"Shut off her air"

Dead diver – Breathplay at Lake Tahoe

Popular queries; “Shut off her air”: “Shut off her air” is an amazingly popular search query that brings readers to my blog along with search terms like: ballet boots, anal hooks, heavy rubber, encasement suits and bondage. But it is “shut off her air” that I want to write about in this entry because it’s not only a popular query, but also a very popular method of breath control. Certainly it’s popular with men in the fetish diving community (and some few women) but shutting off a partners air can also be used effectively for breathplay in other hazardous environments such as evacuated hyperbaric chambers and toxic gas filled rooms or chambers.

However, I want to write today about shutting off a woman’s air while she is wearing diving equipment and using it for SCUBA while submerged under water, as opposed to dry-scuba where she is wearing a FFM and breathing compressed gas through a demand valve while in bed or in some other location nowhere near water.

I think having my air shut off is such an elegant way of a partner temporarily dominating me by exerting maximum control over my life with minimal effort. I find it most effective when I’m on the bottom of a pool on my knees with the crotch zipper of my House of Harlot latex catsuit open and a well hung man (a maxi-male) thrusting inside me doggie style. He penetrates me from behind pushing deeper and deeper and as his thrusting gets me ever closer to orgasm by thrusting into the stretchy latex dome of my Reflexions gas guard I begin to come! Then is when he shuts off my air intensifying my orgasm unbelievably!

And, if I’m left submerged with my air shut off, if I’m not in restraints (just weighted to hold me on the bottom) , by adjusting my tank harness enough I can reach the valve and turn my air back on. I can hold my breath for about 2.5 minutes, so if he wants to stay inside me enjoying the afterglow after he gets off I’m really anxious to have him pull out and will contract my vaginal muscles to help reduce his size and force withdraw.

For other women having their air shut off can be anything from traumatic if they are novices to pleasurable if they are well experienced in breathplay. If a woman isn’t expecting a shutoff she could lose any breath she has by struggling, usually w/o success to get away from the man dominating her. She only has a minute or two before a lack of oxygen to her brain will begin killing brain cells. So breathplay by shutting off a diver’s air can be extremely dangerous and shouldn’t be done w/o rehearsing in shallow water how it will be done and agreeing on safe words or signs that the Sub can use if s/he wants to stop the encounter and have her air turned back on.

Dead diver: And no the girl in the image at the top of this entry isn’t dead. She was reenacting for friends what happened to Tina Watson during her honeymoon. On October 22, 2003 while diving with her husband off a dive boat on the Great Barrier Reef she sank to the bottom at 100 feet and died. The coroners report gave the cause of death as drowning. Her husband, Gabe, is serving a sentence in an Australian prison for contributing to her death.

An accident during discipline training: Adolph had an unfortunate incident the other week at his 200 ft deep discipline training facility. A 24 y/o Austrian Sub who had been sent for breathplay training panicked when her air was shut off during a training exercise at a depth of 20 feet. She was wearing a HydroGlove latex drysuit, which she had just been qualified to dive, and most of the air had been vented from it so she was a few pounds negatively buoyant and she was wearing no swim fins. When she panicked she pulled free of her minders and weighted down by her tank and weight belt which she couldn’t unfasten she began to sink. The air in her suit compressed as her depth increased decreasing her buoyancy so the deeper she went the faster she sank. Her minders did their best to reach her and saw her loosen her harness enough to be able to reach the valve and twist it to turn her air back on and the knob came off in her hand. Returning readers will remember that a HydroGlove has no inflation valve and she continued to sink. Without air the buddy-reg on her octopus was of no use to force air under a wrist seal to inflate her suit and she was in an uncontrolled descent. She had been breathing regular air (21% oxygen) and was at 140 feet when she pulled off her Interspiro FFM, probably in a fit of nitrogen narcosis and drowned.

It turned out that she had been sent to Adolph for disciplinary training because she was newly pregnant and wouldn’t terminate the pregnancy. She had what she thought was enough compromising evidence showing her Dom, an Austrian businessman, in some very unflattering candid pics that would keep her safe. Apparently she hadn’t thought her plan through enough to put copies of what ever evidence she had where it would be released if something happened to her. The incriminating evidence was on a flash drive she carried around in her purse.

