Diving Accidents. Blue Hole Tragedy Footage Taped by Yuri Lipski, hosted by DivingAccidents.net Russian guy was Professional Diving Instructor. He come to Dahab with 80kg scuba diving equipment. He was infatuated of Blue Hole, the maximum depth there are 190 meters deep. He had a wife and two sons. A famous and videotaped death in the Blue hole is Yuri Lipski, a Russian diver who died at 91.6 meters below the surface. Lipski was, tragically, an unfortunate victim of inexperience and lack of proper equipment. When diving on standard air at a depth of 90 meters, the narcosis will be so severe that a person can lose all survival instinct. There have been cases reported where people have been so narced as to remove the regulator from their mouth and offer it to a fish. In the video it is possible to tell when the regulator falls out of his mouth (or possibly taken out due to narcosis) and subsequently he drowns. So far in 2009 two more divers have been killed diving the Bell and Blue Hole area (both in May). Learn more about Blue Hole http

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