Oso Trava recounts getting separated from his boat and lost for eight hours, and a near-fatal spearfishing accident at the Marías Islands where his buoy line tangled and pulled him underwater. He talks about staying calm in emergencies and teaching his kids to dive safely.
Eight hours.
The Marias Islands.
A buoy with a cable.
Why did they scold me? Because I got lost for eight hours. That's a good story. We were on a boat with some friends, and I went with my friend Fernando, and we took a dinghy and we went behind a hill, and the dinghy lost communication with the boat. And then the sea started to get rough and things started to get complicated. And then, well, the. The whole crew on the boat got worried because they couldn't communicate with us, and they got scared. And. And my friend Cash scolded me that time. Later, we made peace. Have you had any extreme experiences or anything different in your years of diving? We went to. It wasn't very extreme, but I was scared. We went. When you were diving, we were in the Marias Islands, which is a very remote place. And in fact, I was diving with Andres that day. And when I bring the harpoon, I always bring a buoy with a cable. And the other diver who was next to me brought another one, the same. But since the tide wasn't moving much, it started to come together. When there's no current, the buoys start to get tangled and the cables get tangled. So in one of those situations, the diver who was next to me, who was on the crew with us, also went down. And when he went down, my cable got tangled, but he was going down. When you go down, you go down hard, right? So he went down, and my cable got tangled, and I didn't realize it. And before I knew it, I was already being pulled by it. This. And. And. And in addition. In addition, a very remote place before, when it was. When it was a place when it was a prison and such. And I think that's the hardest part, besides a couple of sharks that came by. But I think that's been the hardest part. I think I've been responsible. I've tried to be very responsible, and I've taught my children to be very responsible with this sport. What does it give you? You say, uh, it's a sport that requires a lot of concentration, a lot. A lot of calm. What does it give you? No, well, it gives me everything. I mean, because it's a place where you have to concentrate on just one thing. And the most important thing, as you said, you have to be calm. And when I teach my children, it's very easy to say you have to be calm. But when you go into the ocean, you have all the variables against you. Yes, you. Number one, you have to hold your breath. You have to stay afloat. You can get hit by a swell, the water temperature changes. Suddenly right? Suddenly it's warm, suddenly it's cold and so on, right? So I think.
