rescue diver

[givenup]

many years ago i was just finishing second deep dive of the day (about 35m i think), after a safety stop i surfaced to the ladder to find one of the other divers in total panic...
He, d been mucking about on the boat and had dived in off the back of the only to surface minus his stainless steel sub mariner.
The boat was anchored on a pinnacle and all around was deep 40+ m. After instructing someone to throw a weighted bouy off the back, roughly where the y thought it might be ,i agreed to go down and have a look. I was pretty low on air but i was the only diver that day with a computer(it was about 15 yrs ago)
I dropped down to bottom , about 40m with about 2m viz, i had about 2 or 3 mins bottom time, and swam in a circle abut the line when in cam e to view the watch with a busted strap.
After a slow ascent the first thing to braek the surface was my right hand holding the watch to one very happy guy.
That night i was treated to a bottle of whisky and many beers(dont think i bought one) and next had a massive hang over.
FAIR DEAL OR NOT ????????? COMMENTS PLEASEE
oh heres a picture as well

[C. Davidson]

Fair deal, you are a good man for doing that. Thanks for sharing that interesting story.

[Lamone]

One great story.
I just hope it was a GOOD bottole of whisky.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by givenup

many years ago i was just finishing second deep dive of the day (about 35m i think), after a safety stop i surfaced to the ladder to find one of the other divers in total panic...
He, d been mucking about on the boat and had dived in off the back of the only to surface minus his stainless steel sub mariner.
The boat was anchored on a pinnacle and all around was deep 40+ m. After instructing someone to throw a weighted bouy off the back, roughly where the y thought it might be ,i agreed to go down and have a look. I was pretty low on air but i was the only diver that day with a computer(it was about 15 yrs ago)
I dropped down to bottom , about 40m with about 2m viz, i had about 2 or 3 mins bottom time, and swam in a circle abut the line when in cam e to view the watch with a busted strap.
After a slow ascent the first thing to braek the surface was my right hand holding the watch to one very happy guy.
That night i was treated to a bottle of whisky and many beers(dont think i bought one) and next had a massive hang over.
FAIR DEAL OR NOT ????????? COMMENTS PLEASEE
oh heres a picture as well

So what you are saying you risked getting a bend or even your life for a watch.You just done a second dive to around 35m then you go back down to 40m low on air alone with no buddy. And no surface time to get some of the quite high residual nitrogen left in your body from previous dive.

[erwin]

You are either the hero of the day or the dumbest man in the world!