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Originally Posted by Combat Diver
All about over coming fear.
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Our class had one medical washout. One of my OCS classmates found out he had extreme allergy reactions to Portaguise Man-o-war on an open ocean freedive.
He came up under the jellyfish and several of us were in the water watching. It hit him about 8ft from the service. He was very fortunate we grabbed him and had him in the boat in seconds. He didn't blackout but was effectively immobilized. He had some nasty tentacle marks on his neck around the jugular vain area.
The others that dropped from ocean fear and claustrophobia.
I didn't have a problem,, BUTT when we did the 1st lock-out from the sub at 60ft. it was in some ridiculous depth 3500ft?? an old gun range South-East of Key West. The water was crystal clear. It seemed like you were doing a HAHO jump at night from a bazillion ft.
76 started, 11 graduated
Wishing good luck to your son..