Adolph had the Subs body cremated and sent it and the flash drive back to his Austrian friend by courier. His friend was very pleased. Adolph was pleased as well because he got an HD Snuff video out of the accident. He had set the cams to track the girl in her deflated HydroGlove as she sank and has a wonderful set of pics especially of the last 70 feet of her descent after she pulled off her FFM. The air inside her suit was at only one atmosphere and the surrounding water pressure on her HydroGlove crushed her chest cavity. You can see her ribs collapse, her chest flatten and her lung tissue being squeezed up her throat and forced out her open mouth. In Asia there is a huge market for Caucasian girls being crushed or drowning in dive accidents while in rubber encasement suits and this video will have both.

Honeymoon dive killer’s sentence increased

Tina Watson (back) in distress during the Great Barrier Reef dive she died on

From: The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) September 20, 2009 1:09AM

Scuba killer Gabe Watson faces death sentence

-Gabe Watson killed wife Tina while diving
-Out of Australian jail next year
-US officials will seek death penalty

HONEYMOON killer Gabe Watson could face the death penalty when he is released from an Australian jail and returns to the US. Alabama Attorney General Troy King yesterday announced he would go after Watson for a capital murder, the worst category of murder in the state.

If he is convicted, Watson faces death by lethal injection or life without parole.

The 32-year-old bubble-wrap salesman has admitted to killing his new wife Tina Watson who drowned as they explored the Great Barrier Reef on their October 2003 honeymoon.

In June, he cut a deal with Queensland prosecutors and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

He was sentenced to 4 1/2 years' jail, to be suspended after a year, in a decision that devastated Tina's family and provoked public outcry over its leniency.

Queensland Attorney General Cameron Dick appealed the sentence and the Court of Appeal on Friday ruled Watson should spend another six months in jail, which means he will be back in Alabama in December 2010.

Mr King said he was "deeply disappointed" by the outcome.

"Tina Thomas Watson and her family have been deprived by the Australian court system of the justice they deserved," Mr. King said.

Mr King had been considering hitting Watson with a murder conspiracy charge, but yesterday declared he would go for the more serious offence.

During a meeting yesterday, he ordered a team of prosecutors and investigators to compile a brief of evidence that will be presented to a grand jury for a capital murder indictment.

The presentation could happen within months.

If the 16-person panel agrees there is enough evidence to support a conviction in Alabama, he will be tried for murder. If convicted, a judge would decide whether to give him life in jail or condemn him to death.

Mr King said he hoped to give the family "what they could not get in Australia - justice".

But legal experts have expressed doubts that Watson could be retried due to double jeopardy rules.

Mr King would not say what piece of law allowed him to indict Watson in the US after his plea in Australia.

Tina's sister Alanda Thomas hoped he would stand trial.

"My sister, Tina, had her entire life taken from her by his actions and all he gets is 18 months in jail," she said.

"That is just a disgrace.

"Hopefully my sister will get her day in court and Gabe will finally stand trial for all he has done."

Verdict in 2003 Honeymoon SCUBA death

Tina Watson dead on the ocean floor in October 2003. Husband gets a year in jail for manslaughter


News.Com.au
Family believes Tina Watson's dive death was murder
By Christine Flatley
June 05, 2009 04:56pm

“The family of an American woman who died while scuba diving on her honeymoon still believe she was murdered, even after prosecutors accepted her killer's plea of manslaughter.

David Gabriel Watson, 32, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years' jail today after pleading guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to killing his new wife, Christina (Tina) while scuba diving in north Queensland in October 2003.He had been charged with murder, to which he pleaded not guilty, but Crown prosecutors accepted the plea to the lesser charge.Prosecutor Brendan Campbell told the court the manslaughter plea was accepted on the basis that Watson had failed in his duty as Tina's dive buddy by not giving her emergency oxygen.Outside court after their daughter's killer was jailed, Tina's father Tommy Thomas expressed the family's disbelief at the manslaughter sentence."I'm sure that the entire Australian nation as well as our country back home shares in the shock at what we've just seen, because it's a total injustice ... it's ludicrous," he said."Today he (Watson) was allowed to take the easy way out.

