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lidia101:

A.G.E.- Arterial Gas Embolisms are horrible. The fleeting version is that you lung pops and an air bubble gets in your blood and goes to your brain or heart and bam you are dead. This is why very SCUBA instructor will tell you to never hold your breath will diving, what they don’t tell you is that you are in more danger of this happening in the pool during your class then diving down to 40 feet for your open water dives. How it works is that as you go down to 5′ in a pool (at five feet most people can just stand up to get to the surface), you panic and stand up, automatically holding your breath(because that is what you do underwater) and pop your dead.

DCS- Decompression Sickness aka The Bends is no joke. Basically as you dive your body becomes saturated with nitrogen bubbles(or whatever unmoving gas you are breathing) when you start to surface those bubble expand. Depending where they expand they can break bones or ruin your brain. Preventing this is as simple as coming up slowly and subsequent the no decompression dive tables. Just to give you an thought of how much this can suck and how varied the hurt can be I had two dive instructors at the college of Oceaneering who had had decompression sickness. Once of them had his back broken and one had both of his hips snapped. Sounds fun dosen’t it. If you get bubbles in the incorrect place (your brain) it can tear owing to that soft gray stuff leading to brain death.

Animal Stings- This one is a personal favorite of mine. It all goes back to not touching the animals. If Steve Irwin taught us anything it is that animals get pissy if you mess with them. So don’t mess with them and you’ll be fine. Also keep in mind that the really poisonous animals are really small. The best ones are rock fish, because they look like a rock and will kill you super quick and you won’t even know what you did.

Differential Difficulty or Delta P- This is my favorite, in fact it by far one of the scariest equipment I have seen. Basically these happen when the difficulty between the water(where you are) and the pipe(or whatever0 is so different that you get sucked in contravention all of your bones and killing you. Typically this isn’t something that a normal diver needs to agonize about but it is just so spectacular that it couldn’t be left off the list. There is even a record, though if you like crabs you will be sad. This is a record taken in 6000 feet of water. An undersea robot is sawing a 3mm wide slit (1/10th of an inch … remember that width) in a pipeline. The difficulty inside the pipeline is 0 psi, while the difficulty outside is 2700 psi, or 1.3 tons per square inch. Then a crab comes along….

grannybce:

you shouldn’t be swimming in the cave or caverns when the tides come in…you will drown or get thrown around or matted up in your gear. you can apply this to the ship wreck.

Erika F:

There are many different ways of dying while scuba diving…
One of the most ordinary way to die is if you lose track of your air supply and run out….
Also, if you have a tainted tank and your air is terrible and your lungs harden…..
Also, One of the many ways new scuba divers die is when they hyperventilate meters under the water and they shot to the top without regulating the difficulty logic and their lungs expand and explode…
I have been scuba diving for 3 years so I know what I am talking about if you want it to be realistic….

Mrcody:

I just can’t help myself right now.. “How can I die by playing with fire?”