scuba, cave diving ''The Big Black'' The last dive of David Shaw 21 43, XviD format

is it about deep cave diving that holds such a fatal attraction for David Shaw it was a challenge he could not turn away from diving 271 meters below the surface of Boozman Scott cave one of the world's deepest freshwater diving holes and it was while setting a world record there last year that he discovered the body of another diver D'Andrea who died 10 years ago and so sure returned to recover the body the mission was successful but ultimately it cost him his life producer Charlene Stanley brings you his story right from when it first began and tonight we bring you exclusive never-before-seen footage of shores last moments before succumbing to his watery grave 28 October 2004 50 year old Australian diver Dave Shaw sets a new world record using a rebreather system he's gone 271 metres down to the bottom of boos Mons hut in the northern cape and he brings news from the deep yes found the body of dion dryer a young diver drowned yet 10 years ago wasn't very steep in there I saw the body hive on tamale I thought oh that's the end of Gandhi so just tied my lines hook and by then eyes all you ain't discuss that and so I just flipped the line I would guess that the bodies between 15 and 20 meters from the line yeah sure makes a promise to dry his parents you bring them they son's body he's going back down Dion prior had a passion for life only 20 years old he chased always boyo dreams he was a motorized ER combat shooter and a cave diver he died after presumably suffering a deep water blackout during a dive at booze mobs huts ten years later his parents are still struggling to come to terms with his death they gladly accept Dave shoes offer a lot of people say what do you want - that is a bag of bones to me it's not a bag of bones it's my son I don't care what's inside that weights it to me that's not important that's my son deep cave calm is the personal website of Dave Shaw an airline pilot but his true passion cave-diving the site tells the story of a technical diving expert a dedicated Explorer a man who won't back down from a challenge I might be wrong but I think he's the only guy on the planet at the stage with the true ability to do the recovery to see my wasn't lovely to see you how was the trip have a good ride did you yes perfectly yours I find myself back in this beautiful location in January 2005 and after to repeat their world-record dive in an attempt to recover Adi Andres body so the dryer family can finally put closure to this very sad chapter in their lives the recovery attempt is a massive operation the help of police divers and the Defense Force have been called in please farmers you got 10 minutes that means you've got 7 it takes days to prepare the site specialized medics on standby when I first discovered him I tried to lift him up but found that there he was very firmly stuck in the mud well not actually his body but his tanks were on his back they were in the mud so the first thing I have to do when I reach him is removed him from his tanks when I placed him into a body bag what we've done is designed a body bag this is it here and I'll be taking this down with me and feeding Deion in to the body bag you'll notice that there's some netting at the bottom the reason for the netting is so that any flow of water goes straight through the bag and doesn't create a a sea anchor effect and make a difficult for me to bring him back to the surface 30 minutes later yeah a dive plan coordinates Shaw and his support artists actions down to the last second longtime friend and highly qualified diving instructor Don Shurley helps with a planning if anyone falls out of that a camera in a specially designed underwater housing will be mounted on shores head gear um yes it's a it'll be a world-first getting footage from the sort of dip so ah it will be interesting to see if it works or not the big day dawns the dive plan kicks in short ascent will be fast following a pre-installed drop line he should reach the bottom of the cave within 13 minutes he'll then follow the same guideline he had previously attached to dry his body he has five minutes to put the body into the body back following the cave line again you'll move back to the drop line with draya's body you'll then slowly make its way up handing the body to Don Shurley we'll be waiting at 220 meters surely we'll pass the body on to other divers waiting at different levels meanwhile show will continue to slowly ascend resting and changing gases along the way to prevent getting decompression sickness support divers we'll meet him at different depths they'll bring him food and liquids and check his condition about 12 hours after entering the water he'll be back on the surface that was the plan an hour and a half into the dive and an ominous message reaches the surface you've read the slide - yes okay no Donna day and we've sure and surely have failed to meet the support divers waiting for them roughly halfway to the bottom it turns out that when Shore did not meet him at 220 meters as planned surely had gone down to look fine but at 250 meters being counter problems everybody one thing another message Long's okay that's the logical surely had seen a lot in the distance it wasn't coming up he had done what he could to get to shore now an imported diving rule applied look after yourself first Don's computers stuff for biggie the focus shifts to Don Shurley he's showing signs of vertigo and has started vomiting underwater doc says if he's breathing then bring him up straightaway we need to make a decision if he is not breathing Linda twelve and a half hours after entering the water he's brought to the surface Reggie Franchitti shivering disorientated and weak but alive happy with it okay he's stabilized and immediately taken to a decompression chamber today's wish was to to stay if he died diving to stay where he was and I feel that Dave should stay where he is I'm sure he would like the camera to come back so you could see what were the last moments in the circumstances of it I think we should leave his body where it is oh so I also have to accept because I've got no choice but three days later it's time for final goodbyes have a look first vomit and time to pack up the six-shot line that runs all the way to the bottom is pulled up there commensal imagine yatta it's thinner than like a startling discovery it lets you set win back the life and if I yell at the common region in what seems like the greatest coincidence both bodies aren't covered and we're 20 meters from the surface they were stuck against the ceiling and yonghwa's dangling actually