I agree the most with the last one, don't dive if you don't feel well, not confident or something just doesn't feel right. I would not want a person as my buddy if they are not "ready' for the dive. And never let anyone pressure you into diving if you don't want to, also you don't want that person as your dive buddy.
u missed one that sorta goes with the not feeling well. make sure u go over the water temps and if u think u dont got the right thickness protection for your wetsuit for the water temp. i had to save someone when i was doing my open water. the person said they had a 5mm wetsuit but it really was only a 3mm. the water temp was too cold for 3mm. the person did the im not feeling well hand signal but i was the only one that seen it. luckily i had a bell on a string i can bang against my tank to alert everyone. the person was almost passed out by the time we got her to the surface. never dive if u do not know the water temp. u can die. the nitrogen build up is quicker if u are really cold.
I had an o-ring blow out on a dive. I had extra o-rings, but I didn't have the correct size o-ring. Thankfully, the dive instructor had every size o-ring. You should never go diving right after someone increases your life insurance policy, at least, not with the person who had it increased.
My O ring exploded when I was finished from a dive taking off my BCD and unstrapping my tank I felt so bad for my instructor he had to go walk around the boat while it was moving just to find my O ring then he found It and I was like “This guy should get paint more”
If you don't feel comfortable with the buddy you've been paired with. If they seem 'squirrely' or too laid back, or not willing to coordinate things before you jump in togethed...then better to sit it out. I've learned that my gut instinct about someone has usually been right.
Due to too many of those "random pairings' I've come to realize that we are always diving alone. 9 out of 10 times I am paired with a 'buddy' that isn't prepared, doesn't show awareness, and I generally spend more time making sure they are ok than enjoying the dive. I've started doing dives by myself lately, it's much more convenient (depending on location and charter) and prevents me from being a baby sitter to someone that doesn't want to actually learn. At the same time I tend to dive alone as a rescue diver in proximity to others to ensure they are g2g at the end of their dive, so I guess its a mixed bag. Don't want the bother, but am ok with the burden. Looping back, I probably wouldn't exclude doing a dive because a 'buddy' is squirrely, cause you are missing a dive. More be attentive to their needs if you actually want to dive at that moment. Its pretty much what we do most of the time anyway, just with a bit of additional chaos theory involved.
My #1: a stuffy nose or any sort of congestion. Can't clear on the way down, oh well scrub the dive....can't clear on the way up, man you're officially hosed.
As someone with chronic Nasal swelling I can confirm this is a constant worry. I did find on one dive that, on the way down at about 15m, I couldn't clear one ear going down, but couldn't ascend as the other ear wouldn't clear going up. A minute of calm hovering eventually did it but it was a serious worry
Talking of rental gear: I once dived with a buddy who was an experienced diver but hadn’t brought his equipment and rented instead. After 40 min he needed my octo as he had used all his air on clearing his leaking mask.
If you plan on diving in cold water, make sure your wetsuit doesn't have too many holes. I went diving with a rented 7mm wetsuit in California that had holes in the knees and armpits. It was my first experience ever scuba diving and I loved it. But my lips were blue and I was aggressively shivering the whole time because water kept circulating through my suit lmao.
if you're having congestion issues. Much like with your sinuses, fluids can block off a portion of your lungs at depth and cause a lung overexpansion injury on ascent which can be fatal if severe.
Never go diving in a situation you haven't trained for, unless it is during said training. This includes everything from strong current, low visibility, or cold water diving, to cavern, cave, wreck, or ice diving.
first time i went to 80 ft my gauges started to fail and i had to swim to my buddy and look at how deep we went down my psi was still working thankfully lol
Why never dive alone? (in this video) Other people doing other exstremesports alone. This "not dive alone" ting is taboo, always been. Many dive alone, but never talk about it, Why? They afraid too get called an idiot and other things, Right? I got aprox 250 coldwater dives. 50 of these are solodives, idiot or not, i love it. But i always have an stagebottle 7 liter 200 bar on my side. I am not afraid too tell any about my solodiving, but i not telling them unless people around mee taking about solodiving. Greetings from Norway.
Isn't it time to get Saun moving along the training diver path. his comments would carry so much more weight if he also picked his way along the sometimes tricky road of a novice diver. Great info clips, & keep up the good work.
