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Solo diving... without an SMB.... in a drift...in an area with loads of sharks... with some dead fish strapped to you... And that, boys and girls, is how you get a darwin award.
As a IDC Staff Instructor and Master Instructor for many years I would say to any new Divemasters, AI’s or OWSI’s...Never let your guard down with new or unfamiliar students. Many years ago I was assisting as a farm fresh Divemaster on my first OW class. I had assisted my Instructor throughout the entire class including all of the pool sessions. I was very familiar with all of the students and knew who had some problems and who were more comfortable in the water. I’ve seen it too many times to count the students who seem to be “Naturals” to Scuba and those who are going to need a little more work. One young lady in the course did very very well in both her academics and the pool. One of those students that any Instructor can tell is going to do very well at the OW checkout and onward as she progressed into the sport. Or so I thought. We go to the lake to do their checkout dives and all is fine. My Instructor always liked doing smaller classes with multiple assistants. Close to a 1:1 pro to student ratio. We are also diving in land locked North Central Texas in lakes that look more like mud puddles than lake. We were lucky as we had about 12-15 feet of VIS (Exceptional VIS for us). So we always kept a close eye on the students and maintained body contact. As DM’s and AI’s our job was to watch the students as the OWSI conducted the skill assessment with another student. I was paired with the “Natural” young lady as she was by far the best student in the class and I was the newbie. Right up until she panicked. We briefed and headed out to our buoy and descended 30 feet to our platform. I descended with her and I put her on the platform and faced her on the other side of the rail. She was doing fine then all of a sudden she bolted for the surface. She had jerked right out of my grip. I instantly grabbed her fins to slow her down but she had filled her BCD to capacity. She was headed to the surface like a ballistic missile climbing an invisible ladder the whole way up. She had spit out her regulator and was in full blown panic mode. I shoved her reg back in her mouth and dumped her BC’s air as fast as I could. I was behind her when we got to the surface. As I turned her around she was spitting and coughing. Then she through up on me...Twice. One of the AI’s also ascended. They went back to let the Instructor know what had happened and the entire class followed us back to shore. We monitored her closely and luckily she was OK. It was then that she told us that she had had a near death drowning experience as a child and she had a deathly fear of the water. She was taking the course to overcome her fear. She couldn’t contain her fear anymore and simply panicked. I was like WTF!!!! A scuba class is NOT therapy for overcoming water phobias!!! My Instructor would not allow her to finish the class that weekend but he did counsel her on what to do if she wanted to come back at a later date. She did come back a month or so later and finished one on one with my Instructor, myself and another assistant. She did just fine the second go around. Moral of the story is treat every student as if they’re at the same (lowest) level of comfort and ability and never ever let your guard down. Not for a single second.
John Connelly Hey John...I know that the water temps there at this time of year range between 62 - 70 degrees Fahrenheit. For me, being from Texas and used to diving in temperatures of 80 - 90 degrees, 62 degrees is very chilly for me. I don’t know where you’re from or what brands are available to you but I would suggest a 5 millimeter 2 piece Farmer John. As far as brands I’m a US Diver/Aqualung/Seaquest fan so I’d choose the Aqualung or Seaquest. Henderson also makes a great wetsuit as well as NeoSport, Mares and ScubaPro. I personally don’t like hoodies so that one is your preference. Medium weight gloves should do the trick for your hands. Be sure to do a buoyancy check before your first dive. I hope this helps. Have a great trip and safe travels to you.
Jack G. Hey Jack, as you wrote above that's the right way to do it, In Europe we are mostly training in lakes and rivers, so our training is more complex due to low visibility during the summer season (sometimes around 3-6 m). Also, our training is focused on buoyancy control in low depth 5-10 m so the most critical depth for equalising and buoyancy control. One thing what is scary about this video is the fact, plenty of certified divers even professional divers (DM, OWSI etc..) are using strange methods and drills, like using a BCD for ascending...this could be life-threatening when something goes wrong during the ascent. I saw divers missing me like a rocket and they didn't realize something is going wrong because they were played with the camera or the gear.
@@marksman_airsoft4565 The star student of the class nearly drowned as a child and was learning scuba to overcome that fear, but never warned anybody. Panic attack at 30ft during OW, inflated BCD to max, then vomited on her divemaster twice.
I often dive alone in freshwater lakes. I have 2 rules for this. I never go deeper than 25 feet and I never am farther than an easy swim to shore. I never had a problem in 20 + years of doing this. Last summer I had my secondary regulator start free flowing 20 feet down. It was no big deal because I follow those 2 rules!!
I totally agree that the number of dives and the quality of the gear does say puppy nothing about the skill of a diver. I once was on a diving safari in Thailand. On the boat were two dudes (a buddy team) with excellent and expensive gear. The first thing one of the guys said to me was: "Listen kid, I'm a pro". Apparently the guy was a dive guide at some dive shack at koh tao island and had a divers log as big as his puppy ego - I remember him saying that he had beyond 1000 dives. The other guy was a wealthy Russian tourist with something about 150 dives and an array of go pros with him. At the time I had about 30 dives and my only own gear was a mask and cheap diving computer. My buddy had about 50 dives and owned only her mask. When we hit the water chaos break loose. It began at the surface, where the "pro"-diver would decent without signaling "ok" to the boat or our dive guide. We checked with the dive guide and started to decent to meet with the guy under water. I looked at my buddy and we started to coordinate our decent so we would have the same speed and have visual contact. At around 5 meters I looked up to check where our guide was. She was still close to the surface, trying to pull the Russian guy down. Apparently the guy was too buoyant and could not deflate his BCD properly. The "pro" was out of sight at the bottom - out of the depth limit of this dive. Eventually our guide could help the Russian to deflate his BCD. The guy sank like a rock. Apparently the dude had no idea how to control his buoyancy. Somehow me managed to meet at the bottom, where the guide had captured the strolling "pro". After energetic signaling from our guide that everyone should stay close to his/her buddy and that we should stay within visual range to the guide, we continued the dive. Immediately "pro" and Russian dude separated from the group in different directions. Russian went to pick up starfish and swim through small openings (still without being properly bouyant and crashing into everything). This forced our guide to call the dive. We ascended to the safety stop. Where the guide would check for our remaining air for the first time. "Pro" had only 20 bar left - after barely 15 minutes into the dive. He had just a crazy high air consumption. This buddy team kept diving for the rest of the safari - but they where kept under close surveillance of the guides. They had a combined experience with far beyond thousand dives and gear and cameras of the worth of a new hatchback - but those two where the most puppy divers I have ever seen.
Woah that sounds like a recipe for disaster. It's a good thing no one got hurt. I wonder where the Russian guy was certified that he doesn't seem to mind displaying disruptive behaviour to marine habitats
Lesson learned for me, always bring a back up light on a night dive. Looking back it should have been obvious. I was on a night dive in San Diego in the kelp beds. 1/2 way through the dive my buddies light failed. Luckily we were close enough to each other that we could make physical contact because, sure enough, my light failed soon after. We ended up using the glow from our gauges to find a small bubble to follow to gauge our ascent speed and thankfully came up near the boat. This could have easily gone very badly.
that last one.... what the puppy were they doing at 30m if they only had OW.... here is my story; I was doing the search and Recovery specialty in a fresh water lake at about 15m. I was in the middle of a search exercise near the bottom when a couple divers swam passed me in the opposite direction. suddenly I found my self in what seemed like a HUGE cloud of debris, unable to see the palm of my hand in front of me. for a fraction of a second I thought about shooting upwards but quickly mentally slapped myself.... i then recalled I took compass heading near the shore line. so i decided to swim in the opposite direction of where the shore is making sure i remained at the same depth using my computer....I eventually swam clear of the cloud of debris and got a good lesson on how to stay "cool" in an uncomfortable situation.
I surfaced from a dive after having gotten a bit lost, and was over very deep water. I was a bit rattled from having gotten lost, and not focused like I should have been. I started handing my gear to my partner on the dinghy. I passed him My BCD, and didn't realize at the time that I still had my weight belt on. I'm here to type this because I didn't let go of the rope on the dinghy. What I learned is BWRAF works in reverse too. B make sure it's inflated, W give your weights to the person on the boat, then Release your BCD and pass it to the person on the boat, (A and F) don't really apply here. UPDATE: I just completed my Rescue Diver Course on November 25th 2018! Wanted to mention that I made a discovery about my buoyancy with the weight belt. My weight belt has 14 pounds of lead on it, and that alone is not enough to make me sink with all of my exposure gear. I was floating with no problem. This does not in any way change the importance of the above comment, it remains important to stay focused and BWR from above still applies.
My first real wreck dive was an interesting one. I needed to do this dive in order to get my advanced certification, it was the last out of all the 5 dives. In the morning I alreaded felt a little nauseous but decided to go on the boat anyway. My instructor was training another couple for their first deep dive on the same dive. I was feeling comfortable once we were descended to about 30m. However after like 15 min. into the dive I literally got a little sick into my regulator. I signaled to my buddy/instructor that I wasn't feeling well so we shallowed up as she thought I was uncomfortable with too many people around. As one of the other divers was going through his air faster than I do through my underwear we ascended shortly after. I ended up skipping the 2nd dive of the day, however I still successfully received my AOW certificate. End of the stroy: just do not go diving when you#re not feeling 100%
@@bgrossman You're far better off learning to dive with a club that will take an interest in you rather than just take your money. BSAC in the UK are excellent, the training is to a far higher standard and there is always used equipment being sold.
