Diving Disaster

1) regulator wheezing like a dog chew toy 2) BCD’s not inflated before exiting boat 3) OP doesn’t ever surface after entering water , just sees people near the dive line and swims over 4) When descending , someone literally inverts 180 and starts finning down 5) Descent far too fast with no buddy system cooperation or communication. Everyone doing their own thing. 6) Ruptures ear drum but carries on anyway instead of stopping and ascending when first feeling discomfort 7) OP has bad vertigo despite being able to see the bottom and the descent line, doesn’t end the dive 8) Everyone finning like madmen even using their hands to try and stay neutral - horribly overweighted and or zero bcd control 9) NOBODY checks their pressure gauges or dive computers 10) Waseem dragged out of water unconscious and left to die on the deck. Forget oxygen, nobody even bothers to get him into the recovery position. This is a good training resource - did I miss anything.

My folks always said if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. That looks like a nice boat.

if you’re ever losing control of what’s up or down on an open water dive, look at your bubbles and follow them. they always go up, unless you’re in a very strong current.

The amount of things wrong with this dive is astounding. Chimpdongs did a good summary of the issues. For me that reg screeching like a parrot being throttled was painful. That reg hadn't been serviced in years. Waseem is lucky to be alive. And the ignorance of the skipper and DM to just leave Waseem unattended on the deck without providing O2 and FA is unforgivable

"Nothing you can learn in a text book could prepare us...." Literally everything in the textbook would prepare you for that.

God forbid i ever hear "this is your divemaster, Waseem!" I'll be sitting that dive out

I've never been diving in my life but is it fair to assume that the constant wheezing isn't a good thing?

“Nothing in a textbook could have prepared us for this...” All of that could have been prevented by following the guidelines in the basic open water textbook. Dealing with panicked divers is well addressed in the rescue diver course textbooks.

As an instructor (Master SCUBA Diver Trainer), that dive was a total disaster. Everything that happened was preventable. These divers were not properly prepared for this deep dive, they did not observe proper buddy contact, they did not descend appropriately, they did not maintain contact with the descent line, they appeared to be grossly over weighted - even in full wet suits and sea water, and, personally, I would not have my students so dispersed and out of my view on a training dive. The response to the emergency on the video appeared inadequate. If I have a questionable diver, I have firm contact with that diver to ensure I can control the ascent. We frequently encourage new divers to continue with their Advanced course immediately after Open Water. There is a lot of emphasis on self-led training. Many people need help with the academic part of the training. The "books" identify the possible problems and corrective actions. Understanding these and adequate training can minimize the potential risks. The buddy rule, for example, would have minimized the effect of the burst ear drum. The buddy should have been with him. He should have aborted the dive with his buddy. With three divers, I would have assigned them as a team of three so they all stay together. They should all been aware of each other and prepared to help their team members if a problem occurs. This dive would have been over for everyone at that time. Proper descent and ear clearing would have prevented the ear problem. Head down descents make it harder to equalize. When wearing hoods, it is necessary to pull the hood away from the head to help equalize. The hood can seal around the outer ear creating another airspace. I don't know if they were properly trained on using a full wetsuit. I don't know if they did a weight check to verify the amount of weight they wearing was appropriate but it looked like they were too heavy. I did not see a check on this dive. Videos like these scare potential divers. It does NOT have to be this way.

"advanced training dive " ??? 1 Burst eardrum, 1 panicked diver, 1 guy knocks the reg out of another guys mouth....more like the three stooges try scuba

4:50 all of the viewers

The comments on this are great, considering I know nothing about diving, I'm going to take that the 10/10 people telling you guys that you made laughable rookie mistakes are right. Lmaooo

Looks like scuba certification from Dunkin Donuts 🤪

"nothing you learn in a textbook could prepare you for what happened that day"?!Everything you learn from your textbook's could prevent let alone prepare you for what happened that day :/

On my fourth ever OW dive I had a whole train wreck of a dive. I had a buddy with me that was really struggling with buoyancy control whilst we swam along a wall and had a 35+m hole beneath us. I needed to reseat my mask as it was constantly filling, I partially took it off and took a face full of sand as my buddy kicked off the wall. The sand got into my mask and at the same time my weight belt dropped to my knees. I was stuck, trying to sort my weight belt out with my eyes closed but I had also started to sink, I could only tell this because it was getting darker... over that 35m hole. My instructor attempted to push me into the wall so I would stop slipping but I felt it as her trying to remove my weight belt and it had gotten a lot darker (probably because I was up against the wall). I took this as time for a CESA (emergency ascent). I kicked for the surface, eyes closed, one hand on my weight belt at my knees and one on my LPI deflate button and then, I had a free flow (probably triggered by the heavy breathing from starting to panic) AND my left fin popped off. I'm now at 18m ish, freeflowing, blind, no spare hands and only one fin to kick with. Thankfully, 18m ish isn't too far but in 10C water (wetsuit + oversuit), no air and one fin, whilst screaming (for CESA, not from panicking, although I definitely was) it felt like forever to get up to the surface. I was absolutely freaked and needed to get on dry land. Thankfully my instructor was just amazing. He waited at distance to get me to calm, towed me back to land, allowed me to regain control and did the right thing, told me to get back in the water. If I didn't get back in, right there, I don't think I could have brought myself to carry on diving and I'm super glad he had the patience and absolute chill to get me back in and the decency/courtesy to allow me to finish the OW dive as a duo to be signed off on that section. I spent hours running through what happened and determined it was the best thing for me. It was one hell of learning experience and, before I'd get back in the water, things had to change. I researched and picked out better fins, I bought a backplate and wing BCD with integrated pockets to remove the need for a belt, I cancelled my plan to buy a set of regs and save a bit more for something beefier (MTX-Rs in the end) and less likely to free flow and, have run drills in my mind and in training pools to calm and drill reacting better to mishaps.

It looks like its all yalls first dive, this is pure madness!

Why did you continue your decent when you failed to equalize your ear pressure? Even after your ear drum burst you continued to descend.... why?? I'm baffled!

As someone in training. (Have only done 4 pool dives) I am amazed that they let these people out of the pool. My instructor would have aborted the dive if any of us even tried to go down headfirst or without a slow controlled decent and verifying every 3 feet that we were comfortable and hand signalling to us that we were using the Valsalva maneuver. Doesn't discourage me because I'm determined to make gradual and comfortable steps to become an experienced diver. I love learning to dive. I hope this doesn't discourage anyone.

I've been paired with other Divemasters and watched them panic. I've seen instructors break for the surface and end up in a chamber. Evidently, all the experience in the world can't predict one's behavior when panic takes over.

Panic attacks are no joke... glad everyone survived that trip