Don't go diving without a minimum of knowledge about the local underwater fauna. On one of my first-ever dives, I spotted an odd looking fish in a rock crevice and reached my hand out to it. Before long, the fish turned out to be a six-foot moray eel with fierce razor sharp teeth which dashed out of the crevice and disappeared behind me in the blue. The diving instructor asked me after the dive if I was nuts, because a grown moray when startled can bite off your fingers like they're a pack of sausages. Live and learn. 😁
A place that doesn't let you use your own regs? Even if you have the service certificate with you and your reg is appropriately rated for the type of diving you will do? What kinda crap is that? Especially from a place whose own regs are not up to scratch?
@@KimonFrousios I'm aware. I'm less opposed to not using my normal kit but I wish I could dunk my computer in some starsan for a few minutes because it makes it easier to log and track my dive profile. They let you use your mask, from what I've heard, wish the same applied.
With the onset of every state and nation making Maryjane legal it may feel less like "drinking and driving" and more like "having a red bull", but DO NOT DIVE HAF.
While I agree with most of the 'you should never go diving when..' comments and I recognize that you may need to say certain things because of liability. I disagree with the never dive alone bit. We always dive alone, yes we are a safety for everyone around us (from random buddy to group in a class scenario to random non buddy that needs help), but we are first most a safety for ourselves and 'buddies' can actually inhibit that safety gradient at times, it can also inhibit divers from learning in environments that are completely safe with other controls in place. As a dive instructor, have you always had a 'buddy' that fit the requirements of a buddy? I know I wasn't during my open water cert and it was just the instructor and me on those dives... (random thoughts)
1. You are not a scuba diver 2. You're already a mermaid or marine creature. 3. You are allergic to silicone 4. Salty liquids prompt you to swallow rather than spit. 5. You're fresh out of a prolonged tussle with an angry lynx which it kinda won, before stomping off into nearby pines. 6. You're a triffid (just google it, make an effort FFS). 7. Bullhead that you are, you just tore loose of a salt water drop down at the emergency room, to go diving anyway, with the tubes still dangling from the hollows of your elbow joints 8. There is a kind of pretzel quality to your skin. 9. You really should not have been eating all them habanero chilis yesterday and the pushback is juuust beginning to assert itself. 10. Wearing any kind of roller skates, boxing gloves or cement shoes. ... Just my 2 psi
Do tell the place which insists divers use their regs.... I for one would want to put them on my blacklist of idiots never to dive with. Sure a centre my want to check my regs are in service, though no-one has ever asked, but who on earth would insist their rental regs are safer than my Apeks XTX50s:! Name them and shame them.
I’d give 0 credit to cocky people putting ego into overpriced gear vs. what my own professional shop maintains and oversees. Randos usually didn’t read the manual of their l33t gear either.
Just about last night, again ! Into a bug dive (solo) at my usual spot 1/4 mile offshore in heavy shoaling & 0-2 ft viz conditions. So it happens I descend right on my lost gear !! I had to ditch 2 years ago while solo and stuck with a blown valve on my reg....(Told myself then never again alone)...Anyway, untangling and unwedging it then finally Just about get completely free to surface and swell throws me into it hard getting old octo hoses all tangled in my gear (knife bungee & octopus.) Try to reposition and my rubber mouth piece rips open, so I m sucking in 1/2 air and 1/2 H2O. I kid you not, I had to ditch gear again to avoid disaster and barely surfaced. Even though I know the reef and max depth is 40ft. This 2nd near death is my last wake up call. Most don't even get 1 let alone 2
As far as sketchy dive centres are concerned, if I don't like the way they fill their tanks or how the installation looks, I take a pass. As far as solodiving is concerned, I disagree.
@@kennethwilliams1301 Why what, the sketchy dive centres or the solodiving? I'm guessing the solo part. With the right education, equipment, mindset and experience I think it's perfectly OK to engage in solodiving. I know it's a cause of concern and debate with a lot of organisations and individuals, but as far as I'm concerned it' s on a par with other "extreme" sports done solo. And I've seen enough buddy's who were more of a liability then an asset, safety-wise.