@@bgrossman PADI are just a training organisation and its instructors who often work illegaly. They are paid per student and it is in their interest to pass everyone. Open Water qualification is frequently done with no prior knowledge in just two days which is a recipe for disaster . I've actually witnessed one fatality when a group of PADI OW students were on their qualifying open water dives. The instructor and five school didnt even want to take responsibility for the body and it was left to another five school. There are good PADI instructors but there's no money teaching courses over the extended period it should be conducted over. Four to six weeks is good with two sessions a week, one theory and one in the water. At that rate students have time to take on, understand and memorise theory and build confidence so when they're actually in open water they're able to handle themselves. Just as important is the fact that when, as they usually do, come back from a short holiday break, they're in a better position in a years time to get back in the water.
I was on a dive trip to Grand Cayman. I was diving alone so the dive master asked me to buddy dive with a married couple. By the way, the dive master only dove for half the dive, then went back to the boat. The problem was that this other couple was more concerned with exploring than making sure that their "buddy" was safe. I have an advanced certification, but that doesn't mean that I'm that great a diver since I only dive once a year. On this dive, I was careful to check my gauge and decided not to stray too far from the boat, wanting to end the dive with 500 PSI in my tank. However, this couple wanted to wonder off to who knows where. When we got back on the boat, the male diver made a critical comment to the dive master that he didn't want to dive with me if I constantly checked my gauge (I didn't constantly check my gauge, but I was aware of the status of my air). This experience has caused me to feel apprehensive about going on dive trips where I have to buddy up with someone else. Kind of a bummer.
@@pamspencer5733 Not that I have given up diving, As a matter of fact I tend to dive deeper and longer (technical diving). But would agree with you on the boat, sale the Caribbean in winter and come north in summer.
Interesting stories!! , I had a bit of a scary run in a few days ago!, me and my buddy partner was diving with a divemaster and a group of 6 just a bit away from Broughton Island Australia, the dive there consists of swimming between a huge crack straight through an island, it only goes about 19 metres down, but the scary part is, on the way back I notice my tank is down to 100psi, I signal my partner that I'm low and signals me to grab the attention of the divemaster, I turn around and notice where at the back of the group and cant locate the divemaster, so we carry on, there was a bit of a surge underwater and due to myself not being super experienced and slight panic I try swimming forwards regardless of the surge, which as you can guess, burns through the little amount of air I have left, we get through to where we began our dive and notice my dive master, i look down at my gauge and i have 20 psi left, I signal to him im out of Air, because of the surge my dive buddy was a bit further back so the only option i had was to get to my divemaster, I got to him just in time as the last of the air left the tank, luckily we where at our saftey stop and we hovered there for 5 minutes sharing air. I understand this was to me, in my lack of experience and poor choices and my panic, but I can definitely tell you I'm never kicking into a surge like a fool again and practising my breathing techniques. they teach you it in the training how to deal with low air but i never thought id get put into that situation, I certainly learned the hard way!
On my last dive a few years ago ( busy life and low on money) my instructor/friend asked me to body up with one of his new students that had some "difficulties" compared to the other students. The plan was to do a check on top and again at 30ft and as soon as we started descending I noticed his first stage was leaking but the guy wasn't paying attention to me at all, going head down like it's a race to the bottom 😩. I grabbed him by the fins at around 19ft ( not so bad I thought its better than 30ft saving a bit more air while I get it to stop leaking). So I gived him my octo which he started sucking on like a hungry child on his mother's breast 😐. I thought ok he is nervous, to him its scary. and I noticed he was trying to infalt his BCD, but I had his first stage off by then, so no harm I thought and focused my attention on fixing the leak. Took me a few moments/ trys but finally bubbly free at last 🥳. I take his second stage pull my octo from him and pushed his 2nd into his mouth and purged it . I ok him he oks me back. All good now 😌 nodded him to check me and he gives me OK . I check the depth and we are 90ft 😱 . That guy was really something else it turns out he was pushing his inflation/ deflation and when nothing happened he grabbed mine and deflated the shit out of it 🤯 . How do I know he was holding on to it 😒. Does the story stops here, No it doesn't. Looking around for the others and looking up i saw it . A string of bubbles coming from my 1st stage 😓 and the guy was off like a rocket swimming away from me as fast as he can 😰( perhaps making up for the time I made him hold still which he didn't in the worst way possible) . I don't remember what my air read this was a few years ago but things where miserable that I remember very well. Anyway I started calming my breathing, took off my BCD flipped it around, kept focusing on depth and some how managed to fix the leak without going up or down. The story doesn't end here but I guess you know that already 😆. I'm alone now and low on air . So I go in the general direction that guy went to, and luckily I find the group and the guy with them . I come up to the instructor and signal him I'm going up and showed him my air . He was shocked I could tell 🥴. I signal the instructor with two fingers to keep both his eyes on that guy and I go to hold the boats anchor line at 15ft to do my deco now I'm well in the red but its fine now I was going to do as much as I can and if I can't get air I will go out. But yes the story doesn't end here. I was breathing deep and slow and after 3 minutes or so started it be difficult to breathe and boom 💥 out of no where the instructor and guy are next to me and something was wrong the instructor was panicking. And when I saw it I panicked too . The guy,... his mask was filled with blood and his movement was everywhere. WTF . both of us took him up and I remember my heart was racing and on the top some yelling happened. But it turns up that the guy has a condition that he gets nose bleeding and just didn't clear his mask 🤬. Lessons learned. No1 A type 1STs are shit , no2 never trust no body, no3 always pay attention to your depth and finally no4 always be nice to you mother 💯 . I miss diving although the last one was a memorable one lol.
On my rescue course (as a part of my divemaster internship) as a crew we were doing liftbag skills and quick search patterns (total dive time was supposed to be 40mins at 8-10m) I (along with a few others) took a 7L cylinder which I would often do for guided customer dives or fun dives without any problems lasting 50mins and coming up with a reserve of 70bar. After our skills the instructor signalled that we would be going back to a specific mooring line, to ascend to the boat. When we arrived at the mooring there was a school of leopard sharks just off line and as a crew we stayed for another 10 minutes prior to ascending. At our safety stop (not reqd but procedure) I ran out of air (initially thought a buddy was playing with my cylinder) and had to buddy breathe with another candidate to the surface (where I then orally inflated) Best possible scenario on the best possible dive, but an awesome lesson in monitoring your air and not being complacent, will not be running out of air EVER again 🤙🏽
So, dumb question, but one i feel I need to ask... I'm not a diver (hoping to get certified next year) but i am a firefighter and out SCBAs have low air alarms that go off at about 1/3 remaining air. Do SCUBA systems not have some sort of built in air alarm?
I have only completed my OWD course so i may have just not come across an alarm system but throughout the course there was no use of any low air alarms so we were told to check regularly
Cthippo1 "Do SCUBA systems not have some sort of built in air alarm?" Back before submersible pressure gauges were available there were a few regulators on the market that would vibrate or otherwise signal low pressure, but most didn't and we relied on our dive watches to estimate our remaining air. (We also had reserve levers to flip if we ran low that gave us a few more minutes of air. Look up "J-valve" for more info on those.) Now that we have SPGs and "air integrated" dive computers, alarms and J-valves are considered superfluous.
You’re supposed to DEFLATE as you ascend, so that you prevent a runaway ascent. Scuba diving is supposed to be a bit of a healthy workout so there’s nothing wrong with having to kick a little bit to rise. But it’s horrible if you have a runaway ascent. You can get DCS
Been diving 33 years, man I could tell you some stories lol. Many are other divers but some are mine. Like the day I got the nickname roadmap. Forgot to hook up inflator whip to my dry suit. At 70 feet the squeeze was unbearable. Later at the motel room it's a holy S ! Moment, just picture that vulcanized suit being squeezed at 70 feet, yea my skin showed every crease and wrinkle of that suit. They called me roadmap the rest of the trip. Lol
I bought a new weight belt and on the first dive with it the buckle came off and I lost my weight belt at 70 feet. I flew up to 30 feet but got the divemasters attention and he grabbed my arm and we kicked hard to get to the belt. He rethreaded the buckle while I held the weight and got it back on me. Now I will always check the thread of the buckles if I use a rental or buy a new one. Nobody ever checks these. Luckily training kicked in and I flared and instead of singing I was screaming on the way up!
I was diving in Marsa Alam with emperor .It was my first cave dive basically just follow the person in front of you everything was going smoothly until my friend in front for some reason ascended and hit his head on the ceiling he panicked and moved really fast to follow the person in front of him. I tried my best could not keep up ,so now I enter a one person entry cave go through and end up in a corner can't see any opening stood there person behind me comes through the single hole he is also standing Parelell to me pretty soon there are three of us no one knowing what to do I spot a opening up on the ceiling follow it end up on top of the reef not my proudest moment I'm like a fish out of water on top of the coral roof then after a while lead instructor comes through the hole through the cieling and pulls me back in.Now that opening is named after me and is called Reuben's exit .I am now the butt of jokes every dive trip FML
I was in the Med off the south coast of France (Rescue Diver - 100+ dives at this point). Hadn't dived in about a year and had requested a nice easy / shallow dive to get back into the swing of things. During the dive brief (30 seconds at most) it turns out we are going to 34m and there's going to be a current... So they all jump off the rib and immediately start descending way too fast. I take a few moments longer on the descent and as I arrive I see a cloud of bottom sand / silt thrown up by the rest of the group. I can't see a thing, so i wait patiently for the cloud to dissipate. As it does, I realise the group has vanished. Count to 60 with a few 360's - nothing. I carefully ascend back to the surface, grab hold of the rib, where the pilot only speaks French. About 40 minutes later they surface with an "oh there you are!" Paid my bill for the one dive and left the 5 Star Padi dive shop never to return.
