much' CO2, it's not enough CO2. Your physiological breathing 'sensors' are based on how much CO2 has accumulated, not how much O2 you have. By hyperventilating and removing too much CO2, it takes longer for the diver to feel the need to breathe. By the time CO2 levels have risen again, the diver is already hypoxic. If this is the case, which it seems likely, then the extra tragedy of that last video is that the diver had already begun drowning DURING his proposal without either of them having any way of knowing.

Thats not it works at all. Hyper ventilation and shallow water blackout are unrelated. First of, water is too shallow for ''shallow water blackout'' as its only a issue for deep diving athletes. This person probably hyperventilated in the hope of stying longer underwater, but that has no effect on the breath holding duration, but removes the human bodies critical sign ''Immense need to breathe'' which causes a normal ventilated human to surface, which probably cause this person to lose consciousness underwater.

You should NEVER HYPERVENTILATE before a dive. No experienced breath-hold athlete would do this as its a death trap. Instead some athletes, do glossopharyngeal insufflation also known as ''lung packing''

@@berkaybattal7433 You don't know what you are talking about you have just used google to appear clever

Same for me😊. The best scary Interesting channel on YT as of 2023

A catalogue of errors. What a perfect way to say it.

That makes so much sense

I disagree with your temperature limit for wet suits but agree on the catalogue of errors. Only a year after his first dive and his parents being 'experienced' divers how did anyone think he was capable of this dive? Training needed: Deep dive Wreck dive Nitrox Peak boayancy Confined space He also clearly didn't have the experience of breathing regulated air. Or of diving in conditions he didn't train for. The dive master and parents should think hard about their decisions.

As soon as I heard they were going into the wreck I knew that's where shit will go wrong. A person that inexperienced should never have been allowed inside. Going that deep in itself is already a danger for inexperienced divers. But bringing him along into the wreckage is just asking for trouble

His voice is really nice to listen to when winding down at the end of the day

I just got up and was looking for something to scare me to wake me up for the day 😂

@@that_pan_chick8650 he is good for that too lol

@@everythingisnand definitely! I always watch his videos at night even if I find them the first thing in the morning.

@@that_pan_chick8650 oh lmao. I couldn't imagine watching something like this in the morning lol 😂

He may have simply passed out too. He may or may not have trained to hold his breath underwater for the moment, but it's one thing to practice holding your breath, then another thing to swim and physically exert yourself while holding your breath, AND it's another thing to perform the latter when you're about to PROPOSE which is sure to increase heart rate and possibly push you to hold your breath even longer so that the moment is perfect. He may have simply pushed his limits and didn't resurface in time.

Yeah. He was to young and inexperienced for the dive or he would have realized he was already in trouble. The dive master should have been more attentive to such a young, lean diver using a gas mix for the first time and wearing unfamiliar gear. His parents either over stated Callum's experience or were wildly over confident in his abilities for such a deep, cold water wreck dive.

Shut up

All things one would probably trust their parent to know I think. If I was 17 and my parents (who were apparently somewhat experienced in diving) took me on a trip like that I wouldn't question it either..poor kid...

​@@emim.5092 I am 17 and my father is a dive master, I have my open water and Nitrox certifications. I know that my father would not encourage me to go somewhere I shouldn't be. But even then I would not go into a cave/wreck even if he said it's safe

It scares me to just THINK about putting my kids in dangerous situations like this. Its our job as parents to protect our kids​@emim.5092

Also… do more research. Water doesn’t flow into your mouth any different at depth if you were breathing air at that same pressure… Sounds more like the guy inhaled before purging the regulator.

You were clearly not ready for such a dive. Training and experience matters. So many panicky ding dongs get in trouble when not prepared for these experiences.

@@griffini19 yeah, obviously.

Cold water hits different lol. I dive in Canada and before each descent, I try to submerge my face without the mask but with my regulator in my mouth. I’ll take a couple breaths first, then put my mask on and descend normally. That way if for any reason my mask comes off, it won’t be as much of a shock.

