haha - good one :)

God bless

Hahaha

lmao

😀😀 nice weather ...

Reuben Jensen fr

Just got my OW cert and I can confirm, literally every issue was mentioned in the textbook, in the videos, and tested multiple times on paper, in the pool, and in OW.

Your right, he meant to say nothing I learned or remember from the textbook helped me

And now the are all gonna be dive masters. Great

@@ricardocruz4235 people like to believe they were in a life critical or life saving incident and got out of unscathed, it boosts their ego, and rightfully it should, but when people's life critical or life saving ordeal was created by their own ignorance, carelessness, or recklessness it makes them look like (pardon the harshness) but idiots, or completely unprepared. You don't get credit from fixing the problems YOU created....remember that people... If the problem was totally uncontrollable and you had no part in creating it and you solved it then yes, you deserve the credit. This video should be a reminder to people of how quickly things can escalate and if these people were more experienced, would not have got past issue 1 or 2 and snowballed into a near life changing incident...

But in australia they go down

@@JackyDacky 😂😂😂

Seems like some of these people go so deep they get narced and are too delusional to even realise they need to stop going down

@@TheAnnoyingBoss oh definitely a possibility

@@JackyDacky 😆😆😆

"chimpdongs" 😂😂

Thank you . Well said

Also split fins are a little shit in my opinion. Waseem was bound to have trouble he put those janky things on 😂. Granted their inability to generate substantial power allowed the instructor to catch up to him while he was making a break for the surface so maybe they were a blessing in disguise?

sounds like you have been quality diving for a while, nice recap of mistakes. i just got my license last month, have done one dive with no instructor and am very gratefull that my diving buddy is overly cautious. we had nearly zero visibility and were as deep as alowed (18 m) , I had trouble with buoyancy because I couldn't see the bottom untill I touched it, but we stayed together and didn't panic, checked air, turned around and at a lesser depth with more to see had an enjoyable dive then finsihed with reserve in the tank...LISTEN TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS! We were given instructions on how to avoid this whole scenario step by step. I know I am still green, but I just can't understand how they could forget the basics...future dive masters...really?

Someone checked a monitor once. He looked at it, anyway. 😂

Seriously, why would someone knock out a mouth piece?

Hahahahahah

😂

Lol.

Good thing he's dead.

If he did that to me i would do the same to him and hold hes arms for few seconds so he really panics and then he will realise how fun it is next time he think of doing it to other peoples diciplin for those people

bing bong it’s not necessarily dangerous per say, but the regulator should definitely be serviced

Kader is that you? haha

I'd be freaking out too 😂

@@non_brewed_condiment I'm watching a random diving video at 2 am only to find kader in the comments? no way it's really you! lmao

@@brianaxb9429 Who is Kader?

I feel like Nikki didn’t really do her job on this dive.

Waseem useless ass didn’t do shit

You forgot Waseem 'the one who nearly died' 🤣

When he was panicking nikki just went 🤷🏽‍♀️

@@jfisher80020 yeah you saw that?

lol! true

+Horacio Hidalgo all they needed was the circus music and they would have a pretty funny video

+steve nunya totally!

+steve nunya totally!

hahahaha true

Very well said. I am just a scuba noob but what terrifies me is that group are all on their path to DM.

Thank you for writing this.

I think this is spot on. From the very beginning, the instructor failed to exercise any real guidance or control. And his reaction when the problem occurred was grossly negligent. I found it difficult to discern any difference in behavior between the instructor and the students.

looks like someone certified to 60ft took his buddy's diving!

Wayne Morris I'm scared of the open ocean and have zero diving training. But as I watched video I thought the same why if he didn't know up from down did he not abort dive and everyone was spread out to far. And that panicked diver should have got out of water he is a liability to all of them. And the mouthpiece hit out if the divers mouth what that about if you could let me know. Was he mad?

Best way to deal with panic is to prevent it.

You don’t need much experience to get certified in this very dangerous field. Ironic as shit.

I never panic

@Terri Caton Art Yuri was not that experienced.