Whilst guiding a dive for newly certified divers at around 15m, just before our turning point I noticed two divers below me at around 25m I recognized the pair as newly certified divers from the boat I worked they saw that I signed for them to buddy on me so they come over and I find that the pair are at around 60 bar, as a new owsi myself my guard was firmly up and I quickly checked air on the other divers, turned the divers and luckily a drop tank was always placed at the deco stop as there was an advanced course also diving, they managed to make it back to the deco stop at around 30bar and then complete the decomp, but it gave me a lesson be organized and prepared for the worst outcome,
I had a panic attack during mask clearing drill in my AOW although I managed to do it fine during my OW. Idk why but i felt like I couldn’t breathe or take in the oxygen although I had the regulator in my mouth. And It was so weird. i couldn’t see or hear so immediately my conscious became like my best friend and instructor. and I was mentally trying to calm myself down and it felt like my mental self was just talking to my physical self like Germaine calm the shit down and breathe slowly you have the regulator so just breathe okay you can do it don’t ascend just breathe you are okay but physically my body just felt like it couldn’t take in the oxygen no matter how hard I try to breathe. But I’m very lucky that although I was having a panic attack I was still able to calm myself down and think properly although it took a while for my body to physically calm down and breathe normally again.
That was God working with you, mate. 🙏 Same thing has happened to me before. I have quiiiiite a few stories of God helping me on dives. Actually, now that I think about it, all of them. He's the best dive buddy. None of us go down without Him, even if we don't realize that we are. 🙏🙏🙏
Exactly the same thing happened to me as I was 10 meters down practicing mask cleaning. The moment my eyes and nose are exposed to water, I couldn’t breathe even though mouth piece was well working and placed. Signalled my instructor that I’m okay as I knew after my fight against that unreasonable urge not allowing me to breathe I will be breathing again. Had to fight against that urge for 20 seconds before I could breathe again, leaving me coughing badly underwater but okay. This sport seems to be no joke. One has to be very calm and alert all the time.
When I was getting my advanced certification, my puppy instructor hid his knife for me to practice search patterns. Now, he claims he told me this before the dive; either he lied (unlikely), he forgot that he forgot to tell me (more likely), or my ADHD got the better of me and I wasn't listening when he told me he was going to hide it (most likely). Shortly after he did so, the current picked up immensely and the visibility went from around 100 feet to 30. He hid it on a slope, so I was going from about 50 feet to 20 feet in a variety of search patterns. After ten minutes, I thought I was done. He writes on his slate "Did you find it?" I write "Find what?" He got understandably angry and told me he hid his knife, and I spent another half hour looking for the puppy thing in extremely intense current (I am small and use little air.) He looked too and couldn't find it. Either he hid it so well he forgot where it was, the current got it, or another diver stole it (we were at a resort in Bonaire near a somewhat popular wreck.) Main takeaway? Make sure you take your Ritalin while you're planning your dive with your buddy/instructor.
I absolutely love your content. In the upcoming summer I will finally work on getting scuba diving licence, and your videos are giving me better views on the whole sport. Keep the dank puppy up
Hey Mark, do you recall the bit where Falco mentioned that the lost diver had been under an overhang? I feel like the overhang could, you know, catch some of the bubbles potentially, preventing them from being spotted higher up (swimming to and from said overhang non-withstanding. ) *Wink*
Once in the Philippines, at around 35m below the surface, my second stage and the mouthpiece disconnected. The mouthpiece still in my mouth, I was staring at the 2nd stage freeflowing around, like the high pressured hose of a firetruck left unattended. NARCED ! I ... inhaled and realized what I was doing only when my mouth and nose gott filled up of water. I quickly grabbed my alternate, ascended a little bit... I was fine ! Furious, I went to talk to the owner of the dive centre who told me that the zip tie sealing firmly the moutpiece on the 2nd stage was probably missing before i went to the water .... Another think I am paying attention to now !
I love this channel! but can you please put up a feet to meters when you talk about it, i mean all i need is just the number, just an animation i mean daym! metric for life. . . . . . . . because it makes cents
That last dive would've had me showing him a different hand signal and would've ascended with or w/o him! No one could make me do an unsafe dive - especially when I'm not trained or geared for!
Joe kle PADI doesn’t teach open water divers to primarily use the rule of thirds anymore. They had us calculate turn pressure for each dive given our exact PSI and an 800 PSI reserve
Shawn K that's crazy at 30ft it's OK but not at 60+. In all honesty sdi is a much better program. I'd advise people to do both certification. Padi only because it's excepted everywhere.
Yeah, it's certainly not the most conservative method. My dad's a Padi divemaster but he was certified back in '95 and they learned to go by the rule of thirds. I just got open water so I was in their most recent course. Didn't really teach us squat about tables either but that does make sense when you consider the availability and reliability of today's computers.
Shawn K You only need tables when you doing technical dives. The rest you can use your computer with out any issues. Padi now a days just want to get people in the water as fast as they can. It's become like every other business. Being you just have your open water check into sdi to advance your certifications. If your the kind of guy who like all the fine details you will like sdi and tdi.
Computers and tables? Are you setting up an office down there? Man....watch waterworld you might learn something! And forget about sdi and gti it’s all about electric cars now.
If you're using an octo that also functions as an inflator for your BCD and have a snorkel equipped. Be very sure that you are grabbing the octo and not a suicide straw when switching to it or else you're puppied.
No story but, beginner diver here. I have fins, mask, snorkel, bootie, hood and gloves. I’ve been on 2 dives since I started about 3 months ago and I was wondering if someone could help me. I need a cheap but good entry level BCD, Octo, Reg and Gauges? Any suggestions?
Depends on the kind of diving you’ll be doing as well as the location and if you’re travelling with it 👌🏼 ‘Travel’ BCD’s are super light weight but often rear-inflation meaning that they will hold you in a horizontal (belly to the bottom) position which is great for diving, but not great for surface skills or spending a lot of time vertically. The lift on these BCDs can often also be less than that of a traditional jacket style, which may be a factor for you (if you’re drysuit or cold water diving with lots of weight) It can definitely be more cost effective to purchase a second hand BCD (gumtree, Facebook, Craigslist) but make sure you take apart all of the dump valves, wash, lubricate and reassemble before use to ensure the gear is safe, or have your LDC check it over for you if you’re not confident to do it yourself. As a beginner there is not a lot of variance in a set of regulators, many divers (myself included) purchase second hand regulators to start off with, but be sure to have them fully serviced before you dive with them. (I’ve since had multiple new sets, but it’s a great way to get quality gear at a reduced price, just never trust how many dives the seller says they’ve done with the gear)
For reference I now dive with an oceanic excursion (rear inflation BCD) and oceanic FDX10 first stage with Zeo primary 2nd and alpha a9 safe second. I have a cheap problue SPG and dive with a Suunto D6I air integrated wrist computer with a transmitter on my regulators first stage.
Get a bit of experience with rental gear first, and ask experienced divers to show you their gear. When you have more logged dives (20-30), you should have a better idea of your style of diving and the equipment that suits you best. Don't rush into buying equipment. I'd also advise not to buy entry level gear, better quality is a bit more expensive but will last much longer and is much more comfortable to dive with
If you still haven't bought your own BC, Octo, Reg, etc. don't buy any of them. Instead get a metal backplate, wing and a DIR setup for your regulators (meaning your primary second stage is attached via a 2.1m or 7ft long hose and your backup is attached by a 22-24 inch or 50-60cm short hose and strapped around your neck with a bungee). Look at these videos th-cam.com/video/iA0QOqG1zmk/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/G4G7Do4Q4Kk/w-d-xo.html
Story #2 almost gave me a heart attack. 😬 Holy...puppies. 😅😅😅 I'd give grace to the balloon diver in story #1, but after the 2nd dive of her doing that, I would NOT go down with her ever again. I'd keep BOTH of us on the boat or find another buddy for me. But I'm not putting either of our lives at risk if she's having a bad day like that and certainly not going down a THIRD time with her! 😰☠️☠️☠️ Too many bad buddies in my life. I tell everyone up front, even my friends who wanna get certified, that I'll only dive with them if they're a smart/not stupid diver, aka not like the "SURPRISE!" "independent" "balloon" "photographer" divers talked about here! 😂😂😂😂😂
I almost died 2 days ago, I had a CO2 build up at 100feet while starting to ascend, it caused me to start shallow hyperventilating while i was kicking up, which basically lead to a bit of an anxiety attack I guess because I couldn't intake enough oxygen. Had i just emptied my lungs entirely, I probably would have been able to breathe again normally. I had to emergency ascend to the surface, in less than a minute. Don't want to experience that again, totally cheated death in multiple ways.
Robert Harris can be scary to empty ones lungs when one feels the physical urge to do the opposite. Some people practise this sitch regularly on land, saves lives.
I've now watched 5 or 6 youtube videos about diving..... just bought a bunch of old used dive equipment on CL .....tomorrow I make my first dive, alone and going deep into a cave .....going to find out what's all the fuss about with this sport..........
