The Sad Story of How Yuri Lipski Was Trapped at the Bottom of the Ocean

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Yuri Lipski was a russian scuba diver who decided to dive the Dahab Blue Hole in the year 2000. After incorrectly calculating his weight belt he sank to the bottom of the ocean and quickly began to suffer from nitrogen narcosis and oxygen toxicity which slowly poisoned him on the ocean floor.

Scuba diving is a dangerous past time when done incorrectly and as a Thalassophobia sufferer I don’t recommend it, however if you arent plagued by thalassophobia and are determined then watch Yuri Lipskis story and be aware of the dangers of this risky past time. Enjoy your scuba diving, but enjoy it safely.

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42 thoughts on “The Sad Story of How Yuri Lipski Was Trapped at the Bottom of the Ocean”

  6. For experts out there, at what time of the video do you think Yuri was attempting to go back but was already out of control? I don't understand much, but my guess is that it happened around 17 : 06 : 06 , just as he passed the last diver – seems like at this point he is at the limit of his depth and that he is starting to sink quite fast from that point on, with no means to reverse the process. To me it seems that it is just about where he tried to slow down his fall but couldn't.

    Seems at 17: 05: 30 he is at the surface, so that would be 30-40 seconds of sinking before he gets to be way too deep and with no one around.

    At 17: 05: 55 ( it is visible the other diver is floating, slowly swimming up and Yuri goes down past him quite fast. I think at this point he already knows he is in trouble.

    At 17: 06 : 06 he must be already past the recommended depth for oxygen diving and sinking faster. Wheezing sound can be already heard at this point. He seems to be slowing down for a moment, maybe holding on to the wall and trying to get back up, in the next 20-25 seconds I believe he was struggling to stop the sinking and go back up but couldn't.

    Around 17: 06 : 30 he continues falling – seems to be already way out of his depth, the water is dark. It's only downwards from there.

    At 17: 07 : 00 surely there's no chance of survival.

    At 17: 08: 30 – a whole good 90 seconds later, Yuri looks at his wrist computer which shows 81.7 meters depth.

    That's my theory as someone who never dived, I am interested in what more experienced people have to say. That would mean the diver took only 25 seconds to reach his limit, perhaps too quick and then it takes just another 10-15 seconds before he is already in serious trouble. By the next 15 seconds he is losing his grip and starts falling. In just under a minute from the surface his dive has gone already terribly wrong.

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  7. A couple of corrections, he seems to have stopped descending at 87m or so. Oxygen in compressed air becomes toxic past 100m, and it takes a while. Mediterranean red coral divers would go as far as 120m for short periods to harvest the largest specimens and could feel oxygen toxicity creeping in, prompting them to ascend. Of course a lot of them never came back because they overestimated their capabilities, but I still know one who's alive.

    Nitrogen narcosis is not painful, it's extremely disorienting and confusing, some people get symptoms earlier than others, and regular diving at sufficient depth (i.e. scuba instructors who do wreck dives at 50-75m in the south of France for a whole summer for instance) increases the nitrogen tolerance dramatically, the tolerance takes a week or two to build up. Speed of descent is a factor for tourist divers, taking them slowly to 35m is no problem, going down like a cannon ball will trigger narcosis for the tourists.

    Yuri likely felt somewhat confused, but not entirely since he tries to fill his BCD, and probably cold, his death might have been rather peaceful, drowning while under the influence in cold water. In any case, condolences to his family.

    Also, the video shows Nitrox tanks, they're used for shallower dives not exceeding about 35-40 meters generally, oxygen percentage is increased to around 35% while proportionally decreasing nitrogen, to combat post diving fatigue and reduce decompression time. For deeper and longer dives, trimix or heliox are the norm.

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  8. I feel no sympathy he was an arrogant shit and paid the price. He was not qualified and after badgering many diving groups to take him there one finally gave into him, took him out and that was that. It's not a sad story but a warning; know your limits.

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  15. I feel like there should be one more type of diving. Rescue diving, they aren’t challenging themselves for a new best and they aren’t taking cool pictures with a buddy.

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  19. I’ve signed up to your patreon just to give my support and appreciation!
    I love your content, and you explain things simple enough for somebody like me (not very bright)🤣.
    I hope you continue to upload and grow your channel, you deserve more subs😊🙌🏼

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  20. Divers ignorant of chemistry are doomed to die due to ignorance. Same as climbing a mountain. If you are not prepared, you will be helpless. Nature is unforgiving.