@@denissssss8579 Here's a cookie 🍪

Lloyd Dehn 😂

How dare you insult Dunkin Donuts THIS much...

@@flipnotrab Thats funny!😁

7 11

🤣🤣🤣

errrr... the answer is obvious.... hahahaha

Coz he’s an idiot. I don’t even dive.

Because they had no idea what to do honestly :(

because they had crap instructors and should have never been in the water doing a deep dive until they were squared away.

@Charles exactly. If I remember correctly burst eardrums are fucking painful. He could've been in do much pain his brain decided to stop working

LOL!!!!

EXACTLY

Lmao i had to look twice.🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Even if those were 3 pounders, do you think he had enough of them? Geez! He was carrying enough weight for everyone...

@@TheWarrenhulk They are 1 pound each. He's probably wearing 7mm suit, maybe even a long john or second suit underneath, because it's quite cold in Cape Town area. Ok, he's not a big guy, so might be overweight, but not like an anchor.

Indeed. They did everything wrong!

That and paying attention to the confined water training. We don't teach the class because we like powerpoint presentations. That "textbook bcrap" is the knowledge that becomes the foundation to act appropriately (as Bradley stated). To put in non-diving terms, watch Apollo 13 -- the reactions of the astronauts (as portrayed in the movie) was based on the info they learned in the classroom.

Bradley, that's exactly what I thought. Whilst it's true that a textbook cannot *really* teach you how to deal with panic (which is an issue in many diving incidents), a textbook can teach you how to follow good principles, many of which do not seem to be adhered to in this dive/video.

You are joking right?....i REALLY hope your joking

OMG! I sincerely hope not -- but if he is, we hope he learned some valuable lessons of what NOT to do so that he can pass on what he obviously did not learn or know on the above video. Dive training with a proper instructor for as many dives as it takes BEFORE attempting what they did above is imperative. Pool training is necessary, I remember my dive instructor had us do MANY things that were not in the books (IN THE POOL) BEFORE we even attempted a open water dive and even then, we were one-one-one with an instructor in the open water. The above video showed an absolute disaster IMO!!

+CH Foster everything you said is thumbs up! its a shame that videos like this get nearly 1/2 million likes when videos portraying the joy in diving don't come close.

+CH Foster This was defenitely a Buoyancy problem.. if he was balanced enough, he would have been able to float with his breathing, not by acting like a flappy bird all the time.. The instructor should have seen that!

+Darren Linderman Couldn't agree more my man.

+CH Foster -- I agree that this dive was a real cluster fark! Burst and ear drum and keep on diving with vertigo! And all that skulling and flapping around! I hope the certifying agency for the open water instructors involved reviewed this.

+CH Foster Right, these guys are dangerous. Hard to believe the instructors let them out of the pool.

"Nothing you can learn from a textbook could prepare us for this" is the most shit sentence i could have seen. Yes it cant prepare you for the panic but it has everything you need to do. Unconcious diver? THE OPEN WATER TEXTBOOK HAS THAT, the texbook says take long deep breaths, which op wasnt doing, the textbook says to equalize very often. which the dive instructor didnt do. It also say if you feel discomfort or panic end the dive. If you feel discomfort or pain in ears stay where you are or go a little up and equalize. Thats how you dont pop a eardrum. Also something the dive instructor didnt do. The texbook has everything they need to know. They just ignored it