Mark, I am a recently certified Open Water Diver. I do plan on eventually advancing my training, but for now I just want to gain experience. I am doing this by doing local lake clean ups. My problem is that I mostly don't like people. I am interested in diving because I love the aquatic life forms and find them interesting and beautiful, but I love the solitude of being underwater and undisturbed by human interaction. This is not a good thing I guess because all my training tells me I should have a buddy to dive with. However I am diving in waters probably no more than 15 meters deep and do this solo. my reasoning is that I am not too deep to make a quick surface if need be.I practice my skills on every dive, I plan my depth and time carefully so as to not exceed any limits.I mentioned all this because I would like your opinion on this matter. Am I reasonably safe in diving this way?
Since no one replied I will. I am a newbeginner with only OWD and a few specialty courses. It is not safe to dive alone no matter which depth. Something could go wrong with the equipment, you can hurt yourself or lose your conscience for any reason whatsoever. The point of a buddy is also to have someone who can drag you up and call for help if the puppy ever hits the fan.
@Gee first of all I hope you're still alive and well. Diving alone 15 meters deep is very dangerous as going up quickly from this depth, in case your first stage fails, will probably cause decompression sickness. So please never dive alone.
without your bcd, you will drown yes..... if its done, then have you Luck when you can breath amd only your bcd is broken or youre in Trouble in ² and need support from your buddy. Quickrelease the weight is then the last option when youre Buddy are broke or unable to reach you..... And HOPE and Relax, Panicing and youre in trouble ³
You have both the weights (negative buoyancy, that try to drag you down) and the BCD+wetsuit (positive buoyancy, that try to keep you float). You have to carefully adjust the weights and the air inside the BCD to reach a neutral position (neutral buoyancy). Now you are perfectly still and you can simply swim up or down. For safety reasons you have to ascend SLOWLY, this is why you shouldn't use the BCD to ascend (is definitely better to use the BCD to maintain the neutral buoyancy and control the ascent with swim).
In Thistlegorm I was the first in the water, hanging on to a line next to the boat Exhaust. After 1-3 minutes I felt a bit dizzy. After Descending to the lowest part of the wreck I was extremely dizzy and signed to abort the dive and go to safety-stop. Note to self! Don't ever do that again.
Was in a well known mine hadn’t dived in 6 months had dive guide went through dive briefing 100 mph and did the dive almost as fast her drill sergeant boyfriend was stressing me out I gave up the rest of the day. Ruined my experience and I couldn’t believe how they put the whole group down the tubes
"A number in your dive long says nothing about your skill as a diver" Are you listening PADI? The Deep Diver, so no deep stop? You just finished a dive with a max depth of 150ft, most definitely blew through your NDL, and only did a 5 minute safety stop at 15ft? Gotta wonder how many people needed oxygen after that one. Bet the captain was pissed and probably fired both DM's.
First I'm an underwater photograp her, I go slowly, need a buddy that sticks like glue on my right shoulder then follows my instructions to get the shot. A random buddy that wants to swim at speed to China. I let go. NOW the story. Scapa flow -30yesrs Diving the inverlaine if my memory is right. We dive inside the wreck. I find a seal who comes up to the first daw invites me up to the second dore, pulls me on through. And then dissapears. I was in a room 5 metres by 5 metres, portholes, I can look at the world BUT I could not get through the portholes. Where Is The Door. Nowhere to be seen. At that moment I had the start of Panic... What happens if... This is the point of this message. If you control the point of your panic, you live. I could not go up, left, right, out of the window. The seal was noit there to help me. I went down, found the exit , refound my buddy , who was having a great time
If you feel like making a full length movie on this subject, don’t hassitate and contact me. Ton’s of stories. Some my mistake. Some the mistakes of others. And most, mistakes by the complete team. One of the best? Diving a shipwreck. Going through the holds at 40 meters. Burning your gas quite fast. Coming up to 30 meters. Telling your DM you’re down to say 80 bars. Which she thinks is plenty to get back inside the wreck. At 30 meters. To have a ceiling for over a 150 meters. When I got out I was down tot I believe 30/40 bars. With close to 20 minutes of deco. Never have I been told so fast to get to 21 meter and switch to my decogas. Told her twice in advance this was a bad idea, getting back inside. She ignored it twice. I make my problem your problem by then. Luckily I stay quit relaxed when I see it coming.
I assisted on a class one time I held the rear of the group in a line and one student started to ascend really fast I tried to communicate to the lead instructor as fast as possible with no luck I had to swim fast to reach the other student starting from 80 ft cought him at 20 ft if I hadn't he could've got injured as well as me he had no intention of safety stop all because he could clear his ears he panicked
The worst thing that happened to me was that my buddy accidentally kicked my regulator out of my mouth. I recovered it quickly, but I was still a bit pissed at him for not paying attention
That last story made me puppying angry. I would have best the puppy out of that puppying idiot. I have only done one tourist dive in Hawaii and doing a lot of research before I go in for my certificate but all of that stuff was common sense. Thank you for your awesome content. Hopefully I get certified sooner than later.
One time I was out diving with my dad and he saw that my tank was a bit loose but he didn't remember how to signal it to me so he signaled to me go up and we slowly started to go op but suddenly he was below me and grabbed my tank and I was stil going op so when he grabbed my tank and pulled me close to him so he could fix my tank (I still didn't know it was him) I when in to panic because I didn't know what was poling me down so I started to kick harder and twist and stop and burning thru my air and suddenly he let me loose and I flew op to the surface and looked all over the place then he slowly came op and said something grabbed me and pulled me down he said yeah that was me ur tank looked a bit loose and I just looked at him and said what the puppy is wrong with u say it next time my heat was beating so fast stil he couldn't se the problem he just thought I can easily do this he wouldn't even notice instead gave me a panic attack thankfully it wasn't to deep down so I didn't get sick or injured
Don't complain to PADI, because they may take away your scuba diving cards if you complain! I complained about sexual harassment and poor quality training and they refuse to issue me my 2 diving cards!
Why would any one want to do any thing remotely safe while diving? That is no fun. After all, what would you have to write about if every one were safe?
the saying is fifth wheel..... NOT THIRD WHEEL!!!!! three wheels can work together successfully as a group, whereas a FIFTH wheel is odd, cumbersome, out of place and unnecessary..... ok? GEEZE!!!! STOP SAYING THIRD WHEEL PEOPLE!!!!!! just because there are 3 people in the group doesn't mean you say "third wheel".
Can I not find a free audio "show" on the internet that doesn't have to include pointless stock footage and substitute all off-colour language with the word "puppy"?
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Solo diving... without an SMB.... in a drift...in an area with loads of sharks... with some dead fish strapped to you...
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Natural selection!
As a IDC Staff Instructor and Master Instructor for many years I would say to any new Divemasters, AI’s or OWSI’s...Never let your guard down with new or unfamiliar students. Many years ago I was assisting as a farm fresh Divemaster on my first OW class. I had assisted my Instructor throughout the entire class including all of the pool sessions. I was very familiar with all of the students and knew who had some problems and who were more comfortable in the water. I’ve seen it too many times to count the students who seem to be “Naturals” to Scuba and those who are going to need a little more work. One young lady in the course did very very well in both her academics and the pool. One of those students that any Instructor can tell is going to do very well at the OW checkout and onward as she progressed into the sport. Or so I thought. We go to the lake to do their checkout dives and all is fine. My Instructor always liked doing smaller classes with multiple assistants. Close to a 1:1 pro to student ratio. We are also diving in land locked North Central Texas in lakes that look more like mud puddles than lake. We were lucky as we had about 12-15 feet of VIS (Exceptional VIS for us). So we always kept a close eye on the students and maintained body contact. As DM’s and AI’s our job was to watch the students as the OWSI conducted the skill assessment with another student. I was paired with the “Natural” young lady as she was by far the best student in the class and I was the newbie. Right up until she panicked. We briefed and headed out to our buoy and descended 30 feet to our platform. I descended with her and I put her on the platform and faced her on the other side of the rail. She was doing fine then all of a sudden she bolted for the surface. She had jerked right out of my grip. I instantly grabbed her fins to slow her down but she had filled her BCD to capacity. She was headed to the surface like a ballistic missile climbing an invisible ladder the whole way up. She had spit out her regulator and was in full blown panic mode. I shoved her reg back in her mouth and dumped her BC’s air as fast as I could. I was behind her when we got to the surface. As I turned her around she was spitting and coughing. Then she through up on me...Twice. One of the AI’s also ascended. They went back to let the Instructor know what had happened and the entire class followed us back to shore. We monitored her closely and luckily she was OK. It was then that she told us that she had had a near death drowning experience as a child and she had a deathly fear of the water. She was taking the course to overcome her fear. She couldn’t contain her fear anymore and simply panicked. I was like WTF!!!! A scuba class is NOT therapy for overcoming water phobias!!! My Instructor would not allow her to finish the class that weekend but he did counsel her on what to do if she wanted to come back at a later date. She did come back a month or so later and finished one on one with my Instructor, myself and another assistant. She did just fine the second go around. Moral of the story is treat every student as if they’re at the same (lowest) level of comfort and ability and never ever let your guard down. Not for a single second.
Hi Jack could you please advise me me on the best wetsuit for diving off of Gibraltar?