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  21. Yall i went skydiving just to say i did it. And while i was in the air, already strapped onto my person i TRIED backing out. 😂😂 did the jump. But ill never do it again. I am not a thrill seeker. I dont get adrenaline from doing scary shit that plays with my life. I know im not invincible 😂. But i had Only went because a big group of my friends were and they kept bothering me to the point i just went along. Now i have more of a backbone in me, you cant get me to go anywhere unless its the store 😂 or work.

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  30. Well made vid about real and unfortunately accident, thx for making it! It will hopefully help to prevent future divers to be less careless and more cautious…RIP Yuri!

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  32. It’s a hard lesson a lot of us learned many times especially in the sea you get only one chance. I don’t cave dive or snorkel I spearfish, that being said last time I broke a rule it nearly cost me my life. I dropped a knife and knew it was deep enough to where with the given amount I had of oxygen would of been a difficult dive alone to retrieve my blade. I overestimated my skill and dived for it, I easily reached it and started going for the surface. Just then a California kelp wrapped around my belt goggles and even snorkel, I was trying to untangle myself and a few seconds in I realized I wouldn’t make it in time. I decided to bolt to the surface, by the time it ripped off my googles and snorkel. I couldn’t see where I was going nor the right direction, with my eyes closed i oriented myself towards the surface and kicked my heart out. Swallowing gulps of water I thought it was my last dive, just when I started blacking out I breached the surface. I never took safety as serious as I did till then and even then I was cautious. Just shows no matter how many times you dive one lax in protocol can cost your life.

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  39. Omg 9:20 is so painfully wrong. Higher pressures don't compress the molecules themselves! They reduce the average distance between molecules.
    And a higher number of molecules per volume (i.e. a higher pressure) leads to an increase in the nitrogen (or gas in general) concentration in fluids, e.g. blood and lipids, and tissue (which consists mostly of water and lipids as well).

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  40. Wow, there's more: At 12:58 he didn't realize his rate of descent was too high. He wanted to do a bounce dive (as correctly pointed out at 4:33) and go deeper quickly at this point (That's what a bounce dive is: quickly down to potentially break one's personal depth record, then up again – quickly, in order to reduce decompression time and save gas). Had he tried to reascend at that point (12:58), he would have turned upright. But he was pointing downwards from that point on and the whole time (more than 2 minutes from this point in the video) until he hit a ledge at ~90 meters. That's when he tried to acquire positive buoyancy for the first time by inflating his BCD: In the original video at time stamp 17 : 09 : 00 he adds gas to his BCD and _for more than 3 seconds_. The short bursts before are definitely not intended to give him positive buoyancy, just the regular buoyancy adjustments during descent (and btw way too little for a controlled descent).
    13:50: He didn't ditch his weight belt. Tarek Omar (the diver who retrieved his body) found him with his 12 kg belt still attached. Dumping his belt, once he realized he couldn't achieve positive buoyancy via his BCD, would have actually saved him (minus 12 kg for a regularly-sized person results in positive buoyancy in any situation in which neutral buoyancy was had at the surface (which was the case)). But he was heavily narc'd at this point (90 m on regular air) and getting worse. I'm also pretty sure he wasn't panicking – his breathing was calm the whole time, even when he uncontrollably rolled down the slope. The squeaking noise that can be heard sometimes is not him gasping for air, it's a noise some regulators make sometimes. It can be heard throughout the dive, even at the start.

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  41. 🇬🇧 Im so much of a Thalassaphobe that I panic in heavy rain!
    No Kidding! I cant even put my head under the shower because
    I start to hyperventilate

    Ive always been this way & its awful on summer holidays as im terrified to go into the sea
    & worse so, in a swimming pool!

    I cant stop the physical reactions of fast breathing, heart pounding, skin prickling, shaking
    Limbs!
    Ive had hypnotherapy which was useless, no device or tricks or psychological evaluations to my predicament worked!
    The fact that i worked in Psychology either hampered or harmed my breakthrough.

    Its an awful thing to have this fear, there are many people who have it to a more or lesser degree!
    I was even told the best way was for me to go with a competant swimmer & allow myself to partially drown, therefor facing what was the crux of my fear..

    I was almost persuaded to throttle this person for suggesting this method! Would they resuscitate me from a heart attack from my " drowning" ?

    Alas Alack im still confined to beach or poolside during holidays although over the decades i can paddle in the shallows without too much angst… !

    Thanks for your video
    Peace
    🇬🇧👧

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