Drhuv makes a great point about equalizing. But there is an even more basic problem. When you get in the water, you don't descend immediately. You are to inflate your BC and stay on the surface and wait until your buddy or entire dive crew are in the water, floating just like you are. And THEN only begin the descent once everyone is sorted out in the water. You do your final safety check of your regulator etc while in the water floating safely, not in the boat, lol. And then when you descend you do so by deflating your BC (buoyancy compensator) - the inflatable vest they are wearing that you don't see them inflate or use at all - and do a gradual descent, equalizing ear pressure as Dhruv lays out below. The way you manage buoyancy when diving is by having enough weight to sink you without your BC being inflated but not enough that your BC can't make you float to the surface. Controlling buoyancy is a key skill one learns when taking the PADI "Open Water Diver" training and certification. That you don't see any of this in an advanced certification dive is incredible. It's astonishing. You might see a little more free styling in a crew of seriously experienced divers who dive together a lot in an area they feel very comfortable diving in. There is a time for relaxing the safety paranoia a bit but in a cert dive? And in bad vis? Fyi, I never relax the safety angle, I don't care who I 'm diving with. There is also a procedure for non-buddy diving that some folks do, a 'self-reliant" model but again, that's for a very experienced diver. The other screw up of epic proportions is related to the buddy thing. When buddy diving, you maintain regular visual contact with each other doing safety confirmations. You give a thumbs up when things are okay. When something is wrong, you extend your hand palm down and wobble it side to side. Your buddy should then come face to face with you. You should then signal to surface by a fist with a thumb pointing up, maybe you'd point to your ear to signal an ear problem but it's not necessary. Once either buddy signals an ascent is required that's really all one needs to konw. You and your buddy should immediately go to the descent/ascent line and begin a controlled ascent to the surface. If either buddy seems to be having difficulty, the functioning buddy would grab one strap of the other buddies BC and control their ascent and direction for them. A SLOW ascent. Okay, I'll stop now. The only person who didn't seem to be a total idiot was Niki but I'm not even clear who the diver's buddy was to begin with. This is just a total shit show.

@@glenn2745 i just read your comment and i 99% agree. i just disagree that thats bad vis (maybe i understood that wrong) and you said that for safety check you give thumbs up :D

@@N4jss Of course you are correct. Okay sign - not thumbs up!

Yeahh ive only dived (?) Once and had great non verbal communication with my instructor. I didnt feel unsafe at all and was a great experience. But videos like these really make me re consider ever diving again.

@@HRM.H Im in my rescue diver course right now to complete my master diver cert. dont let something like this scare you away from diving, instead use it as a learning tool to not be that diver. Do research and find a quality shop with quality instructors and it will serve you well. even at this level we still practice and train our basic skills to the point they become muscle memory. the most important skill to practice until you are super comfortable is BUOYANCY, This will do so much for your diving. it will teach you to use less weight, you will use less air, less energy, have more control and over all enjoy the dive more. A vast majority of diver related drownings happen because the diver is over weight and fails to maintain proper buoyancy, (especially on the surface) . Training should drill into you the importance of keeping your skills sharp, your equipment maintained and to dive within your limits.

This has actually reassured me that there are actual good instructors who would help this never happen.

Hundreds of dives, never met idiots like these.

"I'm determined to make gradual and comfortable steps to become an experienced diver. I love learning to dive..." What a great response. You are exactly the kind of trainee/student that diving instructors pray for! While good and measured training is paramount, the attitude and attention of the trainee to such instruction is all-important. You'll make a fine and safe diver, Friend. Enjoy. xx SF

The problem in recreational diving is that no one ever fails any course

@@999racing my uncle did fail

"Divemaster" is a joke of a term really, you can get it with as few as 60 dives which is absolutely crazy.

I’ve had better dives in a quarry with 2 foot visibility. Who let these goons get certified?

Yeah I don’t understand why they struggled so much. No swell, no current, good vis. What the fuck

Very scary ! Cold and dark are factors that increases narcosis, it might have been because of that

Hahahaha

No, sharks were smart enough to NOT want to consume pure stupidity.

If it did, I would hope the great white takes out the dive master for running this farce of a school. Not a single person on that dive should have been doing an advanced course.

Haha Thats what I was waI5ting for

Pretty sure they didnt.

😹

Have you ever been diving?

"$50 and I'll print you a certificate." That's how.

@Pagani Zonda - I agree. That's my point.

rofl that was really funny - she's the best part

I skydive and interrogate people I jump with.. this is why. People are arrogant and cocky and do unsafe shit that puts the entire group at risk... its the same with scuba

***** It felt like high-quality duct tape being ripped off my hairy chest, and that was when it attached. They don't hold on with their mouths. I's a boot-tread-like patch on the top of their heads.

