I have been thinking about black outs lately and with the recent death of a diver (RIP Tom)
I thought it might be goon to know of any signs of a blackout may be close.

Will you feel heavy or light headed?
Can it still happen when surfaced breathing through your snorkel?
Do symptoms change from person to person?

I have come up from a drop and felt light headed and abit out of it,
Was I close to blacking out?

Thanks

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Paddy i didnt know what the f$%k was going on when i had a little episode in Tahiti, i was all there in my head but my body was shaking and i couldnt control anything. Lucky my partner ( guy wood ) was on the ball and held me up. I pushed myself to my limit and nilly learnt the hard way.

Murry, sounds like you had a samba. when i come down to melb next weekend ill bring down a dvd the north shore club put together and they have said is ok to get passed around. The dvd is all about sambas and blackouts, its eye opening and some of the footage is chilling but i believe every spearo needs to know this stuff. Who should i get it too so it makes it to the next meeting for viewing?

its probably been linked before - but the content of this video really sticks in your head. make sure to watch the whole thing - it could save yours or a mate's life

courtesy of sydney freedivers website.

http://www.sydneyfreedivers.com/index.p ... :frontpage

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EVERYONE should watch that vid!
Goes for half an hour but answerd alot of my questions!

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Claire
in case he doesn't contact you first, get in touch with our club president Clint (alias Cdog on the forum)

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Paddy you would benefit from doing a free dive course.. the Theory and skills will help you heaps, just from watching you dive the other day your technique has a lot of room for improvement.

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Answers will now be $1.00
Answers with thought $2.00
Correct answers $4.00
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Yeah Tyson is spot on..
Stage A Freediving course with Apnea Australia. Not a cent wasted, I gained so much from the few days of that course and realized how dangerously I was diving prior to the course.. I highly recommend doing it, you will dive deeper, safer and more comfortably afterwards!!

thanks for the offer claire but i wont be going to the next meeting, if it was ok and i pay, maybe you could post it to me and ill show it at the january meeting? totualy upto you though.

Yes it was a samba, NZ boys like to call it the fucky chichen . scared the crap out of me at the time, mind you we were diving 25m + every dive so its bound to happen.

Cheers for sharing this link. Well worth watching.

Haha sure you don't mean "Funky Chicken!"

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Like a farken underwater ninja!

The fish were blinded by overexposure to his pure awesomeness!

Wouldn't that be funky chucken

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Opps was watching Extreme Tube when i wrote that you new what i meant..

Roughly how much does a free diving course cost?

$400-700 depends on whos in the area