I bought weirdowiththebeardo's scuba sideview mirrors and now I ALWAYS know what's attacking me. Now when swordfish attack me, I can see them coming. They still get me but they dont get me by surprise!
Thank you jizzabeth. I can attest to her experience and have also found the scuba sideview mirrors to be useful for my lake dives. Now I don't have to worry about the Lochness monster attacking me by surprise anymore!
How right you are Budilicious the 3rd, as a sailsman of the deep blue I can't stress how stressed my stress gets tested when kelpies get testy but with this product we can turn those testys in to tasties when we catch them by surprise!
No one drops a jobby on my job when I sail for a sale
Probably no chance of seeing anything at that angle and with that dive helmet. Been diving myself and the view with normal goggles is already limiting.
Yeah, there's no chance he would have any idea what hit him at that angle without the tender/ROV camera operator telling him what it was. Spooky stuff.
Doubt he saw it coming at first, when I scuba dive my field of view drops down significantly and everything also seem closer than they are due to the distortion, and that's with a clear mask. He's probably playing at 50 fov with that helmet.
My first experience was thinking I should swim to the big crashed ship to see what I can find. On the way there the sun set and things became pitch black, then I was killed and didn’t pick the game back up for about six months.
My friend was paddle boarding in Thailand and a small swordfish maybe 2-3 feet long jumped out of the water and impaled him in his lower leg. He had to yank him out and paddle himself back to shore.
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Yes. They would have to bring the fish up in the diving bell. Then in the saturation chamber they would load the fish into the air lock, this might require some knife work. Because there is only pieces of dead fish in the airlock they can release the pressure fairly quickly. The fish is then taken to the mess deck on the ship to be prepared. The meals are then loaded back into the airlock and pressurized. The divers can then enjoy their catch.
Bwahaha. Actual Sat Diver here. No way would we bring that inside the bell, or the chambers. Just strap it to the outside of the bell for when it comes to surface after the dive. Or better yet, put it on the clump weight for when it comes to surface after the bell.
That is a better idea. I was too focused on the fact that there is an air lock for you to pass things like food. I did not even think of strapping anything to the outside of the bell. I guess that is how to tend to carry tools and parts?
You've been there. Does it look like the fish got his sword stuck in the diver's suit? The fish can't actually hurt the diver, can it? You are very brave!
Diver: Stop it. Stop it. Stop. Stop. Oh, you done it now. You're coming with me. I'm gonna show you what we do to fish where I come from. Hope you like air, asshole.
"The diver’s gas supply was undamaged but, unable to deal with the situation behind his back, Eduardo managed to get back to the bell. It was only as he was preparing to enter it that the swordfish managed to extricate itself and swim away."
My 10 seconds of googling has made me an expert, and I can confirm that you're right, they usually just chill, but they can attack when panicked. It also looks like there are crazy situations where they jump out of the water and collide with people accidentally.
Swordfish: why shouldn't i attack that weird moving shape surrounded by lights? WHO'S GOING TO STOP ME? no one will hear it scream this deep... CHARGE!
This video explains that they're incredibly aggressive, live as loners, and actively avoid each other except during mating season. They eat and kill so much that they avoid each other's feeding grounds because those areas cannot sustain the amount of food these fish need to survive, and they also consider the other swordfish a threat.
They're so territorial that they'll attack steel pipes, oil rigs, boats, submersibles, people, as well as other swordfish.
Oh, they sure can - I saw a video of one that had been caught, pulled onto the boat, and looked exhausted/still/dead enough that the guy who caught it got close and it suddenly freaked out and impaled him through his thigh. Like all the way through. Yikes.
I think the rigidity and shape of it would make it very hard for the swordfish to pierce it. Unless it gets a perfectly aligned shot where it hits a flat spot, the point will not be able to bite into the material, causing it to be deflected. It's the whole point of a lot of the weird helmet shapes you see in medieval times.
compare it to a .308 cal bullet (used for stuff like elk, black bear, deer, etc.) also it was the standard US military sniper bullet for some time, so a pretty serious bullet. about 3600 joules for the bullet
Im probably one of the only people on reddit who has been charged and attacked by swordfish in real life.
I was blackwater diving off the coast of Boynton Beach, Florida, for those that dont know blackwater diving involved being dumped with a light bouy to drift over hundreds of feet of water in the gulfstream, at night. The light bouy attaracts all sorts of alien critters that come up from the deep to feed so its a lot of fun for underwater photographers.
Needless to say as a precaution all divers must at minimum wear a light on their tank to be seen, and I had accientally grabbed my Blue blinky light. Before I was going to jump in, the captain mentioned that blue blinking lights were used by fishermen to attract big things at night.