You should have offered to be his shark for just a little bit to be polite

***** It's damn hard to say a safe word underwater. Threatening to move to Idaho sounds like a better ploy to keep women from moving in.

Docktor Jim One of those getSCUBAcertifiedin3days things?

Dan Kelly Oh hell no. I dive for work. I have extensive training, and hundreds of dives, but that didn't prepare me for a fish trying to become my Siamese twin.

How is the ears?

@Pagani Zonda the high pressure of the water does that easily if you don't properly equalize your ears.

lol

I was thinking the same thing they should never have gone that far down without checking he was ok. Hes very lucky that he was with experienced divers and kept his regulator in

Sounds like they just ran a marathon...

Alice sounds like he's sucking soap through a kazooh

Matt Out haha

Spot on,you should never do a dive you can’t finish by yourself. You’re buddy or other divers should be a last resort. I would recommend you get yourself trained on twins (redundancy). And perhaps. Go for self reliant.

well the divemaster isn't responsible for your air supply or usage. Unless you've informed him before the dive, that you are a beginner and need help, he should be able to assume you can monitor that yourself. You are the diver, you have been trained, you should know your limitations. Unless I'm diving with beginners, I will not likely be asking them how much air they have left. After your certification, you are responsible. "I dicided to make the decision myself", that's what diving is about.

Yeah, just to add to this while on a bit of a diving trip currently with a few different shops/dive masters: I thought it was expected of you to tell the DM when you need to head up. If we’re at a mooring, at around 1k psi I’ll let the DM know where I’m at and want to be somewhere near the line… then can putz around there for a bit. At that point I’ll head up for my three minutes around 400-500. I feel like I’ve been lucky to have never dove with people who weren’t anywhere between solid and incredible, and there’s always been an air of self-reliance but still everyone’s keeping a watchful eye. I only have about 85 dives so I feel like I’m just starting to get a sense of the balance between what I can expect from DMs and the self-reliance piece, but I sure appreciate DMs who don’t treat everyone like toddlers.

@@richardotto6643 This is some total horseshit. The divemaster should be establishing visual contact with all the divers he/she is leading on a regular basis. The divers should remain buddied up and be giving the okay signal in response to the visual check in, and the divemaster should be looking for a response when checking in with each set of buddies. Otherwise you are on a solo dive with lead diver - not a divemaster. There is a huge difference. The divemaster is responsible for the safety of the divers being led, not just for running the tour. That you don't understand this. well it's hugely problematic for you and anyone wh dives with you That you'd run your yap here is even worse - spreading misleading info. Sure, in your precise wording, you are correct - the divemaster should not be checking the air gauge or dive comps of certified divers. But when "leading" a dive, he/she is responsible for getting the divers back to the effing boat safely. And if for some reason one of the divers has gone low on air (can easily be an equipment problem) he/she should make sure they get to the surface safely and know how to get back to the boat. That you are like "you are on your own, the only job of the dive master to be leading the way through the dive' is astonishing. You should never be a dive master on any dive again. Where do you work? What dives do you lead? I want to report this to whoever it is you work for and see what they think of your attitude about your responsibility for diver safety as a dive master. You seem so sure you are correct - let's put it to the test with the people who certify you and/or that you work for and see what they say. Jesus, there are so many macho a-holes in the diving world. One has to be super careful who they dive with. Fyi, the only life endangering mishap I had under water was due to an overreaction by a dive master, lol. It was only the fact that my dive buddy and I stayed calm and followed all safety procedures that we got the surface safely on a 110 ft depth dive.

@@richardotto6643 I've always monitored my air, depth, dive profile and decompression time. I've always let my buddy know if I needed to ascend. But as the Master Diver YOU are the "boss" of the dive. I took my training seriously. How can you, however, know that an Open Water diver is really serious about those things? You can't. You will lose a diver one day because you fail to understand redundancy. This from an Advanced Diver to a Master Diver. Sure hope I never dive with you.

