For two days I was part of the safety diver team, the underwater grip team, counsellor to a talent, for a commercial shoot for a Lebanese company. I was in-charge of the safety of namely the Malaysian talent, Brigette. There were two other talents, Francine from Brazil, and the main talent from Russia whose name I did not get.
On the first day we did rehearsals, mainly for the respective safety divers and their charge to have somekind of understanding on hand signals and safety. I did 8 dives on the first day that lasted from 10am through 9.30pm. We also assembled the scaffoldings underwater and moved them to the correct positions.
On the second day, we did more rehearsals while waiting for the shooting of the spa scene at another location to complete before the director could attend to our location. The day started at 8am. We only began shooting at nightfall to get the correct ambience. We wrapped up at 4.30am the next day, and I logged 20 dives (with lots of bounces). And remember, 20 dives means all dives were of 21 minutes or more, not including the bounces where I spent less than 5 minutes on the surface while assisting the talent I was in-charge of with safety.
It was a good experience, albeit a very tiring one. We divers finished up 3 bottles of 100% oxygen to minimise inner-ear decompression sickness or any other decompression sickness that may affect us due to the nature of the dives.
Many people forget that every dive, even those in pools, is a decompression dive.
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