I love how you say "hurt" when you mean "die"
I agree the most with the last one, don't dive if you don't feel well, not confident or something just doesn't feel right. I would not want a person as my buddy if they are not "ready' for the dive. And never let anyone pressure you into diving if you don't want to, also you don't want that person as your dive buddy.
I was gonna say...& NEVER ALONE!!!
Love the quip about flat earth in the opening :)
u missed one that sorta goes with the not feeling well.
make sure u go over the water temps and if u think u dont got the right thickness protection for your wetsuit for the water temp.
i had to save someone when i was doing my open water. the person said they had a 5mm wetsuit but it really was only a 3mm. the water temp was too cold for 3mm.
the person did the im not feeling well hand signal but i was the only one that seen it. luckily i had a bell on a string i can bang against my tank to alert everyone.
the person was almost passed out by the time we got her to the surface.
never dive if u do not know the water temp. u can die. the nitrogen build up is quicker if u are really cold.
I had an o-ring blow out on a dive. I had extra o-rings, but I didn't have the correct size o-ring. Thankfully, the dive instructor had every size o-ring. You should never go diving right after someone increases your life insurance policy, at least, not with the person who had it increased.
My O ring exploded when I was finished from a dive taking off my BCD and unstrapping my tank I felt so bad for my instructor he had to go walk around the boat while it was moving just to find my O ring then he found It and I was like “This guy should get paint more”
Drugs at depth: avoid any anti-inflammatory drugs as they have a reverse effect at depth and therefore will result in serious issues upon ascent.
Inanna08 like what?
Anything that reduces swelling.
Can you please post a reference link?
If you don't feel comfortable with the buddy you've been paired with.
If they seem 'squirrely' or too laid back, or not willing to coordinate things before you jump in togethed...then better to sit it out. I've learned that my gut instinct about someone has usually been right.
Due to too many of those "random pairings' I've come to realize that we are always diving alone. 9 out of 10 times I am paired with a 'buddy' that isn't prepared, doesn't show awareness, and I generally spend more time making sure they are ok than enjoying the dive. I've started doing dives by myself lately, it's much more convenient (depending on location and charter) and prevents me from being a baby sitter to someone that doesn't want to actually learn. At the same time I tend to dive alone as a rescue diver in proximity to others to ensure they are g2g at the end of their dive, so I guess its a mixed bag. Don't want the bother, but am ok with the burden.
Looping back, I probably wouldn't exclude doing a dive because a 'buddy' is squirrely, cause you are missing a dive. More be attentive to their needs if you actually want to dive at that moment. Its pretty much what we do most of the time anyway, just with a bit of additional chaos theory involved.
just wait til you become a dive master. then you get to dive with those sorts of people all the time.
@@JohnJones-iq7uj
Spot on
@@JohnJones-iq7uj too bad if the squirrel is the dive master.
My #1: a stuffy nose or any sort of congestion. Can't clear on the way down, oh well scrub the dive....can't clear on the way up, man you're officially hosed.
As someone with chronic Nasal swelling I can confirm this is a constant worry. I did find on one dive that, on the way down at about 15m, I couldn't clear one ear going down, but couldn't ascend as the other ear wouldn't clear going up. A minute of calm hovering eventually did it but it was a serious worry
Talking of rental gear: I once dived with a buddy who was an experienced diver but hadn’t brought his equipment and rented instead. After 40 min he needed my octo as he had used all his air on clearing his leaking mask.
Informative once again!❤
If you plan on diving in cold water, make sure your wetsuit doesn't have too many holes. I went diving with a rented 7mm wetsuit in California that had holes in the knees and armpits. It was my first experience ever scuba diving and I loved it. But my lips were blue and I was aggressively shivering the whole time because water kept circulating through my suit lmao.
Omg I think you actually had some of the early stages of hypothermia
Agreed especially if you aren't feeling well
if you're having congestion issues. Much like with your sinuses, fluids can block off a portion of your lungs at depth and cause a lung overexpansion injury on ascent which can be fatal if severe.
6:57 was the funniest part xD
Title: *You don't have a buddy*
Man: *cries,slowly on the corner*
Preach brother... great info.
Encountering marine life creatures (mother nature), don't interfere with them. If you do, the fun part comes into play.
Somebody needs a red filter
I’m seriously so glad I found this channel. I live in CO and cannot wait to plunge into another blue abyss.