the cave line to cave real if we used the line was caught up in Dion's body all over his body and Dave's torch caught the line and that was the only thing holding Dion today as the drop line was pulled up the two bodies came with the 10 year old corpse of Dion dryer trailing behind Shore in the end he did bring drier he had kept his promise it forms a stark contrast dune dryers old-fashioned rusty 20 pack cylinders die sure sophisticated rebreather but all eyes are on one piece of equipment Shores camera still perfectly intact we actually viewed the tape in every possible way that you could actually think we've been through it in real time in slow time freeze frame backwards and forwards and really interpretive what exactly went on the footage shows Shah shaking hands with diving buddy Don Shurley for the last time as he submerges the clock starts ticking don't surely describes what happens underwater ok nowadays going to move over to the entrance of the cave see I will clear the water is already the sounds you're hearing there the divers below is doing the filming I was getting ready to go down now dissenters begun now moving through the restriction just checking that everything's okay with the computer see part of the cave there as we're moving through this is the oxygen hanging at 6 meters it's past getting past all the clutter that's there there's our cameraman everything's going good and moving quickly final check that makes good moving down now soon be coming to the roof was passed in 22 meters everything going good okay we're on the roof let's see a bit of rock coming down from the roof there now we're in the clear now we're descending on the line running down the line quickly everything's going good final check PPO 2's are good moving down the line my oxygen levels are right our computers are good passing some of the stage cylinders lots of cylinders on this line today's moving down very quickly now he's helping yourself go down running the line very quickly down freezing is good approaching those we are on the bottom now moving along there's the big thick line from the down line okay now we're coming to the small line which goes off to the body okay those working hard now is trying to save as much time as he can and there we have burners dolphin the dolphin that was put in the roof as a joke Taverna now it's deflated and gone all the way back down to the bottom looking everything's good ten minutes into the dive very quick descent everything's great now Dave's working hard this is his jogging is like jogging on the surface so he's actually breathing quite heavily at 270 meters see how clear everything is nice bright light shining can see everything happening alright getting ready for the body okay they will be able to see Dion now as Dion's legs right we're still on plan everything is going good we're working hard I don't do the bag and put it over the legs everything's good checking everything's right breathing heavily still jogging still jogging okay bit of silt but I expect that okay I'm doing the bag and trying to slide it up the links now things are not to plan because the body is loose it's not in the snow longer stuck in the mud everything is loose the body's moving around with its cylinders those working hard trying to work out what to do next still checking is still checking all the gauges he's breathing heavy is working hard now this line is just getting everywhere because this body is floating it's not stuck everything's moving my light gets caught on the line they're moving out the way still got a nice bright light moving up now we can't put the bag over so it's a case of just untangling the cylinders from the line here you see rushing trying to get these scissors to cut because we were going to cut it out of the cylinders but now everything is loose this is a very sloping bottom so Dave slipped here again now he's coming back to the body and you can see check in making sure everything's right with his his time times getting short now the time is nearly to the point where he needs to leave okay good check all the time check in making sure he's okay working at the same time there's the line this is the line we worried about being loose and there it is loose okay now come to the end of our time now and it's time to leave Dave's decided he's going to leave at all on plan everything's right he's still working hard everything's right is leaving a long time working hard quick check make sure his gauges are right something seems to be stopping him now and he's caught in the line okay he's working hard trying to untangle himself and see the bank oh there he goes is moving on again now breathing very hard being quite difficult to do things could check on the gauge now those breathing would be getting quite heavy as he's trying to work his way out and slowly they've just started becoming coherent and then then he would stop but he was still moving out and he was still working right right up to the end and what he found was he got caught up in the line he was moving away the body and everything was actually telling behind him and he was he had to then try and untangle himself from that in a very restricted light position with a very very high sort of breathing rein and in basically succumb to all the pressures that you've got that sort of time and is breathing slowly faded and and Dave passed away you you

Channel: Engineering Mind

Views: 3,386,433

Rating: 4.7498703 out of 5

Keywords: David, Shaw, Last, Dive, Accident, South, Afrika]

Id: OVZ_XAXUWlw

Length: 21min 43sec (1303 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 30 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/H0agh]

Holy crap, this was hard to watch...

The parents especially.

[u/crackenbecks]

Body Retrievers like David Shaw as the secret heroes of families that have lost loved ones to the sea. Although this is quite old, i feel nothing but respect for the decisions this man has made that lead him to enable parents and friends to say goodbye to their passed child/friend.

[u/SpiroCircle]

I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to watch that at midnight but now I'm thoroughly spooked

[u/Crazed_Chemist]

Read a long piece on this last year, it was incredible. He was so set of retrieving the body, and the crew that was trying to assist had to spend hours on the ascent themselves knowing they'd left him behind and that he was already dead.

[u/webnetcat]

This is some quality material here. I am just unnerved of how quite he was to the very last moment... I watched a video how one Russian deep diver was dying and it was not that quite at all...those people are made of pure gold.