You know they could've died

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meancup ofchili Padi divers all want to be Dive Masters. They're a joke

meancup ofchili How did he pop an ear drum, is that normal?? Why did the guy panic?? They didn't give the guy oxygen, well wasnt that oxygen in the tank? Or does he mean after he came up to the boat?? Whats vertigo? Sorry for all the questions but i want to know more about it!! Didnt really understand what was going on exactly!!!! Someone please answer me!! Lol.......

Tammy White he burst his eardrum by not equalizing properly which is odd as equalizing is one of the easiest and most basic things you learn, the tank contains air which of course does Include oxygen (could also have been nitrox which has even more oxygen) but they meant when he got out onto the boat as it's administered in a variety of emergency situations though I don't think it was needed in this case anyway

Tammy White and vertigo is essentially being dissorientated and is often associated more commonly with heights

Sandra Clark I beg to differ, me and my dad both got qualified with padi and neither of us care about whether we have some fancy title we just want to enjoy It and so has everyone else I've dived with- and almost all of them were padi too

noted

Do you believe that they didn't ascend to avoid scrapping the dive? They had to be looking forward to this day.

It's all very well saying seek out competent instructors, but how do you know what competent is if you've never dived before? It seems to me this industry is badly regulated and people/divers do not report companies who are basically doing things illegally (to make money). This lowers safety standards and it's just a question of time before somebody ends up dead. So, what could be done differently? Putting safety and training first imo, but again how is the beginner diver supposed to separate out the good dive companies from the bad? It's crazy. Seems like this should all be heavily regulated.

@@ryand141 By not going with a small operation with the lowest price, you will avoid a lot of bad actors. Looking at reputation and experience of the school will also be a good marker. There are a lot of fixed costs involved in diving. Magically being able to undercut this will lead to quick bankruptcy or frequent (constant) safety violations, most probably both...

@@taraloker6045 Irrelevant. Your life is more important.

Alex Khalkhali i’m a beginner and i dive better than these fools

I don't know if it's due to the same thing, but if you use Q-Tips, stop using them and let the natural lubrication works, you should be able to pop your ears easily after one or two weeks. After it might just have been a cold or some running noses ?

@@charyog7 thank you very much - that might actually be a problem for me. It was also quite cold (which hurts my ears in the water anyway), but I also use earbuds to clean the wax out my ears because I hate how the wax feels in my ears. When I have the opportunity to dive again I will try leave my natural lubrication for a while. Thank you so much! I didn't realise this would be a consideration.

Ahmad Al-Shafai he didnt have oxygen can you even read?

I am talking about everybody

+Reserved Noodles ahahah do u at least know what you´re breathing? they had at least 6cylinders 12 regulators wow trust there was enough air, that was poor training..

+Ahmad Al-Shafai Yeah, I agree, this was the first sign that they were on a dive that they should never have been on. The Divemaster should have recognized this and stopped the dive. If this is your opinion you shouldn't be teaching people to dive!

+Michael Betzold Well let's not be pricks. The diver master should have recognized this, surfaced everyone, gave them some reminders, and then guided them on a decent rather than let them taco-down and fin kick their way into the depths. He should have walked them through the basics one more time it would have mellowed the situation out.

exactly!

And by now they're probably dive master... I wouldn't dive with them for sure!!! I wonder how many dives they had looking at their armflapping and reactions. It simply strengthen the idea we (CMAS divers) have about the PADI (Pay And DIe) system. And where was the 100% pure Oxygen they should have given to the victim? Man oh man, what a tragedy!

Samuel Adelaere No where in the article did it state it was a PADI dive.

Samuel Adelaere I was certified through PADI and its all about the instructors not the organisation. My instructor was very thorough and absolutely would not let us do anything unless we knew what we were doing and we could prove it. I agree with you on the O2 point you made, you should never refuse oxygen, always give it if in doubt.

Samuel Adelaere Just where did you get the idea it was a PADI dive? Take your unprofessional crap somewhere else.

Read your comment again when you'll get the alernobaric vertigo for the first time !

You know, there is this problem with a rebreather.......

Exactly my thoughts! Took so long for anyone to identify he had a problem. The reg sounded painful! Could barely see the DM, a panicked diver and one with vertigo! FUN!