We're glad you found us too PeasleP
You live in carbon monoxide? Well, that's unhealthy.
Yep, had my fair share of sketchy dive centres but a legendary one in Malta made up for it.
Never go diving in a situation you haven't trained for, unless it is during said training. This includes everything from strong current, low visibility, or cold water diving, to cavern, cave, wreck, or ice diving.
Where do you have to use their regulators?
😦 the Stuka bomber dive looked so cool!
I freaking love you guys. ❤️
It's funny how he called the earth a "globe" and then pretended like the earth was flat 😂😂😂
Mark is also the father of the flat earth theory
There is a place that makes you use THEIR regs and THEIR regs only?? I never want to dive there.
The first 10 secs instantly catched me lmao
first time i went to 80 ft my gauges started to fail and i had to swim to my buddy and look at how deep we went down my psi was still working thankfully lol
I rented gear one time, the wetsuit was torn, goggles broke, fins were brand new tho. Everyone else better gear or bought their own
I just need to note that Egypt has some really fine wines! You were just unlucky this time. Next time try _Ayam_ or _Jardin du Nil._
Where was that Stuka crash at?
That's Andre!!!! From the movie 😊😁
Why would a dive location/center require you to use their rental regs, if you have your own?
Dive shop in Philippines gave my wife a regulator without a mouthpiece. If renting don't assume the owner checked the equipment.
When he said "not happy" I thought he meant depressed and I got really worried about divers drowning themselves at 60 ft underwater
Why never dive alone? (in this video) Other people doing other exstremesports alone. This "not dive alone" ting is taboo, always been. Many dive alone, but never talk about it, Why? They afraid too get called an idiot and other things, Right?
I got aprox 250 coldwater dives. 50 of these are solodives, idiot or not, i love it. But i always have an stagebottle 7 liter 200 bar on my side.
I am not afraid too tell any about my solodiving, but i not telling them unless people around mee taking about solodiving.
Greetings from Norway.
Agree. 👌🏻
Isn't it time to get Saun moving along the training diver path. his comments would carry so much more weight if he also picked his way along the sometimes tricky road of a novice diver. Great info clips, & keep up the good work.
6:30 where is that reef located? It's wonderful
Based on the species in the footage (fish, coral, disease, etc.) it looks like it might be Honduras
Don't go diving without a minimum of knowledge about the local underwater fauna. On one of my first-ever dives, I spotted an odd looking fish in a rock crevice and reached my hand out to it. Before long, the fish turned out to be a six-foot moray eel with fierce razor sharp teeth which dashed out of the crevice and disappeared behind me in the blue. The diving instructor asked me after the dive if I was nuts, because a grown moray when startled can bite off your fingers like they're a pack of sausages. Live and learn. 😁
Interacting with any marine life is generally a bad idea. Diving is a spectator sport.
A place that doesn't let you use your own regs? Even if you have the service certificate with you and your reg is appropriately rated for the type of diving you will do? What kinda crap is that? Especially from a place whose own regs are not up to scratch?
Epcot Aquarium doesn't I've been told. Don't know about what other places there are.
This is common for aquariums diving. They don't want you to pass an infection into the tank.
@@YuriyDel Aquariums are special. They don't let you use ANY of your own equipment to avoid contamination.
@@KimonFrousios I'm aware. I'm less opposed to not using my normal kit but I wish I could dunk my computer in some starsan for a few minutes because it makes it easier to log and track my dive profile. They let you use your mask, from what I've heard, wish the same applied.
Cns% deco are some boring safety ones
True story about the threesome. Stop to take a picture of a beautiful coral formation to turn around and my 2 buddies were gone. 🙄
Ben, what happened to you man. We’ve been treading water waiting for you. You made it back and didn’t come looking for me and Stevie.
With the onset of every state and nation making Maryjane legal it may feel less like "drinking and driving" and more like "having a red bull", but DO NOT DIVE HAF.