John Connelly Hey John...I know that the water temps there at this time of year range between 62 - 70 degrees Fahrenheit. For me, being from Texas and used to diving in temperatures of 80 - 90 degrees, 62 degrees is very chilly for me. I don’t know where you’re from or what brands are available to you but I would suggest a 5 millimeter 2 piece Farmer John. As far as brands I’m a US Diver/Aqualung/Seaquest fan so I’d choose the Aqualung or Seaquest. Henderson also makes a great wetsuit as well as NeoSport, Mares and ScubaPro. I personally don’t like hoodies so that one is your preference. Medium weight gloves should do the trick for your hands. Be sure to do a buoyancy check before your first dive. I hope this helps. Have a great trip and safe travels to you.
Jack G. Hey Jack, as you wrote above that's the right way to do it, In Europe we are mostly training in lakes and rivers, so our training is more complex due to low visibility during the summer season (sometimes around 3-6 m). Also, our training is focused on buoyancy control in low depth 5-10 m so the most critical depth for equalising and buoyancy control. One thing what is scary about this video is the fact, plenty of certified divers even professional divers (DM, OWSI etc..) are using strange methods and drills, like using a BCD for ascending...this could be life-threatening when something goes wrong during the ascent. I saw divers missing me like a rocket and they didn't realize something is going wrong because they were played with the camera or the gear.
Can someone give me the tltr
@@marksman_airsoft4565 The star student of the class nearly drowned as a child and was learning scuba to overcome that fear, but never warned anybody. Panic attack at 30ft during OW, inflated BCD to max, then vomited on her divemaster twice.
I often dive alone in freshwater lakes. I have 2 rules for this. I never go deeper than 25 feet and I never am farther than an easy swim to shore. I never had a problem in 20 + years of doing this. Last summer I had my secondary regulator start free flowing 20 feet down. It was no big deal because I follow those 2 rules!!
I totally agree that the number of dives and the quality of the gear does say puppy nothing about the skill of a diver. I once was on a diving safari in Thailand. On the boat were two dudes (a buddy team) with excellent and expensive gear. The first thing one of the guys said to me was: "Listen kid, I'm a pro". Apparently the guy was a dive guide at some dive shack at koh tao island and had a divers log as big as his puppy ego - I remember him saying that he had beyond 1000 dives. The other guy was a wealthy Russian tourist with something about 150 dives and an array of go pros with him. At the time I had about 30 dives and my only own gear was a mask and cheap diving computer. My buddy had about 50 dives and owned only her mask.
When we hit the water chaos break loose. It began at the surface, where the "pro"-diver would decent without signaling "ok" to the boat or our dive guide. We checked with the dive guide and started to decent to meet with the guy under water. I looked at my buddy and we started to coordinate our decent so we would have the same speed and have visual contact. At around 5 meters I looked up to check where our guide was. She was still close to the surface, trying to pull the Russian guy down. Apparently the guy was too buoyant and could not deflate his BCD properly. The "pro" was out of sight at the bottom - out of the depth limit of this dive. Eventually our guide could help the Russian to deflate his BCD. The guy sank like a rock. Apparently the dude had no idea how to control his buoyancy. Somehow me managed to meet at the bottom, where the guide had captured the strolling "pro". After energetic signaling from our guide that everyone should stay close to his/her buddy and that we should stay within visual range to the guide, we continued the dive. Immediately "pro" and Russian dude separated from the group in different directions. Russian went to pick up starfish and swim through small openings (still without being properly bouyant and crashing into everything). This forced our guide to call the dive. We ascended to the safety stop. Where the guide would check for our remaining air for the first time. "Pro" had only 20 bar left - after barely 15 minutes into the dive. He had just a crazy high air consumption.
This buddy team kept diving for the rest of the safari - but they where kept under close surveillance of the guides. They had a combined experience with far beyond thousand dives and gear and cameras of the worth of a new hatchback - but those two where the most puppy divers I have ever seen.
Roman Podolski a haughty spirit comes before a fall.
Woah that sounds like a recipe for disaster. It's a good thing no one got hurt. I wonder where the Russian guy was certified that he doesn't seem to mind displaying disruptive behaviour to marine habitats
@@hannahtriz probably in Russia. They could give a fuk about caring about nature
russians, say no more
Lesson learned for me, always bring a back up light on a night dive. Looking back it should have been obvious. I was on a night dive in San Diego in the kelp beds. 1/2 way through the dive my buddies light failed. Luckily we were close enough to each other that we could make physical contact because, sure enough, my light failed soon after. We ended up using the glow from our gauges to find a small bubble to follow to gauge our ascent speed and thankfully came up near the boat. This could have easily gone very badly.
So, yes this video is a long one.... but PUPPY! it's a really good one! Lessons definitely were learned from these stories.
that last one.... what the puppy were they doing at 30m if they only had OW....
here is my story; I was doing the search and Recovery specialty in a fresh water lake at about 15m. I was in the middle of a search exercise near the bottom when a couple divers swam passed me in the opposite direction. suddenly I found my self in what seemed like a HUGE cloud of debris, unable to see the palm of my hand in front of me. for a fraction of a second I thought about shooting upwards but quickly mentally slapped myself.... i then recalled I took compass heading near the shore line. so i decided to swim in the opposite direction of where the shore is making sure i remained at the same depth using my computer....I eventually swam clear of the cloud of debris and got a good lesson on how to stay "cool" in an uncomfortable situation.
I surfaced from a dive after having gotten a bit lost, and was over very deep water. I was a bit rattled from having gotten lost, and not focused like I should have been. I started handing my gear to my partner on the dinghy. I passed him My BCD, and didn't realize at the time that I still had my weight belt on. I'm here to type this because I didn't let go of the rope on the dinghy. What I learned is BWRAF works in reverse too. B make sure it's inflated, W give your weights to the person on the boat, then Release your BCD and pass it to the person on the boat, (A and F) don't really apply here.
UPDATE:
I just completed my Rescue Diver Course on November 25th 2018! Wanted to mention that I made a discovery about my buoyancy with the weight belt. My weight belt has 14 pounds of lead on it, and that alone is not enough to make me sink with all of my exposure gear. I was floating with no problem. This does not in any way change the importance of the above comment, it remains important to stay focused and BWR from above still applies.
AF - and float. :-)
"'as we are independent divers'" hmm hmm'! 🤣🤣🤣
My first real wreck dive was an interesting one. I needed to do this dive in order to get my advanced certification, it was the last out of all the 5 dives. In the morning I alreaded felt a little nauseous but decided to go on the boat anyway. My instructor was training another couple for their first deep dive on the same dive. I was feeling comfortable once we were descended to about 30m. However after like 15 min. into the dive I literally got a little sick into my regulator. I signaled to my buddy/instructor that I wasn't feeling well so we shallowed up as she thought I was uncomfortable with too many people around. As one of the other divers was going through his air faster than I do through my underwear we ascended shortly after.
I ended up skipping the 2nd dive of the day, however I still successfully received my AOW certificate. End of the stroy: just do not go diving when you#re not feeling 100%
alisak you need more than one pair of underwear per dive? You may have gastroenteritis. Joke
Don't drink before you dive and don't learn with PADI.
@@byteme9718 Why not learn with PADI? What do you suggest otherwise?
@@bgrossman You're far better off learning to dive with a club that will take an interest in you rather than just take your money. BSAC in the UK are excellent, the training is to a far higher standard and there is always used equipment being sold.
@@bgrossman PADI are just a training organisation and its instructors who often work illegaly. They are paid per student and it is in their interest to pass everyone. Open Water qualification is frequently done with no prior knowledge in just two days which is a recipe for disaster . I've actually witnessed one fatality when a group of PADI OW students were on their qualifying open water dives. The instructor and five school didnt even want to take responsibility for the body and it was left to another five school.
There are good PADI instructors but there's no money teaching courses over the extended period it should be conducted over. Four to six weeks is good with two sessions a week, one theory and one in the water. At that rate students have time to take on, understand and memorise theory and build confidence so when they're actually in open water they're able to handle themselves. Just as important is the fact that when, as they usually do, come back from a short holiday break, they're in a better position in a years time to get back in the water.
I was on a dive trip to Grand Cayman. I was diving alone so the dive master asked me to buddy dive with a married couple. By the way, the dive master only dove for half the dive, then went back to the boat. The problem was that this other couple was more concerned with exploring than making sure that their "buddy" was safe. I have an advanced certification, but that doesn't mean that I'm that great a diver since I only dive once a year. On this dive, I was careful to check my gauge and decided not to stray too far from the boat, wanting to end the dive with 500 PSI in my tank. However, this couple wanted to wonder off to who knows where. When we got back on the boat, the male diver made a critical comment to the dive master that he didn't want to dive with me if I constantly checked my gauge (I didn't constantly check my gauge, but I was aware of the status of my air). This experience has caused me to feel apprehensive about going on dive trips where I have to buddy up with someone else. Kind of a bummer.
This is why I stopped diving~ It's too expensive, dangerous,laborious to be surprised...I would like to buy my own ⛵& move islands
@@pamspencer5733
Not that I have given up diving, As a matter of fact I tend to dive deeper and longer (technical diving).
But would agree with you on the boat, sale the Caribbean in winter and come north in summer.