You should NEVER HYPERvENTILATE before a dive as its a death trap. No experienced athlete would do this. Instead there is technique knows as ''lung packing'' which is also known as glossopharyngeal insufflation.

​@@berkaybattal7433 okay David Blaine

If you think these are bad...try cave and cave diving gone wrong....i unsubscribed to a couple...anxiety was too much😂

@@Anothermachine Yep, I came here from those channels. 😵‍💫

@@Anothermachinelike the Nutty Putty story-horrific!!

You should check this guy podcast

No, thats totally not how it works and it happens to breath-hold divers. Because athletes dive so deep(30 m to up to 214 m), the pressure in their lung increase by a great margin. This pressure causes their lungs to shrink but when they start ascending, their lungs expand because of the decreasing pressure. These expanded lungs causes the solved oxygen in blood to be literally sucked to their lungs thus causing severe hypoxia and loss consciousness.(you lose consciousness if your blood oxygen pressure drops too low) So it can't be shallow water blackout as the water was too shallow, he probably hyperventilated before diving thus causing him to lose consciousness underwater.

Also this happens under water and usually around 10 m to the surface

@@berkaybattal7433 I will be the first to admit that I am not a diver so if I’m wrong then I am more that willing to learn. The article from which I posted that definition has surface blackout as a different type of event to shallowater or deepwater blackout. What you are describing seems to match the definition below (from the same article). “Shallow/Deepwater Blackout” Characterized by a loss of consciousness as an individual nears the surface after a deep dive (>30 ft.). This is the most common among freedivers and spearfishermen/women. The main mechanism behind this blackout is the drop in partial pressure of oxygen in the lungs as the absolute pressure of the surrounding water drops nearer to the surface. The lungs expand, pulling oxygen from the blood and less oxygen is able to get to the brain, leading to syncope (fainting), eventual involuntary inhalation of water and drowning. Again, I’m not a diver. Are you saying that these two types of blackout aren’t different? And I not asking to be a jerk, I really want to know as I’m a teacher and am always down to learn something new or correct my own misconceptions You mentioned this 10 meters and the video said the bedroom was at 30ft. You also said it happens to breath divers and this poor guy was holding his breath. I was merely putting forward another theory i heard about this exact case by the “Dive Talk” RU-vid channel. They brought it up as a possibility and have something like 65 years of experience between them which I why I even mentioned it lol.

I think it depended on the cost. Some places charge a steep fee for autopsies

They know he drowned. They don't know why he drowned.

Perfect isn't it. Background music is normally annoying and distracting but this never overtakes the narrative

Even experienced divers avoid entering wrecks.

You don't enter a wreck without a line & why did his Dad just swim off & leave him? Great buddy, great parent, not.

@zetectic7968 Yeah his dad sounds like a casual open water diver with little to no penetration diving experience.

Idk, sometimes a voice like that can kick-start your survival instincts enough to help.

There are quite a few dive physics errors, which is unfortunate as I generally like this creator and their format

Then you are not scared of the deep. Why watch this at all?

​@asmurk1276 the first line he says they are scared of the deep ocean, did we not read the same comment?

​@@prestonmitchell9135*she. Its a girl, that's why everyone is acting weird

@CharlieKellyEsq thanks for your correction I'm sure the people who can read are extraordinarily thankful for your input.

Same feelings here! Thalasophobiac & yet still so amazed and urged to watch aaaaaall diving stories from Scary Interesting - also not exactly sure why, but really love it

Less gesticulating lol

*Kenesha, I believe

I agree with you especially over not having a line to follow. I think the kid handled it well though. He had a lot to deal with. Bit confused over the octi rig swap over problems. I can't remember any real dramas switching to an octi.

It is. Or, it's supposed to be. There should be one large clip covered by velcro. Specifically to make it easy to undo in an emergency (just rip the velcro and undo the clip and voila).

@@lacorbeau thats what i thought. Surely he should have been able to remove or alter it when he started.