Instructor should first remember lesson one in grabbing regulator without covering purge button... in air exchange. If she is out of air she cannot purge because he is grabbing it like an egg instead of grabbing by hose. He should also teach her not to lose contact on regulator hand if they air exchange. She has to grab his hand and not let go unless she need to swap hands. If strong current they would be losing contact and she would be out of air while he would be gratuitously holding his regulator and also covering the purge.

Let's assume they went on to do the mask and fin exchange. Nice calm control for what was shown.

When I was16 & 17 I dove with Navy frogmen, UDTs stationed at Naval Stn Miami. There were single story abandoned barracks at the CG station in South Beach and my scout trp stayed there many times. I'd been diving since I was 14 (1963), and out asst scout mstr was starting a Sea Cadet unit and he dove with them. First question this Sam Elliot type asks me is , Do you bleed at depth? Well, back then everybody bled a little as there was no nose grooves on masks to relieve pressure on your ears, so you had to find a way, cracking your jaw, humming, holding breath and putting pressure on your nose and ears -- all dangerous, all potentially causing vessel rupture , of some kind and degree of seriousness. And if you bled continually, I'm talking just a tiny seep, in those waters it was highly dangerous.

Очень нежно!

We usually did it with fin and mask exchanges also in same test .. but great job.. very nice

WOW! No control of the regulator, 3 breaths pass, 3 breaths pass. Not this breaths until the other yanks it out of your mouth. The guy rarely breaths out, only on occasion, if they are heading for the surface he is toast. This two would not have passed the final pool tests for basic students that I Divemaster/Asat. Instructed for. We had Basic students swimming/crawling the perimeter of the pool with no fins, no mask tank under arm, while buddy breathing and both maintaining control of the regulator. Of course that was back in the 80's... And I will let you imagine what my Divemaster stress test was, when I worked for a US Navy Master Diver....

Hard pressed to be stressed when you’re kneeling on the bottom of a pool. This is a joke right? There’s so much wrong with this whole video. It doesn’t even qualify as a stress test. But it is a great example of what not to do in a shared air scenario.

the summit of dilettantism.

The male divemaster candidate handled the female open water student okay but his instructor really needs to get him to be doing these skills neutrally buoyant. Once she gets her full certification she'll just be kneeling on the reef any time she encounters a problem because that's how she was taught.

I do think this help the dive master to control her self in this type of situation but try doing that with a open water diver 🤣 he would rip that reg out of your mouth lol

Guess I wasn’t watching close enough I missed the stress part

Ouu man...this girl doesn't look so calm to me!!! in some occasions it can be seen that she is pulling gas very hard and that she can't wait for him to let the regulator out of his mouth. Just imagine that they were at sea and in a much deeper place..unfortunately, I think that this girl would experience severe panic!

I need to tilk to d dive master

Sorry! You’re not using my reg brother! Not in this day and age..this doesn’t look very stressful at all

I assume it’s both divers removing bcd and just using one reg is the test when there are three other regs to use, 2 tanks of air at about two metres that would last forever. I know what they are going for, I was training up to instructor a few years back and things happened. You need to think outside the box or if you want your PADI Cert do everything you are told to the letter.

What is dive club?

I Went on the Black Beard Sailboat/Diveboat when it was in Miami... The group went on a shark dive, about ten divers in a half circle, our backs to a coral reef about three feet from the diver next to each other. Dive was eye opening for my first dive. A guest divemaster was next to me so I felt super safe! After the dive, removing our rigs he PULLS OUT TWO CHICKEN BREASTS FROM DINNER OUT OF HIS BCD... AND SAYS "I WANTED TO GET SOME CLOSE UP PICTURES OF THE SHARKS!!!" WTF! I informed the ship's divemaster and she informed the ship's captain and pointed him out... the captain swore and just shook her head... lost respect for divemasters after that. I took a REC/TEC Course at Utila Dive Center in Honduras and ALWAYS DOVE DOUBLES REDUNDANCY with separate pony rig. Unless I knew my dive partner before I never drove with a partner.

How does this equate to a stress test? 😂

Failure. Do it again

Yeah and what about masks? Fins? What kind of DM stress test is this? This instructor needs a refresher course.

omg.. And that BS of constantly bleeding air...LOL.

They gave the second stage wrong, hold the cable!

this is odd, 1st off in a real situation you never let someone else control your reg. I get being comfortable without air in a controlled situation and being calm but this make no sense. There are other ways to achieve this with less risk, like scuba bail out or ditch and recover. which in my opinion are harder and takes more patience and control

That’s not stressful, it’s in a pool and when I did it, we were at sea and an instructor was always pulling my regulator out, taking my mask off, and inflating my bcd, as well as my buddy’s when we were doing it.

It's actually hard to focus on breathing through mouth when you normally breathe through nose

No mask exchange?

No time to be squeamish about germs when your life is on the line.

To everyone who thinks this is too easy id love to see you all try adding two more divers to the mix and do a four way exchange while using just one second stage. 🤭

Dcv

This is not a stress test, this is some padi bs excersise, to make you feel like you know something. Why would you ever perform this excersise, and if you were to, i dont think you would be able to perform this in trim, above coral reef, without using weight belts, since most divers use normal bcd integrated weigts. I bet they did not even teach them proper way to singnal equipment swap, they just told eachoder what is going to happen, and then it happened, no signaling. No point in teaching stuff like this. Breathing from one regulator is only usefull if you have multiple redundant fully separatable systems, since if one of your regulators fails, both of them fail, either free flow, loss of air or first stage malfunctioning, and if you were doing this, your buddy would be ooa, and one of your valves would be closed. So why do they just act like nothing happedned, when they end the excersise? What is the point in this, when you can't know, if the student/students can safely go to the surface. My point of wiew as a technical diver.

Lol what a joke. Padi training at its finest

In covid times are this still allowed ?

Its funny video, low knowledge instructor

"Stress tests" are a load of crap and totally unrepresentative of any actual skills you could be expected to perform as a modern divemaster.