@@markgiltner7358 Yes or Indo even better,less crime,safer for females,super friendly people🤙🧜❣️🙏
Interesting stories!! , I had a bit of a scary run in a few days ago!, me and my buddy partner was diving with a divemaster and a group of 6 just a bit away from Broughton Island Australia, the dive there consists of swimming between a huge crack straight through an island, it only goes about 19 metres down, but the scary part is, on the way back I notice my tank is down to 100psi, I signal my partner that I'm low and signals me to grab the attention of the divemaster, I turn around and notice where at the back of the group and cant locate the divemaster, so we carry on, there was a bit of a surge underwater and due to myself not being super experienced and slight panic I try swimming forwards regardless of the surge, which as you can guess, burns through the little amount of air I have left, we get through to where we began our dive and notice my dive master, i look down at my gauge and i have 20 psi left, I signal to him im out of Air, because of the surge my dive buddy was a bit further back so the only option i had was to get to my divemaster, I got to him just in time as the last of the air left the tank, luckily we where at our saftey stop and we hovered there for 5 minutes sharing air. I understand this was to me, in my lack of experience and poor choices and my panic, but I can definitely tell you I'm never kicking into a surge like a fool again and practising my breathing techniques. they teach you it in the training how to deal with low air but i never thought id get put into that situation, I certainly learned the hard way!
Kyran Cressey scary dude. What can we learn from this? Check psi regularly? I’m not a diver btw
On my last dive a few years ago ( busy life and low on money) my instructor/friend asked me to body up with one of his new students that had some "difficulties" compared to the other students. The plan was to do a check on top and again at 30ft and as soon as we started descending I noticed his first stage was leaking but the guy wasn't paying attention to me at all, going head down like it's a race to the bottom 😩. I grabbed him by the fins at around 19ft ( not so bad I thought its better than 30ft saving a bit more air while I get it to stop leaking). So I gived him my octo which he started sucking on like a hungry child on his mother's breast 😐. I thought ok he is nervous, to him its scary. and I noticed he was trying to infalt his BCD, but I had his first stage off by then, so no harm I thought and focused my attention on fixing the leak. Took me a few moments/ trys but finally bubbly free at last 🥳. I take his second stage pull my octo from him and pushed his 2nd into his mouth and purged it . I ok him he oks me back. All good now 😌 nodded him to check me and he gives me OK . I check the depth and we are 90ft 😱 . That guy was really something else it turns out he was pushing his inflation/ deflation and when nothing happened he grabbed mine and deflated the shit out of it 🤯 . How do I know he was holding on to it 😒. Does the story stops here, No it doesn't. Looking around for the others and looking up i saw it . A string of bubbles coming from my 1st stage 😓 and the guy was off like a rocket swimming away from me as fast as he can 😰( perhaps making up for the time I made him hold still which he didn't in the worst way possible) . I don't remember what my air read this was a few years ago but things where miserable that I remember very well. Anyway I started calming my breathing, took off my BCD flipped it around, kept focusing on depth and some how managed to fix the leak without going up or down. The story doesn't end here but I guess you know that already 😆. I'm alone now and low on air . So I go in the general direction that guy went to, and luckily I find the group and the guy with them . I come up to the instructor and signal him I'm going up and showed him my air . He was shocked I could tell 🥴. I signal the instructor with two fingers to keep both his eyes on that guy and I go to hold the boats anchor line at 15ft to do my deco now I'm well in the red but its fine now I was going to do as much as I can and if I can't get air I will go out. But yes the story doesn't end here. I was breathing deep and slow and after 3 minutes or so started it be difficult to breathe and boom 💥 out of no where the instructor and guy are next to me and something was wrong the instructor was panicking. And when I saw it I panicked too . The guy,... his mask was filled with blood and his movement was everywhere. WTF . both of us took him up and I remember my heart was racing and on the top some yelling happened. But it turns up that the guy has a condition that he gets nose bleeding and just didn't clear his mask 🤬.
Lessons learned. No1 A type 1STs are shit , no2 never trust no body, no3 always pay attention to your depth and finally no4 always be nice to you mother 💯 .
I miss diving although the last one was a memorable one lol.
Omg thats terrible
3 person buddy team is actually pretty good if the divers are familiar with team diving
On my rescue course (as a part of my divemaster internship) as a crew we were doing liftbag skills and quick search patterns (total dive time was supposed to be 40mins at 8-10m)
I (along with a few others) took a 7L cylinder which I would often do for guided customer dives or fun dives without any problems lasting 50mins and coming up with a reserve of 70bar.
After our skills the instructor signalled that we would be going back to a specific mooring line, to ascend to the boat. When we arrived at the mooring there was a school of leopard sharks just off line and as a crew we stayed for another 10 minutes prior to ascending.
At our safety stop (not reqd but procedure) I ran out of air (initially thought a buddy was playing with my cylinder) and had to buddy breathe with another candidate to the surface (where I then orally inflated)
Best possible scenario on the best possible dive, but an awesome lesson in monitoring your air and not being complacent, will not be running out of air EVER again 🤙🏽
So, dumb question, but one i feel I need to ask...
I'm not a diver (hoping to get certified next year) but i am a firefighter and out SCBAs have low air alarms that go off at about 1/3 remaining air. Do SCUBA systems not have some sort of built in air alarm?
I have only completed my OWD course so i may have just not come across an alarm system but throughout the course there was no use of any low air alarms so we were told to check regularly
Cthippo1 "Do SCUBA systems not have some sort of built in air alarm?"
Back before submersible pressure gauges were available there were a few regulators on the market that would vibrate or otherwise signal low pressure, but most didn't and we relied on our dive watches to estimate our remaining air. (We also had reserve levers to flip if we ran low that gave us a few more minutes of air. Look up "J-valve" for more info on those.) Now that we have SPGs and "air integrated" dive computers, alarms and J-valves are considered superfluous.
@@Cthippo1 no really just your gages. I believe an air intergrated dive computer can give alarm but wont be like that of an scba
The world needs more videos like this.
When we started to inflate the BCDs to ascend? who certified this PUPPY divers?
I was wondering that myself...I am pretty new, just an OW cert but I thought to ascend you just....ya know...swim up a bit...and you get more buoyant.
You’re supposed to DEFLATE as you ascend, so that you prevent a runaway ascent. Scuba diving is supposed to be a bit of a healthy workout so there’s nothing wrong with having to kick a little bit to rise. But it’s horrible if you have a runaway ascent. You can get DCS
Yh, even in my trial dive (I’m not certified yet) we had to swim up the surface. Inflating your BCD is lazy
@@tayetrotman No it is extremely dangerous and stupid
Been diving 33 years, man I could tell you some stories lol. Many are other divers but some are mine.
Like the day I got the nickname roadmap.
Forgot to hook up inflator whip to my dry suit. At 70 feet the squeeze was unbearable. Later at the motel room it's a holy S ! Moment, just picture that vulcanized suit being squeezed at 70 feet, yea my skin showed every crease and wrinkle of that suit. They called me roadmap the rest of the trip. Lol
I bought a new weight belt and on the first dive with it the buckle came off and I lost my weight belt at 70 feet. I flew up to 30 feet but got the divemasters attention and he grabbed my arm and we kicked hard to get to the belt. He rethreaded the buckle while I held the weight and got it back on me. Now I will always check the thread of the buckles if I use a rental or buy a new one. Nobody ever checks these. Luckily training kicked in and I flared and instead of singing I was screaming on the way up!
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You guys are hilarious and I love your stories. :)) Thank you for sharing!
I was diving in Marsa Alam with emperor .It was my first cave dive basically just follow the person in front of you everything was going smoothly until my friend in front for some reason ascended and hit his head on the ceiling he panicked and moved really fast to follow the person in front of him. I tried my best could not keep up ,so now I enter a one person entry cave go through and end up in a corner can't see any opening stood there person behind me comes through the single hole he is also standing Parelell to me pretty soon there are three of us no one knowing what to do I spot a opening up on the ceiling follow it end up on top of the reef not my proudest moment I'm like a fish out of water on top of the coral roof then after a while lead instructor comes through the hole through the cieling and pulls me back in.Now that opening is named after me and is called Reuben's exit .I am now the butt of jokes every dive trip FML
Yyy 😂😂😂 i was there heard the Story
@JASON VOORHEES Stay out of caves, unless you're a trained cave diver!!
@@wiktoriode no, he's right... just stay out of caves.
@@David-ql1hd why? Caves are beautiful and fun to dive in when you got the certification and training to do do safely.
I was in the Med off the south coast of France (Rescue Diver - 100+ dives at this point). Hadn't dived in about a year and had requested a nice easy / shallow dive to get back into the swing of things. During the dive brief (30 seconds at most) it turns out we are going to 34m and there's going to be a current... So they all jump off the rib and immediately start descending way too fast. I take a few moments longer on the descent and as I arrive I see a cloud of bottom sand / silt thrown up by the rest of the group. I can't see a thing, so i wait patiently for the cloud to dissipate. As it does, I realise the group has vanished. Count to 60 with a few 360's - nothing. I carefully ascend back to the surface, grab hold of the rib, where the pilot only speaks French. About 40 minutes later they surface with an "oh there you are!" Paid my bill for the one dive and left the 5 Star Padi dive shop never to return.
Whilst guiding a dive for newly certified divers at around 15m, just before our turning point I noticed two divers below me at around 25m I recognized the pair as newly certified divers from the boat I worked they saw that I signed for them to buddy on me so they come over and I find that the pair are at around 60 bar, as a new owsi myself my guard was firmly up and I quickly checked air on the other divers, turned the divers and luckily a drop tank was always placed at the deco stop as there was an advanced course also diving, they managed to make it back to the deco stop at around 30bar and then complete the decomp, but it gave me a lesson be organized and prepared for the worst outcome,
These were the best to listen too!