Diving when you're hungover, not a good thing
but it goes after a cold water dive
I did my first one slightly hungover 🤣 I was fine
*slosh slosh slosh*
While I agree with most of the 'you should never go diving when..' comments and I recognize that you may need to say certain things because of liability. I disagree with the never dive alone bit. We always dive alone, yes we are a safety for everyone around us (from random buddy to group in a class scenario to random non buddy that needs help), but we are first most a safety for ourselves and 'buddies' can actually inhibit that safety gradient at times, it can also inhibit divers from learning in environments that are completely safe with other controls in place. As a dive instructor, have you always had a 'buddy' that fit the requirements of a buddy? I know I wasn't during my open water cert and it was just the instructor and me on those dives... (random thoughts)
I always dove with a buddy..."same day-same ocean" kinda buddy.
never dive alone ? pretty much the only option when lobster diving on a boat full of hunters trying to cover a lot of ground....
Alain Dumesny your always on Alec pierce scuba, man you need to get a life.
I just got done watching a video of some dirt-bikers and the community difference is hilarious
When............... Your wife and Mr. Elijah stay up top on the boat.
If Jose Mourinho fine Mexican and all you can eat Sushi buffet has a 50% off and your dive buddy just had the special......
my pool sucks
Lol
Anyone recommend or know much about getting the d1 hydra drysuit ? I’m looking into purchasing one but it’s costly
Peter O’Brien get one with a bum valve.
1. You are not a scuba diver
2. You're already a mermaid or marine creature.
3. You are allergic to silicone
4. Salty liquids prompt you to swallow rather than spit.
5. You're fresh out of a prolonged tussle with an angry lynx which it kinda won, before stomping off into nearby pines.
6. You're a triffid (just google it, make an effort FFS).
7. Bullhead that you are, you just tore loose of a salt water drop down at the emergency room, to go diving anyway, with the tubes still dangling from the hollows of your elbow joints
8. There is a kind of pretzel quality to your skin.
9. You really should not have been eating all them habanero chilis yesterday and the pushback is juuust beginning to assert itself.
10. Wearing any kind of roller skates, boxing gloves or cement shoes.
... Just my 2 psi
Good list!
I am all about safety
We need more people like you
Stupid and boring list
When you have diarrhea hahaha.
Never had, but in my comercial curse every one joked about it
NO NOT FLAT EARTHER
Few things more boring than a wreck dive. "oh look, some barnacle encrusted rusted metal"
Do tell the place which insists divers use their regs.... I for one would want to put them on my blacklist of idiots never to dive with. Sure a centre my want to check my regs are in service, though no-one has ever asked, but who on earth would insist their rental regs are safer than my Apeks XTX50s:! Name them and shame them.
I’d give 0 credit to cocky people putting ego into overpriced gear vs. what my own professional shop maintains and oversees. Randos usually didn’t read the manual of their l33t gear either.
False solo divers go solo diving i sling a 40 and never go below 30ft so my whole dive is a no deco and I can surface anytime anywhere
Dive Alone....maybe your last...
Just about last night, again ! Into a bug dive (solo) at my usual spot 1/4 mile offshore in heavy shoaling & 0-2 ft viz conditions. So it happens I descend right on my lost gear !! I had to ditch 2 years ago while solo and stuck with a blown valve on my reg....(Told myself then never again alone)...Anyway, untangling and unwedging it then finally Just about get completely free to surface and swell throws me into it hard getting old octo hoses all tangled in my gear (knife bungee & octopus.) Try to reposition and my rubber mouth piece rips open, so I m sucking in 1/2 air and 1/2 H2O. I kid you not, I had to ditch gear again to avoid disaster and barely surfaced. Even though I know the reef and max depth is 40ft. This 2nd near death is my last wake up call. Most don't even get 1 let alone 2
@@davidbelinsky4825 The Sea is a Humbling place...
Please DON’T try to make it as funny as possible. That typically means lame. And I’ll move on.
Yup. Incredibly lame. Thumbs down and move on.
As far as sketchy dive centres are concerned, if I don't like the way they fill their tanks or how the installation looks, I take a pass.
As far as solodiving is concerned, I disagree.
Really?! Why, please?
@@kennethwilliams1301 Why what, the sketchy dive centres or the solodiving?
I'm guessing the solo part.
With the right education, equipment, mindset and experience I think it's perfectly OK to engage in solodiving.
I know it's a cause of concern and debate with a lot of organisations and individuals, but as far as I'm concerned it' s on a par with other "extreme" sports done solo.
And I've seen enough buddy's who were more of a liability then an asset, safety-wise.
Jason. Haaaaaaa