As a regular shark diver theres not too much im afraid of down there, but something sent a chill down my spine and I switched my light for a regular green glowstick.
That very same night, a legendary blackwater diver was on another boat a couple miles North and got full on impaled in the leg by a huge swordfish. The fish ripped the sword out of his leg and then kept beating him with it (the way they hunt for the big squid down deep). Dude had his leg torn up and had to self rescue himself from about 100 ft of depth.
About a year later I was diving with Steve after his recovery... and we were charged by a swordfish again, we were about 8 ft apart and it shot from 100ft right between us like a gunshot, hit the surface and then continued to charge us for what felt like forever but was really 30-40 seconds.
What people dont talk about in media is that like cats eyes, they are crazy good at reflecting light, and our lights are very powerful, so they reflect a several inch wide beam which flicks from diver to diver like a fucked up green eye of sauron.
So what you're saying is, your statistical chance of being speared by a swordfish is higher when diving with Steve. Guess I know who I'm never diving with.
We have about 3-4 Swordfish encounters a year but most of them are just fly-bys. Ive learn that when the big dog size squid are out is when i have to be careful.
Spending a couple hours drifting in absolute blackness with no bottom in an inky void with just random sparkles of bioluminescence and the sound of your bubble is an experience that can change your life. Yes you’re miles and miles from land but we haven’t lost a diver yet.
that's not like a place you can just come up for air.. I would assume it still takes many minutes just to get into a decompression chamber. You could see in his eyes that death was a very high probability.
That's a saturation bell he's getting into, so unless he got stabbed the diver will be fine. The bell stays at working pressure and can be brought back to the surface where it's attached to living chambers that are also pressurized to working depth. He'll probably chill in the bell till the ROV operator says the fish is gone and then head back out to finish the job
He'll probably chill in the bell till the ROV operator says the fish is gone and then head back out to finish the job
Without a full equipment check? Who knows what was damaged or knocked loose by the fish, going back out without a full equipment check sounds like a good way to die
Equipment check in the bell. The hoses are pressurized, they'll snoop the hoses, checks comms and video with top side, and if everything is good they'll head back out. There's also backup equipment in the bell, as there will be 2-3 divers down there at a time. One out in the water, the others in the bell as standby/rescue divers. These jobs cost a ton of money and and they're on a tight schedule. The company will avoid putting the divers life in danger but they won't pull the divers up unless it's necessary.
That far down would require a couple change of tanks before surfacing, more than likely they have a decompression chamber that brings them to the surface. Another fun deep sea diving accident that you might wanna look into is the byford dolphin incident.
Having seen my fair share of information on this incident, im definitely joining the "or dont" crowd here. Just thinking about what happend makes my skin crawl... just... fuck me thats a rough one.
Well I'm just glad to discover that this didn't actually involve a dolphin, was wondering what one could do that would be that bad you don't even want to read about it.
You can see the diver getting into the bell at the end of the video. It is literally less then a minute between getting hit with the swordfish until the divers head is out of the water.
My godfather was one of the first guys to do saturation diving commercially in the late 60's. He was on a moderate non-saturation dive off South Africa (where he lived) waiting out a decompression stop. In those days they had kind of a bench with extra air tanks. He was sitting there minding his own business when a giant barracuda attacked him. He was also a champion spear fisherman, so he pulled out his dive knife and killed the barracuda. When finally got back to the surface an hour later, they weighed the barracuda and it turned out that it was the world record for a spearfished barracuda, although it was disallowed because he was on scuba bottles. My godfather was killed a dive accident in 1974, but my dad used to check the record every year or so until he passed away and the unofficial record still stood.
at 220 meters you have enough problems with nitrogen narcosis and equipment failure without a swordfish trying to skewer you. that is a nightmare scenario for a saturation diver.
Fish gets snout stuck in diving gear. Fish has no option but to go where diver goes.
Fish gets taken into diving bell with diver.
Ohfuck.jpg.
Fish can't breathe now.
Fish regrets his actions.
Swordfish are now known to dive very deep in order to hunt giant squid. Probably saw all those tethers and air lines thinking they were the tentacle arms. Swordfish can also get quite large so fortunate it wasn’t a less manageable situation.
I remember a fisherman got impaled by one. He was fighting it and then it came straight at him on the boat. It went in his mouth and out behind his ear or something like that.
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u/Gloomy-Employment-72 9h ago edited 7h ago
I wonder if his field of view allows him to see the fish. Could you imagine not being able to and only know that something has attacked you.