Agree that as students they went way too fast (I've gone down the line like a brick but it was with a team that had the experience). The biggest offense is that everyone was weighted WAY too heavy. Everyone in the water (instructor included) is vertical and having to kick to keep from sinking, having proper buoyancy and trim (horizontal) is a critical skill for any diver, especially those who wish to go beyond the "PADI limits". Don't let this scare you from diving, just make sure you have your fundamentals down before going "Advanced". Hopefully these folks have come a long way if they're about to be Divemasters. -Divemaster, CCR Cave Diver

I"m surprised it says it's their "advanced" dive. Like is this their first deep dive, or their first advanced class deep dive. Because yeah, those are basics. This is why I guessed pissed at "learn how to scuba in 4 hours, or one hour!".

I didn't see much of anything good there. Awful decent, heads down, not on the line, no checking with each other, no adding air to the BC during decent, 2,& maybe 3 divers hyperventilating( Doug and Waseem,for sure). I always thought shops and charters push advanced agendas too quickly, and I believe it"s about the money.

that's good you can equalize quickly. I guess going down more than 1 ft/s isn't as bad as going up faster than that. I just don't risk it, some say I'm too meticulous.

Alex Schuppel it’s actually confusing. i went scuba diving and when you go over a deep spot, your body tricks itself into thinking that you should swim down as far as you can, then you can’t tell which way is up or down sometimes, it’s not as easy as it seems.

You just have to calm down, stop and see where the bubbles go ...

Well I've done over a 1000 dives and not once have I not know which way the surface is🤣🤣

PETE RIDDY 36” deep in your pool doesn’t count, Peter.

The guy had vertigo from the burst eardrum. Vertigo makes you disoriented and puts your balance out. I can see how vertigo under water would result in an inability to tell up from down.

OP?

@@matthewp1682 OP = original poster

@@matthewp1682 come on man. I sniff my stink hole 3x a day minimum. my stink puffs are nothing but joy. I LOVE my sweet stink nuggets and I inhale my stink like its going out of style. You should know things like this, MATTHEW

Right. He's the reason Waseem freaked out and didn't get oxygen in his tank. Because his ear drum burst. Its his fault. Don't become a police officer or hold ANY amount of power please for the love of christ.

Lets hope in these 2 years since you posted this you got a brain

+Chaz Dingo PADI divers on thier Advanced course? ;) Doesn´t require much dives Before "Advanced training dives / Advanced OW".

Thank you, someone thinking the same thing I was.

how do you handle people panicing worse than this as an instructor? especially in a deep dive...nevermind the fact it was supposed to be a training dive : /

I have been doing my advanced SDI open water over the last month ensureing that each dive is not rushed. You cant become advanced just by having 5 extra dives. Since starting my advanced course I have had 15 dives each one utilising whats been tought in that session and the previous. When I dive I want to come up alive and just doing it for the glory of a title is stupid.

You can also tell that they’re inexperienced from their doggy paddling

freediving has more deaths than scuba. Each have their own problems, they can't just freedive so scuba would become easier

Mehran Mahdi competitively yes. Spearfishermen are also culprits to those numbers, however, freediving teaches you to be more at ease and comfortable in the water. When I took my scuba class I was the only student there that didn't panic or have issues when we had to practice buddy breathing or clearing the mask. As a Freediver I had a lot more confidence in myself vs in my gear. So when my gear fails, which even the best designs will, I can rely on myself to get out of a bind

More knowledge is always a benefit, but free diving and SCUBA are different animals: one requires a breath hold, the other says don't hold your breath. The common factor, in my opinion, is understanding the mammalian dive reflex (free diving takes FULL advantage of it, whereas the in SCUBA it helps prepare the body for immersion, but one must override the MDR instinct to hold one's breath.)

totally agree with you. I was a freediver passing the advanced open water scuba padi deeps and when i tried scuba i found it very easy, and also very dangerous....... it´s the easy that makes it dangerous, people forget the safety measures.... and that was what happened here...... i believe the guy that panic was experiencing nitrogen narcosis not panic due to overweight as you read here since e does not remember much....the overweight was also obvious on all of them........ by descending that fast he didn't realise it on time....... I hope you still freedive. Cheers

just my thoughts...in aim to prepare for scuba, they wouldnt have to go so much deep freedive,into the danger zone, they should focus more on to the way to descent, way to balance, right attitude for buoyancy, FEEL the ways of the under water natural rules, and to get trained to endure and handle short term apnea ??