I had a panic attack during mask clearing drill in my AOW although I managed to do it fine during my OW. Idk why but i felt like I couldn’t breathe or take in the oxygen although I had the regulator in my mouth. And It was so weird. i couldn’t see or hear so immediately my conscious became like my best friend and instructor. and I was mentally trying to calm myself down and it felt like my mental self was just talking to my physical self like Germaine calm the shit down and breathe slowly you have the regulator so just breathe okay you can do it don’t ascend just breathe you are okay but physically my body just felt like it couldn’t take in the oxygen no matter how hard I try to breathe. But I’m very lucky that although I was having a panic attack I was still able to calm myself down and think properly although it took a while for my body to physically calm down and breathe normally again.
That was God working with you, mate. 🙏 Same thing has happened to me before. I have quiiiiite a few stories of God helping me on dives. Actually, now that I think about it, all of them. He's the best dive buddy. None of us go down without Him, even if we don't realize that we are. 🙏🙏🙏
Exactly the same thing happened to me as I was 10 meters down practicing mask cleaning. The moment my eyes and nose are exposed to water, I couldn’t breathe even though mouth piece was well working and placed. Signalled my instructor that I’m okay as I knew after my fight against that unreasonable urge not allowing me to breathe I will be breathing again.
Had to fight against that urge for 20 seconds before I could breathe again, leaving me coughing badly underwater but okay.
This sport seems to be no joke. One has to be very calm and alert all the time.
When I was getting my advanced certification, my puppy instructor hid his knife for me to practice search patterns. Now, he claims he told me this before the dive; either he lied (unlikely), he forgot that he forgot to tell me (more likely), or my ADHD got the better of me and I wasn't listening when he told me he was going to hide it (most likely). Shortly after he did so, the current picked up immensely and the visibility went from around 100 feet to 30. He hid it on a slope, so I was going from about 50 feet to 20 feet in a variety of search patterns. After ten minutes, I thought I was done. He writes on his slate "Did you find it?" I write "Find what?" He got understandably angry and told me he hid his knife, and I spent another half hour looking for the puppy thing in extremely intense current (I am small and use little air.) He looked too and couldn't find it. Either he hid it so well he forgot where it was, the current got it, or another diver stole it (we were at a resort in Bonaire near a somewhat popular wreck.) Main takeaway? Make sure you take your Ritalin while you're planning your dive with your buddy/instructor.
Do the meds affect your diving?
I absolutely love your content. In the upcoming summer I will finally work on getting scuba diving licence, and your videos are giving me better views on the whole sport. Keep the dank puppy up
Ahhh, thank you very much, Ben! ☺️
Hey Mark, do you recall the bit where Falco mentioned that the lost diver had been under an overhang? I feel like the overhang could, you know, catch some of the bubbles potentially, preventing them from being spotted higher up (swimming to and from said overhang non-withstanding. ) *Wink*
Once in the Philippines, at around 35m below the surface, my second stage and the mouthpiece disconnected. The mouthpiece still in my mouth, I was staring at the 2nd stage freeflowing around, like the high pressured hose of a firetruck left unattended.
NARCED ! I ... inhaled and realized what I was doing only when my mouth and nose gott filled up of water. I quickly grabbed my alternate, ascended a little bit... I was fine !
Furious, I went to talk to the owner of the dive centre who told me that the zip tie sealing firmly the moutpiece on the 2nd stage was probably missing before i went to the water ....
Another think I am paying attention to now !
Where did you dive in the Philippines? Do you happen to remember the name of the dive shop or dive resort?
.... and that's why I always take my own gear with me.
very entertaining stories and nice footage of the dive
10:10 Never seen that spread-eagle finning technique before. Interesting.
Deep Diving and ascend with BCD...oh boy
Who's their instructor? I just wanna ask them a few questions....ahahaha
I did that cenote dive in Mexico too, pretty sketchy dive for someone with less than 20 dives.
Great stories! Very interesting haha 😊
You’ve said “my buddy" so many times in this video I’m surprised Hasbro didn’t put an advert before it!
i see that all the videos are from Egyptian dive sites... i like that!
This vid was so 🐶 amazing
I love this channel! but can you please put up a feet to meters when you talk about it, i mean all i need is just the number, just an animation
i mean daym! metric for life. . . . . . . . because it makes cents
1meter=3ft (appx).
That last dive would've had me showing him a different hand signal and would've ascended with or w/o him!
No one could make me do an unsafe dive - especially when I'm not trained or geared for!
Thanks for the great content, and the naughty filter! Really appreciate that !
So much for people diving with the rules of thirds.
Joe kle PADI doesn’t teach open water divers to primarily use the rule of thirds anymore. They had us calculate turn pressure for each dive given our exact PSI and an 800 PSI reserve
Shawn K that's crazy at 30ft it's OK but not at 60+. In all honesty sdi is a much better program. I'd advise people to do both certification. Padi only because it's excepted everywhere.
Yeah, it's certainly not the most conservative method. My dad's a Padi divemaster but he was certified back in '95 and they learned to go by the rule of thirds. I just got open water so I was in their most recent course. Didn't really teach us squat about tables either but that does make sense when you consider the availability and reliability of today's computers.
Shawn K You only need tables when you doing technical dives. The rest you can use your computer with out any issues. Padi now a days just want to get people in the water as fast as they can. It's become like every other business. Being you just have your open water check into sdi to advance your certifications. If your the kind of guy who like all the fine details you will like sdi and tdi.
Computers and tables? Are you setting up an office down there? Man....watch waterworld you might learn something! And forget about sdi and gti it’s all about electric cars now.
If you're using an octo that also functions as an inflator for your BCD and have a snorkel equipped. Be very sure that you are grabbing the octo and not a suicide straw when switching to it or else you're puppied.
No story but, beginner diver here. I have fins, mask, snorkel, bootie, hood and gloves. I’ve been on 2 dives since I started about 3 months ago and I was wondering if someone could help me. I need a cheap but good entry level BCD, Octo, Reg and Gauges? Any suggestions?
Isaia Wright my advise is go ask the guys at your local dive shop
Depends on the kind of diving you’ll be doing as well as the location and if you’re travelling with it 👌🏼
‘Travel’ BCD’s are super light weight but often rear-inflation meaning that they will hold you in a horizontal (belly to the bottom) position which is great for diving, but not great for surface skills or spending a lot of time vertically.
The lift on these BCDs can often also be less than that of a traditional jacket style, which may be a factor for you (if you’re drysuit or cold water diving with lots of weight)
It can definitely be more cost effective to purchase a second hand BCD (gumtree, Facebook, Craigslist) but make sure you take apart all of the dump valves, wash, lubricate and reassemble before use to ensure the gear is safe, or have your LDC check it over for you if you’re not confident to do it yourself.
As a beginner there is not a lot of variance in a set of regulators, many divers (myself included) purchase second hand regulators to start off with, but be sure to have them fully serviced before you dive with them. (I’ve since had multiple new sets, but it’s a great way to get quality gear at a reduced price, just never trust how many dives the seller says they’ve done with the gear)
For reference I now dive with an oceanic excursion (rear inflation BCD) and oceanic FDX10 first stage with Zeo primary 2nd and alpha a9 safe second.
I have a cheap problue SPG and dive with a Suunto D6I air integrated wrist computer with a transmitter on my regulators first stage.
Get a bit of experience with rental gear first, and ask experienced divers to show you their gear. When you have more logged dives (20-30), you should have a better idea of your style of diving and the equipment that suits you best. Don't rush into buying equipment. I'd also advise not to buy entry level gear, better quality is a bit more expensive but will last much longer and is much more comfortable to dive with
If you still haven't bought your own BC, Octo, Reg, etc. don't buy any of them. Instead get a metal backplate, wing and a DIR setup for your regulators (meaning your primary second stage is attached via a 2.1m or 7ft long hose and your backup is attached by a 22-24 inch or 50-60cm short hose and strapped around your neck with a bungee). Look at these videos
th-cam.com/video/iA0QOqG1zmk/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/G4G7Do4Q4Kk/w-d-xo.html
Story #2 almost gave me a heart attack. 😬 Holy...puppies. 😅😅😅 I'd give grace to the balloon diver in story #1, but after the 2nd dive of her doing that, I would NOT go down with her ever again. I'd keep BOTH of us on the boat or find another buddy for me. But I'm not putting either of our lives at risk if she's having a bad day like that and certainly not going down a THIRD time with her! 😰☠️☠️☠️ Too many bad buddies in my life. I tell everyone up front, even my friends who wanna get certified, that I'll only dive with them if they're a smart/not stupid diver, aka not like the "SURPRISE!" "independent" "balloon" "photographer" divers talked about here! 😂😂😂😂😂
Great one!!
Thank you very much Hannah :D
I almost died 2 days ago, I had a CO2 build up at 100feet while starting to ascend, it caused me to start shallow hyperventilating while i was kicking up, which basically lead to a bit of an anxiety attack I guess because I couldn't intake enough oxygen. Had i just emptied my lungs entirely, I probably would have been able to breathe again normally. I had to emergency ascend to the surface, in less than a minute. Don't want to experience that again, totally cheated death in multiple ways.
Robert Harris can be scary to empty ones lungs when one feels the physical urge to do the opposite. Some people practise this sitch regularly on land, saves lives.
I've now watched 5 or 6 youtube videos about diving..... just bought a bunch of old used dive equipment on CL .....tomorrow I make my first dive, alone and going deep into a cave .....going to find out what's all the fuss about with this sport..........
