Comments - First Person Footage of Yuri Lipskis Fatal Dive
category: Accidents | views: 66894 | posted on: 05/13/2007
What's more disturbing? Capturing your own death at the bottom of the sea or a bunch of people gathered around watching it 20 years later?
nightprowler [ban] | May 13 07 : 5:07am
I was waiting for those aliens from the Abyss to rescue him and bring him on board the mothership.
Alien Autopsy [ban] | May 13 07 : 5:36am
Can someone explain what happened? What kind of dive was it?? I vaguely remember something about , I think they are called Free Divers, but not sure.
He wasn't a free diver. He had a tank on. Free divers dive without a tank or any other air supply.
Remember when they said he had his regulater out of his mouth? A regulater is the device that delivers the air from your tank to your mouth so that you can breath. So he wasn't a free diver.
He was very deep. after you go past about 175 feet the pressure causes the nitrogen in your bloodstreem to turn into nitrox-oxide, that's laughing gas. you become disorientated and behave as if you are intoxicated. Some divers have been known to remove the regulater from their mouth and offer it to a passing fish. It is a very bad situiation to be in when you are that deep under water. I would bet that's what happened to him. I don't know who he was but if he was a pro diver he should have known better.
I'd say that having it posted on the internet and watched by a few thousand people tops both those, Scott.
(Especially when those few thousand people are clueless about diving, and critical of him for not doing what the people watching the video know he should be doing.)
shock_wave [ban] | May 13 07 : 1:23pm
Poor guy...fucking water...im gonna dedicate my life to building dept charges from now onw.
TheNilesEdge [ban] | May 13 07 : 1:49pm
I hated hearing his stiffling and grunts. This was far more disturbing than most other things I've seen.
sventhecommie [ban] | May 13 07 : 3:01pm
that was the only thing i couldnt watch entirely that was upsetting more like that please?
GreasyBeest [ban] | May 13 07 : 3:18pm
Yeah..drowning has to be one of the worst ways to die..in my opinion. 
RatherBdead [ban] | Jan 4 08 : 6:23pm
GreasyBeest-drowning is reasonably quick and painless there are many worse ways to die.Infact drownig is just suffocation.On breathing your first mouthful of water your epiglottis closes and stops water from entering your lungs.The water doesn't kill you, just the lack of air.Fairly quick and amiable I think.
I know how it´s in the deep end in the pool at 15 feet, i can´t in my wildest dreams imagine how it´s down at 282 feet. Poor, poor man.
I think the inflatable "lifejacket" that divers wear had a malfunction and the rapid desent made him disoriented and he didn´t know what was up or down, and i can only imagine the incredible pressure from the water, it´s crushing him and the icecold darkness. Poor man...
I'm PADI certified to dive to a hundred feet, and that's as deep as I'd ever want to go. I'm really only comfortable to about 55 feet, although I did a hundred foot dive for certification. This poor guy did 30 meters, a depth way beyond recreational diving. Many things can and do happen past even 80 feet, including possible nitrogen narcosis, a malady that is hard to explain but which effects ones physical and especially mental capabilities, you tend to feel drunk or high and may tend to attempt things you wouldn't normally attempt...one may become unaware that what he/she is doing is very dangerous....risks may be taken without much thought of safety measures. He also decended very fast for some reason, which makes any problems such as equalizing the air pressure in ones ears quite difficult or impossible. I don't know what all really happened here, why he didn't drop his weight belt and make a controlled emergency assent or why he decended so quickly to begin with. But for those of you not familiar with diving, maybe what I've written herein will shed some light on this sad event.
(Hamlet)
My initial thought is that he had some sort of seizure early on, and that started a downward spiral to his eventual death. Coming out of a seizure is rough enough just laying on solid ground, much less if you're scuba diving with weights on. You have no idea who or what or where you are.
Raziel_1862 [ban] | May 13 07 : 8:13pm
What a crappy translation. I was waiting for the line "All your base are belong to us" 
First they started in shallow water, maybe the first couple of seconds is from an earlier dive. I don't know much about diving but I think there is a recomended daily limit on your time under, and perhaps he exceeded it causing problems.