I disagree. It should absolutely be posted to KZfaq. If the only videos are of totally successful dives then you don't get the community conversations about what not to do and what you should do in very specific situations. But that's what's happening here. People are pointing to exact times in the video, saying what is wrong and what should have been done instead. It's a great learning tool. You can tell people all day what to do when this or that happens but them actually seeing the wrong thing happen in a video is more helpful in identifying when it's happening to them.

@@mommy2libras Absolutely correct!

actually posting this video was smart. so we can learn from it.

Im a new diver, (20 dives) but well trained.Cant believe this can happen... "advanced training" my ass.

ikr lol I would get my ass whooped if I did that, like literally.

Whats wrong with a descend speed? If everything is ok and you know what you doing going down is usually quick.

@@saidalex everything explained... they don't know what theyre doing.

@J S I'm still in my training, and my worst fears are lack of contact with other divers and accidental rapid ascents.

Descended too fast so didn’t take enough time to equalize properly, resulting in burst eardrum... And then at the bottom, they’re flailing, swimming erratically, not controlling buoyancy, stepping on the coral, knocking out regulators, no sense of calm or logic - wtf - bunch of buffoons... They are lucky no one was seriously hurt.

Yes sir; I understand. Sounds like a miracle. I knew after failing the pool it was not for me. Great swimmer; we swam across the Hudson River on a choppy day, but no thanks. Diving is not for me. God bless...

Yes sir; I understand. Sounds like a miracle. I knew after failing the pool it was not for me. Great swimmer; we swam across the Hudson River on a choppy day, but no thanks. Diving is not for me. God bless...

Michael Strike yes you get it I thought it was saying shit the regulator

I could even hear his heartbeat lol, this video kind of makes me scared of diving again. But then I remembered I've never had any problem underwater, even if I had I could sort it out myself. But idk why, what makes me panic the most when diving is when I don't have my mask on, as long as I got my mask on, I could just dive without the regulator for like 10 minutes.... no that's a lie, I could probably dive without regulator for just 3 minutes.

I got carted last year. We had to float/tread water for 10min and swim 300yd. None of the divers in this video would have been citified open water divers by my instructor. I'm no great diver but I'm better then this.

It's mostly holiday instructors that are very lax with the requirements because they want to get the cash rolling in. My instructor 6 years ago was very strict and I've had to do what you did in the 80's. He is now the director of tech diving diveSSI. My point is, each instructor differs. And those negligent instructors should have there licenses taken off.

From my point of view, as a rookie diver, we certainly got a heck lot a better SSI advanced course with Big Blue Divers in Koh Tao than that hesitating, disturbingly wrong-went dive. (Thanks to Matt Waters!) 200m, 10min were the least we did and our instructor said that was the least we could do (at the start of the open waters). I hope nobody has to go through anything like that during their courses.

***** SSI here as well and trust me, in the 80's when I was certified, was a lot harder then now :)

buminbeer2 Good Grief!!!! I agree with you. I started in the late 70's. Had to join the YMCA and practice 4 times a week for 6 months before scuba training, it was still difficult. Some people dropped out. Being from New England we were called mud divers on our trips south. I'm 63 and still go to R.I. on occasion. Still have my old style "dashboard". 8)

I’m gonna start with the basics. So, breathing, in and then what.....?

at the end they say, nothing you could learn from a textbook. wtf? I mean they did like 50 things wrong what they tell you in every textboook. Guess the biggest mistake for doug was the he probably had a cold or a narrow eustachic tube and/or doesn't know how to equalize properly. no offense, but guys, which one of you has a certificate and if where did you get it from?