"This is in no way, shape or form a beginning to get justice for our daughter."It's an embarrassment to everyone involved."We believe that Gabe Watson murdered our daughter."Mr. Thomas, Tina's sister Alanda and friend Amanda Phillips flew from Alabama to Australia this week to be in court for Watson's sentencing.Watson's new wife, Kim Lewis, was also in court.During the hearing the court was told Watson allowed Tina to sink to the ocean floor without making any serious attempt to retrieve her, and that he did not inflate her buoyancy vest or remove weights from her belt."He virtually extinguished any chance of her survival," Mr. Campbell said.Watson married Tina in a ceremony described by her friends as her dream wedding in Birmingham, Alabama, on October 11, 2003.Eleven days later, a dive instructor found her lying on the bottom of the ocean during a week-long Great Barrier Reef scuba-diving trip off the coast of Townsville.A coronial inquest into her death heard a fellow diver saw Gabe Watson engaged in an underwater "bearhug" with his petite wife, after which the bubble-wrap salesman headed for the surface while his wife fell to the ocean floor.Coroner David Glasgow formally charged Watson with murder in June 2008 and the American voluntarily returned to Australia in mid-May 2009.The Supreme Court was told on today Watson was an experienced diver who had been trained in rescuing panicked divers.

Watson told police Tina had knocked his mask off and then had sunk too quickly for him to retrieve her.

But the Crown rejected this explanation, saying it would not have been possible for her to sink rapidly.

Mr. Thomas today said the family would consider lodging an appeal.

Watson will serve 12 months behind bars before he is released on a suspended sentence.”

One can only hope the other inmates use Gabe as a Boy Toy.

School of American Ballet students

The New York Times June 3, 2009
Dance Review School of American Ballet
With Each Youthful Step, Discoveries and Transformations
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Dancers on the cusp of professional careers can be an awkward batch. Typically heavy on energy and physical daring but light on experience and emotional depth, they require just the right sort of work, one that highlights their abilities while celebrating — or at least not ignoring — that they are only youngsters, still figuring themselves out as people, let alone artists.

There may be no better ballet for these purposes than “Serenade,” whose air of discovery, transformation and mystery belies its age. Balanchine choreographed it in 1934, the year that he and Lincoln Kirstein opened the School of American Ballet. On Monday night, at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, the school celebrated its 75th birthday with a gala wrap-up of its annual workshop performances. The Balanchine triple bill opened with “Serenade,” which was created during rehearsals with his early students.

Balanchine began, with those students, to forge a new American style of ballet. And “Serenade,” so redolent with untold stories and set to Tchaikovsky’s stirring, gathering score, is a ballet about beginnings. It is always exciting to see the curtain rise on a tableau of women who then morph into dancers; to see it done by students is especially thrilling. Their entire lives, virtually, have been pointed toward this goal, itself only a beginning.

On Monday Emilie Gerrity in particular shone in the Dark Angel role. Adam Chavis, who danced the waltz with the sparkling Lauren Lovette, seems well on his way to becoming a sure partner. But more captivating than any single performance was the ardor with which the members of the ensemble danced, hurling themselves through the air or to the floor, flinging arms around one another as only young girls do. (Credit must also go to the conductor Martin West and the rich, clear world created by his orchestra.)

Then came the very young, in the “Ballabile des Enfants” from “Harlequinade,” a colorful, confectionary swirl of polichinelles, pierrots and scaramouches, set to Riccardo Drigo. These dancers, 9 to 15, are in that happy period when bobbles can be as charming as rock-steady technique (though not for their eagle-eyed instructors). Yet this isn’t an exercise in cute. It makes clear how seriously Balanchine took children on the stage, and how his choreography pushes them just beyond what they think their limits are.

One of the best things about workshop performances is how the faculty members who staged these ballets (Suki Schorer, Garielle Whittle, Susan Pilarre) bow with their students. They congratulate their charges even as the audience acknowledges the teachers and the fact that the School of American Ballet is, first and foremost, a place of learning.

The night ended with “Stars and Stripes,” the consummate, and ridiculous, rousing closer in which Balanchine, responding to the Sousa score (adapted and orchestrated by Hershy Kay), channeled marching bands, cheerleaders and military maneuvers.

Angelica Generosa, just 15 and performing on two weeks’ rehearsal because of another dancer’s injury, was a fleet, sure-footed Liberty Bell, shining in the good and elegant hands of Taylor Stanley. He has a City Ballet apprenticeship awaiting him, and she, you suspect, along with many of her peers, will someday soon step into a future just as promising.

Comment: I made it into the production of Serenade during the Workshop my final year at SAB when another girl became injured. Not that I wasn’t a great dancer, I was and am, it’s that they said I was just too adventuresome for my own good.