Mark, I am a recently certified Open Water Diver. I do plan on eventually advancing my training, but for now I just want to gain experience. I am doing this by doing local lake clean ups. My problem is that I mostly don't like people. I am interested in diving because I love the aquatic life forms and find them interesting and beautiful, but I love the solitude of being underwater and undisturbed by human interaction. This is not a good thing I guess because all my training tells me I should have a buddy to dive with. However I am diving in waters probably no more than 15 meters deep and do this solo. my reasoning is that I am not too deep to make a quick surface if need be.I practice my skills on every dive, I plan my depth and time carefully so as to not exceed any limits.I mentioned all this because I would like your opinion on this matter. Am I reasonably safe in diving this way?
Since no one replied I will. I am a newbeginner with only OWD and a few specialty courses.
It is not safe to dive alone no matter which depth. Something could go wrong with the equipment, you can hurt yourself or lose your conscience for any reason whatsoever. The point of a buddy is also to have someone who can drag you up and call for help if the puppy ever hits the fan.
@@marcusmartinez1660 you have to dive with someone you trust too. A buddy not paying attention is just as bad
@Gee first of all I hope you're still alive and well. Diving alone 15 meters deep is very dangerous as going up quickly from this depth, in case your first stage fails, will probably cause decompression sickness.
So please never dive alone.
Noob question; don't use you bcd to ascend? How else do you ascend? Just swim up? Wouldn't the weights just drag you back down?
Alway swim up, the air in you bcd expands when you ascend causing you too shoot up to the surface if you aren't paying attention.
without your bcd, you will drown yes..... if its done, then have you Luck when you can breath amd only your bcd is broken or youre in Trouble in ² and need support from your buddy.
Quickrelease the weight is then the last option when youre Buddy are broke or unable to reach you.....
And HOPE and Relax, Panicing and youre in trouble ³
You have both the weights (negative buoyancy, that try to drag you down) and the BCD+wetsuit (positive buoyancy, that try to keep you float).
You have to carefully adjust the weights and the air inside the BCD to reach a neutral position (neutral buoyancy).
Now you are perfectly still and you can simply swim up or down.
For safety reasons you have to ascend SLOWLY, this is why you shouldn't use the BCD to ascend (is definitely better to use the BCD to maintain the neutral buoyancy and control the ascent with swim).
In Thistlegorm I was the first in the water, hanging on to a line next to the boat Exhaust. After 1-3 minutes I felt a bit dizzy. After Descending to the lowest part of the wreck I was extremely dizzy and signed to abort the dive and go to safety-stop. Note to self! Don't ever do that again.
ive got a good one on my first dive attempt ever my bcd failed completley and i sank like a rock leading to panicking and alot of swallowed water
Wow what happened?
Was in a well known mine hadn’t dived in 6 months had dive guide went through dive briefing 100 mph and did the dive almost as fast her drill sergeant boyfriend was stressing me out I gave up the rest of the day. Ruined my experience and I couldn’t believe how they put the whole group down the tubes
"A number in your dive long says nothing about your skill as a diver"
Are you listening PADI?
The Deep Diver, so no deep stop? You just finished a dive with a max depth of 150ft, most definitely blew through your NDL, and only did a 5 minute safety stop at 15ft? Gotta wonder how many people needed oxygen after that one. Bet the captain was pissed and probably fired both DM's.
Pay And Die Instantly.
PADI says "insert dollar to keep talking to us"
Puppy the last one is scary!! What the puppy's wrong with that guide!!!
Romain Lepage I thought it was his friend? Obviously not realty much of a buddy?
Solo diving without a SMB, with dead fish on a stringer in an area with sharks. What the puppy?
What the "Puppy" did I watch this video for?, I don't even dive.
Don't use your BCD to descend and ascend? Did they have dry suits?
i was putting my fins on on the boat (they were to small btw) and i dropped one of them in the water and one of the instructors had to get it
Puppppppy.
What the puppy were these guys thinking?
And they call me reckless cause I solo dive with redundancy systems. 😂
I know who the puppy is reckless!
You said a lot of stuff that sounds very scary
First I'm an underwater photograp her, I go slowly, need a buddy that sticks like glue on my right shoulder then follows my instructions to get the shot. A random buddy that wants to swim at speed to China. I let go. NOW the story. Scapa flow -30yesrs Diving the inverlaine if my memory is right. We dive inside the wreck. I find a seal who comes up to the first daw invites me up to the second dore, pulls me on through. And then dissapears. I was in a room 5 metres by 5 metres, portholes, I can look at the world BUT I could not get through the portholes. Where Is The Door. Nowhere to be seen. At that moment I had the start of Panic... What happens if... This is the point of this message. If you control the point of your panic, you live. I could not go up, left, right, out of the window. The seal was noit there to help me. I went down, found the exit , refound my buddy , who was having a great time
If you feel like making a full length movie on this subject, don’t hassitate and contact me. Ton’s of stories. Some my mistake. Some the mistakes of others. And most, mistakes by the complete team.
One of the best? Diving a shipwreck. Going through the holds at 40 meters. Burning your gas quite fast. Coming up to 30 meters. Telling your DM you’re down to say 80 bars. Which she thinks is plenty to get back inside the wreck. At 30 meters. To have a ceiling for over a 150 meters.
When I got out I was down tot I believe 30/40 bars. With close to 20 minutes of deco.
Never have I been told so fast to get to 21 meter and switch to my decogas.
Told her twice in advance this was a bad idea, getting back inside. She ignored it twice. I make my problem your problem by then. Luckily I stay quit relaxed when I see it coming.
I assisted on a class one time I held the rear of the group in a line and one student started to ascend really fast I tried to communicate to the lead instructor as fast as possible with no luck I had to swim fast to reach the other student starting from 80 ft cought him at 20 ft if I hadn't he could've got injured as well as me he had no intention of safety stop all because he could clear his ears he panicked
Way too few puppies on the last one.
Good think it wasn’t me....ALOT more puppies would have been used!!! And possibly an attempted homicide of said puppy once back to surface!!!
The worst thing that happened to me was that my buddy accidentally kicked my regulator out of my mouth. I recovered it quickly, but I was still a bit pissed at him for not paying attention
Meepy Gurl my instructor did it on purpose to teach me that I have to leave some space for others
The lesson to the last one: never EVER dive with this guy again!!
I'd never dive with any of these people ever again. Not a single one. Safety > everything. 🙏🙏🙏
9;20 not a halocline its more than likely a cloud of hydrogen sulphide
What the PUPPY
a nicely word for %#&#/* (a very bad word) thats make TH-cam happier....
Ha ha ha, hilarious!
That last story made me puppying angry. I would have best the puppy out of that puppying idiot. I have only done one tourist dive in Hawaii and doing a lot of research before I go in for my certificate but all of that stuff was common sense. Thank you for your awesome content. Hopefully I get certified sooner than later.
One time I was out diving with my dad and he saw that my tank was a bit loose but he didn't remember how to signal it to me so he signaled to me go up and we slowly started to go op but suddenly he was below me and grabbed my tank and I was stil going op so when he grabbed my tank and pulled me close to him so he could fix my tank (I still didn't know it was him) I when in to panic because I didn't know what was poling me down so I started to kick harder and twist and stop and burning thru my air and suddenly he let me loose and I flew op to the surface and looked all over the place then he slowly came op and said something grabbed me and pulled me down he said yeah that was me ur tank looked a bit loose and I just looked at him and said what the puppy is wrong with u say it next time my heat was beating so fast stil he couldn't se the problem he just thought I can easily do this he wouldn't even notice instead gave me a panic attack thankfully it wasn't to deep down so I didn't get sick or injured
Puppy lol
Naughty puppies
Showing how idiot he was by saying “ascending by inflating the BCD” and didn’t even realize what’s wrong is pure ignorance.
I wanna know how many times Mark said: Scuba Diving in his life :p
I think the tally is at least ten times... i think don't hold me to that thouigh - Shaun
I wanna say, that thanks to the video: How to be a Scuba Diver I signed up for a course! So thanks Mark and all the team :D
Don't complain to PADI, because they may take away your scuba diving cards if you complain! I complained about sexual harassment and poor quality training and they refuse to issue me my 2 diving cards!
for a newbie
dont drop your cylinder on my toe please it hurts
What the actual pup is going on ?
Spearfishing and scuba diving is forbidden for a reason. Lear how to freedive if you wanna do spearfishing!!
My ducking dive buddy unhooked his tank and held his breath Below 90000000000 meters
Plot twist: His tank was a Spare-air
You escaped hell. He surely died
Many people attempt to learn to dive because. Others want them to. This person afraid of fish should never dive.
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Why would any one want to do any thing remotely safe while diving? That is no fun. After all, what would you have to write about if every one were safe?
the saying is fifth wheel..... NOT THIRD WHEEL!!!!! three wheels can work together successfully as a group, whereas a FIFTH wheel is odd, cumbersome, out of place and unnecessary..... ok? GEEZE!!!! STOP SAYING THIRD WHEEL PEOPLE!!!!!! just because there are 3 people in the group doesn't mean you say "third wheel".
Would you rather us say sixth fin?
Third bodily fluid?
Clueless and the shameless.
The best lesson to be learned should be at the very beginning. NEVER learn to dive with PADI.
Can I not find a free audio "show" on the internet that doesn't have to include pointless stock footage and substitute all off-colour language with the word "puppy"?