English? 😂😂😂

So if my eardrum bursts I should stop equalizing? Can I continue descending, or abort the dive? It sounds practical, the way you describe it. Burst eardrum, might as well finish a dive without the hassle of equalizing every 5 meters lol

superhacker35 You should abort the dive immediately. Sure it sounds practical if you want impaired hearing and risk of further ear damage...

Thats what the guy in the video did, he aborted the dive as soon as he could. But what if It happens to me at 20+meters depth? Just skip the safety stop and emergency ascend or can I equalize until Im up?

Put Another Dollar In=PADI. ( after you sign the waiver)

padi isn't that bad if you have a good teacher and not some dumbass also if this was AOW they need to go back to the first course again because they are idiots even the girl was wondering what the heck was going on i like the PADI near me because they have people that know what they are doing though it may just be the shop near me that isn't run by idiots

will james I agree. People just judge each other. My instructor didn't let me pass the exam when I'm still having bad bouyancy practice and movement

I learnt to dive on holidays, With an SSI, then went back and got my advanced certification the next year. ive only done 15 dives. but it looks like these guys are makign the most basic of errors. I dont get how u blow an eardrum. i mean i know it can happen but only if you are struggling to equalize. in which case you just dont go any deeper. u wait till u can equalize then go lower. a lot of this doesnt make sense to me. You can learn from Padi or ssi, as long as you have a good teacher and common sense you should be fine.

The RAID course in Thailand was pretty damn good

I feel like that's a really good way to use videos like this. What you read in a textbook doesn't always translate well to what it might look like in reality, and I think watching and discussing videos like this as part of your scuba training can help develop a sense of mastery of the textbook skills you need to have a fun and successful diving experience.

That's what I thought ... Not even bothering if someone was near .....

Fins ERRWHERE

the best part when he did that is i think he kicked the other guy in the face....or at least got really close to it. im pretty sure if i take a fin to the face because someone deciedes to duck dive almost ontop of me were gonna have a word or two after the dive.

Fares Khrais no kidding even on the thyssenkrupp signa 5 or signa 6

Fares Khrais no kidding even on the thyssenkrupp signa 5 or signa 6

I totaly agree, this has to be one of the most worste decents i have witness. well over wighted, and sinking like a battle ship. this causes all the panic, and not enough experience around to control the situation. We know how eger people can be to take the next step in diving, but patinece is needed for experience.

Ever did dives with TRIMIX?

How you know who is the right one if you dont have experience like does idiots? Same principle..

@@ze2004 You may not have experience but you may listen to those who have experience and/or do your own diligence. You may be an ignorant in something but that does not make you an idiot. Ignoring is the first part of learning. Obviously this principle does not apply to sheeples and zombies, unfortunately the world population is becoming that.

@@bullsharkdb your opinion

@@bullsharkdb Being in dangerous situation without knowing what the basic principals are to survive is a little cowboy or an idiot.

Yes, WAAAY too much weight. I often see that in new divers. But just the way these divers descended!. I've seen whales make less turbulence on the surface....just gives one an idea how relaxed people are in the water and with their ability. If you blow an ear when you're just 8 meters under there's no reason to continue. If you can't tell where up or down is, then inflate your BCD and IT will find the surface!! What a mess, lucky they didn't seem to go too deep.

I agree, although I wouldn't be too harsh on the newbies; we all started from scratch, but the old adage rings true always when you dive; ' If it/you doesn't feel right, call the dive'..better to be back on the boat wishing you were diving, than diving and wishing you were back on the boat...diving should be enjoyed, not endured..! Happy and safe diving to you my friend..

There in lies part of the problem. "Advanced training" according to the description and newbies according to their skill level. Advanced means something totally different these days 25 dives to get Advanced training? That's just getting your feet wet. Nothing advanced about it.

Todd Bagley Well said my friend...

***** I couldn't agree more. The instant gratification that my 12 year old seeks in everyday life has permeated the diving world. I recently dealt with an instructor that was mad that he was required to have 50 hours logged on a particular rebreather before he could teach it, so the problem runs all the way up the food chain. Time and experience are the greatest teachers, in my opinion. I dove for 10 years before becoming an instructor.