Captain Nemo

Ok, are there any divers out there that have seen this movie? I just saw it last night and I could totally relate to it. My wife and I were on a dive in Maui, and we got caught in an underwater current on the back side of Molokini. We surfaced over a mile away from the dive boat and were floating in the water for about a half-hour until the dive boat captain located us.

The movie brought back that feeling. I loved the movie....

sherpahigh

Shit... I'm a diver and I cannot imagine how it would feel to be floating around like that miles from anything. The closest I ever came to anything like that was on a night dive, the whole group was together, but the current took us of course and we ended up surfacing about 100 or so yards from the boat.

I thought the movie was well done, I'm just sorry that I took my wife to it since it's gonna be hard to get her back into the water after seeing that.

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Porkchop

I have a friend, who does offshore diving this movie a lot of these relate to said if you were in that sort of situation. Frightening.

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Omg, that's horrid to hear. Did they not warn you about currents there? Most dive boats know how the waters the dive in work , especially at a place as popular as Molokini. Isn't the backside drop know to have lots of sharks? Glad you made it out ok. :shiver:
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Captain Nemo

Yeah, the captain warned us about the currents, but I got disoriented when I kicked away from the back wall. The swell on the backside was huge that day, so they said to kick away from the wall. Well, we started moving away when we were about 120 feet down, and the gradual ascent we made, the angle of our assent and the current pushed us farther out than I anticipated. As for the sharks, they were mostly gray tipped reef sharks and they hung out on or near the wall, so we didn't see any on the surface. Now humpback whales, that's another story. One breached about 100 yards away from us, and the whale song was so loud it kind of hurt.

Fremen

So, don't divers have personal locator beacons now?

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MexicanOnABike

sorry for anyone who liked it but i have to say this.
woste fucking movie ever!
it was complete shit! bad acting, back camera, bad quality, and no ending, etc..... no special effects.... i can't believe i payed to see it... DO NOT WATCH IT EVEN IF IT"S FREE! don't say i didnt warn you! fucking peice of shit movie. there... i'm done.

I actualy wanted the sharks to get them after the 1st 10min in the water.

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DDDDave

I'm a diver and I don't want to even see that movie. The only thing worse would be to run out of air in a cave. But at least that would be your own fault. Getting left by the dive boat would be *insert CNS shiver here* !

I was on a drift dive in a Cozumel when a couple of honeymooners decided to just camp out on the reef instead of drifting with everyone else. 30 minutes later everyone surfaces, we do a head count.... 2 short..... the captain just heads in to shore. He says 'No worries senor, one of the other boats will pick them up'. We were all on the beach doing our surface interval and another boat comes along and drops the oblivious couple off. Shhheeeesh.

Another time I was captaining while my buddies did a drift dive off Palm Beach. The wind was blowing three times as strong as the current and by the time the dive was up we (me and the boat) were a good 1/2 mile down stream of the divers. I was pretty wide-eyed by the time we hauled ass back up current to find them floating in their BC's.

Did you guys ever read the story about the father-son divers who were diving one of the U-Boats off North Carolina? Long story short-they got narced, they freaked out and bolted, Dad died, son bent for life.

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Nikilidstrom

While the movie itself was, imo, not that great, it did hit on one of my irrational, but very primal, fears of a shark attack, and I found myself white-knuckling the arms of the seat more than once. While being lost on a dive would be enough to make me fill my pants, the first sight of a shark would be all it would take for me to do myself in with that knife that the guy had. Being eaten alive just isn't my bag.

warrrreagl

Just saw a network newsmagazine show about the Lonergans, and how most experienced divers in Australia believe they disappeared on purpose, and survived. Very interesting show.

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Captain Nemo

warrrreagl, saw the same show and they had some interesting points, like how the gear all washed up in a centralized location relatively unharmed. However, if you wanted to disappear, it seems like there would be a hell of a lot easier way to do it.