The Blue Hole in the Red Sea is the deadliest dive site in the world
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#2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYuMN206Jzo
Interview with Tarek Omar (the diver rescuer in the article) and location shot. Much better than reading the article.
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#3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYuMN206Jzo Interview with Tarek Omar (the diver rescuer in the article) and location shot. Much better than reading the article.
Though I'm sure it's a fascinating interview, I thought the article was really well-written and helpful. I really enjoyed the pace of it all.
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#4Summary: The Blue hole is a natural sinkhole off the coast of Egypt. It is very accessible, there are many beginners, and there are many unscrupulous dive guides which lead to diver depths.
Some basic diving rules which when broken lead to deaths:
- Not diving with a partner
- Diving below the depth you should be
- Diving after partying the night before
- Rising back up too quickly
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#5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYuMN206Jzo Interview with Tarek Omar (the diver rescuer in the article) and location shot. Much better than reading the article.
Though I'm sure it's a fascinating interview, I thought the article was really well-written and helpful. I really enjoyed the pace of it all.
You might also like this story about a dive in Boesmansgat: Raising the Dead[0]
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#6Narcosis is nothing to trifle with. After a particularly bad experience at 150ft on air, I understand why some agencies advocate for a maximum equivalent narcotic depth* of 100ft.
*For the non-divers out there, it’s possible substitute a less narcotic gas - typically helium but not always - for a portion of the narcotic gas in a mixture. Equivalent narcotic depth (END) is a way to equate a mixture’s narcotic effect to that of air at a given depth.
Re: The Blue Hole in the Red Sea is the deadliest dive site in the world
#7https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYuMN206Jzo Interview with Tarek Omar (the diver rescuer in the article) and location shot. Much better than reading the article.
The interview section is quite short; much shorter than that in the article. The documentary is fascinating regardless however.
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#8Re: The Blue Hole in the Red Sea is the deadliest dive site in the world
#9https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYuMN206Jzo Interview with Tarek Omar (the diver rescuer in the article) and location shot. Much better than reading the article.
The article was fantastic. It brought everything to life in a way video essays can't.
Video crushes your imagination. It's factual, and leaves little mystery. Well-written narratives are full sensory waking dreams that you populate with sights and sounds, something you can inhabit.
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#10Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Hole_(Red_Sea) Map: https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Blue+Hole/@28.5722712,3...
Here's some good diagrams that show the shape of the hole: https://web.archive.org/web/20080321024116/http://www.blueho...