Comments on: Diving Dahab: The Blue Hole and The Canyon https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/ Postcards from the Edge Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:54:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16453 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:51:14 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16453 In reply to Camels & Chocolate.

I think being able to see the top is a big part of it. At the point I panicked, I couldn’t actually see the top, while the bottom was, obviously, 900m below me. Interestingly, it also seems to have fed back into my land vertigo, which I thought I’d got under control. Got very, very wobbly on top of a minaret yesterday in a way that I haven’t done for many years.

Do you manage to get it to pass without grabbing onto someone?

]]> By: Camels & Chocolate https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16452 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:24:51 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16452 I’ve been a diver for six years now, and while I never had any panic attacks in the beginning, now that I’ve been battling general anxiety disorder for the past couple years, I have quite frequent experiences like you did when I dive these days. Usually, it goes away within a few minutes, but I have to have decent visibility and be able to see the top. The only time I’ve actually shot to the surface was in Honolulu last spring when I wasn’t properly weighted and got sucked to the top–it was frightening, but luckily I had no lung expansion injuries!

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16451 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:52:10 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16451 In reply to Jill.

Ah, that was the lovely Tamer who took the photos. Oh god, trust me, I was in no condition to be photographing bubbles, or doing anything, really. I might have engaged in a little random flailing, of course, but that would have been as far as it went…

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16450 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:51:13 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16450 In reply to Backpacker Deals Dave.

Blimey! I waited to decide I was sinking until I’d done the whole adjustment after coming out of the Bells and was a bit around the wall. I wasn’t, in fact. I was just freaking the hell out. But, yes, Tamer was definitely on the qui vive for me coming out of the Bells — presumably, folk start sinking all the time out there, because of the rapid descent in the Bells, then coming out onto the Wall.

Exhilarating — yes! You know what, I’d go with you on that? Even though, as I get vertigo on land, to get a full version underwater was, well, pretty pathetic…

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16449 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:48:44 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16449 In reply to Anthonee.

Thanks, Anthonee! The Red Sea is seriously amazing diving — highly recommended. And I think you would love Dahab, too.

And, if you head to Indo after Thailand, don’t miss Komodo.

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16448 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:47:44 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16448 In reply to jan.

Ah, the pesky button. The problem is you need to use it a little when you’re diving to adjust your buoyancy normally: you are not supposed to use it as an emergency ejector seat. It’s the blue one, normally….

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16447 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:47:04 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16447 In reply to wandering educators.

Thank you! Actually, all the underwater ones are Tamer’s… Which means the shadowy thing is me…

]]> By: Jill https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16446 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16446 I’m just amazed you maintained your inner calm enough to photograph the experience. I would have pressed the button….

]]> By: Backpacker Deals Dave https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16445 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:59:11 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16445 I was there a few years ago now, did my diving with Penguin divers. I remember well doing bells, trying not to smash my tank into the wall while descending rapidly face first. Then stepping out of the ledge into the deep blue and immediately beginning to sink. Thankfully the guide had gone first and immediately grabbed me before I sank into oblivion, although by the sounds of it, I’ve have more dives under my belt and would have immediately gone for the inflate button without hessitation and given it a couple quick bursts to stop the sinking and regain my buoyancy which I did anyway while Hamdy was holding me up. But that initial sense of vertigo when stepping out into the blue is exhilarating!
Also, Clownfish are Awesome.

]]> By: Anthonee https://www.escapeartistes.com/2012/03/25/diving-dahab-the-blue-hole-and-the-canyon/#comment-16444 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:29:04 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=6598#comment-16444 Beautiful pictures. Especially the bubbles. I love bubbles. I had the opportunity to dive in the red sea along time ago but never did. Now I have been diving all over Thailand i am kicking myself i never went.

One day, i shall return. One day.

Great post! Enjoyed!! 🙂

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