It also occured to me that maybe he had an unknown brain aneurysm and the rapid increase in pressure caused a stroke rendering him incapable of an appropriate reaction.
malecat could be right on the nitrogen narcosis. It is a most common cause of diving problems, however I thought that it only happens after a rapid ascent, not decent (SP). The nitrogen in the compressed air builds up in the blood stream, under pressure in the water it isn't that bad. But as one rises towards the surface the preasure decreases and the nitrogen expands in the body. But I'm not a diver so I could be wrong.
At any rate very sad. Poor guy. Fire and Water for me are the worst ways to imagine dying. 
Not as advanced diver as malecat but I have my advanced diving license and have dived quite a bit. One thing that stands out is that he just kept descending all the time. Any experienced diver knows that what you are actually doing when diving is going against the natural flow of things by sinking.Buoiyancy is not natuaral and has to be achieved.Its as easy as anything to surface and this is the biggest danger as you can surface to quickly and blow your lungs out. The dive belts that you wear are as easy to release as an aeroplane safety belt and to inflate your BC is just a push of a button to release air into it. As for narcosis or narcing , he seemed to aware for this. When guys narc they do become so "high" they spit out their regulators etc. and float around on a buzz and generally sink. I`m pretty sure if this had happened he would have drowned way earlier.Can`t really explain what happened here but what a shitty way to die 
Muyst agree with malecat though on the equalizing and clearing the air from your ears. If you don`t do this it is extremely painful and I`m pretty sure he would have been screaming in pain. I tried to dive with a cold once and could`nt descend cause my passages were blocked. 
Jimmy Potts [ban] | May 14 07 : 1:16am
holy shit, look at around 4:35 or so in the top left corner. it looks like something is eating him. and why was all of his stuff breaking apart from this "sand" attack. there is something down their like a shark or a demon.
he was narced
he was trying to do a bounce dive to 90m on air stupid bastard.
lots of divers i know just want to go deeper and deeper. you to try to go to 90 on air on your own is fuck idiotic. it's easy to get narced beyond 30m on air and on his own no one would have been there to spot him. spit you reg out drown a minute later.
diving the best but its dangeroue if you don't know what your doing, and never dive alone.
cam_723456 [ban] | May 15 07 : 1:52pm
It didnt make any sense they say he died then why the fuck would he still be holding the camera and how did he get hurt?!? 
I don't understand what he was thinking. If he was a professional diver he should have known better than to have gone that deep on air. If he was a pro I doubt he would have had a problem equalizing. Besides, if he did have that problem theres no way he could have gone anywhere near that deep. They said his reg was out of his mouth. I would bet a lot of money he was suffering from nitrogen narcosis. The only other explaination for this is if he wanted to kill himself.
Think about it, I'm just a sport diver and I know enough to not go that deep, hell no reasonably intelligent sport diver would go much past 65 or 70 and even then they wouldn't stay there very long. No, if this guy was a pro I believe he may have wanted to take his own life and thought that would be a good way to go.
RatherBdead [ban] | Jan 4 08 : 6:13pm
No sympathy!Any human that wants to behave like a fish deserves his fate.Humans should stay on dry land and behave in accordance with our body design.Another fool joins my friends on the left. 
Shibman1103 [ban] | Mar 20 08 : 1:47am
+3
What the hell is wrong with you? That man died and you go on some stupid rant about "humans should stay on dry land"? what, to be funny or sound cool? Drowing is not a good way to die..its not because of the pain its because the average human has about 45-60 seconds before they black out from oxygen deprovation...and that feels like an eternity when you are fighting for your life...I almost drowned when I was 10 yrs old and its not like the movies. There is no "inner peace" its the pain of being alone and knowing you are going to die. Grow the fuck up.
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red_ramage [ban] | May 13 07 : 4:48am
I've seen a ton of videos with people getting fatally shot, mauled by lions, falling to their deaths, etc. For some reason, that was a lot harder to watch then many... gives me the creeps.