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Inexperienced divers have fun and want to film and then lie down on the reef and hold on to corals. Was there no appropriate briefing? Why did no one have a drift hook with them to protect the reef?

Cameraman never dies! He did the right thing.

Hi. Instrong curents, no mater up or down and orizontal do not exceed 10 meters, no deco limit.

Hi. At these curents the 1000 percent of buoyancy or maybee 3000 percent more buoyancy an double thanks. An dinghy its 2000 dollars or so.Very parcimonial of you diving gear companies. And double or tripple tanks to fill them up. Diving compensators should be compact like an "astronaut chair" propulsion vehicle. My very best regards and respects!

Yikes!

I was once on a dive where the people were not so lucky. Some dude trying to impress a girl, diving way beyond his limit. Got too far from the group and the reef ledge, got caught in a very strong down-current and we could do nothing but watch him sink into the darkness.

You're lucky the sea floor wasn't that deep. We got sucked down in a bottomless sea with no one to help us

And carry a Surface Marker Buoy because had you been unable to hold onto the rocks you would have had to let go!! That current was way too fast for a safe dive - not funny. (BSAC Advanced Instructor)

Next time: Use your BCD instead of your camera

This was just a stupid reaction... still focus on the camera? nice.. go fishing!

Amazing material. Thank you for sharing.

"Doing my thing... LOL!" As she creates a dangerous situation for her entire class, and not paying attention to where she should be swimming. Wreckless!

Where is the downcurrent? I see the bubbles go up or horizontally-up direction… 🤔

Hi, what hotel did you stay at?

Magkano mo nabili ?😊

U guys dont have the current stream table before diving? Then good luck..

Quite a bit stormy there. Never go out without a SMB, might need it…

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I learned diving in environments that were often like this and I’ve had similar experiences in many places, including Sipadan, can’t remember the site but there was a sort of long channel where the sharks would sometimes hang out. But this is pretty decent current, no doubt. It’s times like this it’s good to have some local knowledge of the site. Looks to me like the divemaster missed slack high tide, and now the tide is coming down off the reef in all the channels and crevasses, even down the slope off the dropoff. Unless that was the idea. Just seems like an odd choice for a drift dive to me unless there was some special plan. Some of my own procedures for stuff like this include. - Don’t bring a camera on a drift dive, where the current is stronger than you. You want to be streamlined and to have your hands free and to not be distracted or tempted by ambition to achieve this or that against the best interests of you and the group. Most people I’ve seen struggle in adverse situations as a guide were carrying camera gear on a dive that was beyond or pushing their limits. Even experienced divers. - Add an extra 1/2 to 1 kg of weight. It takes a little longer for the current take hold of you when you change position or if you need to go heavier against the bottom. - Bring proper strong fins and have the muscle power to drive them efficiently. If your fins fold against the current - they’re too soft and you’ll have to work faster and harder per breath consequently pushing your pulse and breathing rate up burning air faster. Believe me. I recommend a classic Mares Avanti or similar. - Relax - worst case you can almost always make some kind of reasonably controlled ascent. YOu may drift, you may loose the group, but you can if you have to and you’ll be alive. - Control your finning don’t hammer away mindlessly, be efficient but don’t fight the sea with energy alone use your head and still try to achieve as much as possible with as little as possible. That’s how you … - COntrol your breathing rate. Keep focusing on a slow controlled uptake. Keep as calm of a breathing cadence possible, this is why you don’t want soft fins that wont allow you to recover and bring the pulse down a bit between strokes. - Swim as close the reef as you can - water running over a surface ALWAYS create some measue of backcurrent as much as 30-50 cm up. This makes a big difference to your work load. - Use the terrain to your advantage. Work from one sheltered position to the next. Plan your course one section at a time. Go behind structures as much as possible to recover and keep out of the main current. - Wear gloves so you can safely hang onto something if you have to. You may have to crawl out using your hands. - If youre moving along the side of the reef and you see a crevasse ahead, check for brown or yellow water and the direction of softcorals and how fish position themselves. That’s will show a local downcurrent. On a reef wall you can actually usually get around this simply by doing a halfcircle out in blue water. Ever so often the downcurrent is local and coming of the reef and does not reach out that far. YOu can usually simply swin around it. - By the same token stay clear of anything resembling a whirlpool - you can tell by looking to the surface if one seems to be forming and you can usually analyse the reef structure and direction of current to see if one would be likely in a given spot. - On more of a slope its more of a chance to take but sometimes the current mostly runs along the bottom and the water is calmer higher in the column. Watch your bubbles and how they move to read whats going on in the different layers. In some locations you may have multiple directions happening at different depths. DOn’t go for this unless you’re prepared to completely do a free ascent if you have to. - Worst case, hug the reef and climb out. If you are on level bottom or on a slope and certainly if you are in a channel or hollow - it is worth angling gradually sideways to see if it will take you out of the main current. Look for clearer water ahead and check the soft corals and fish to get an idea of what is going on. - Carefully approach any corner, bend or crack in the reef, things may be very different just a few metres ahead. - Keep an eye out for temperature changes. Warmer water often means surface water coming off the reef. Cold clear water may indicate an upwelling or deep current coming up. - If you’re caught in a downcurrent its almost always better to swim sideways out of it than try to swim dead against it. - Stay close as a group, its easier for the guide to manage. - Don’t do drift diving without local knowledge in the group. Arguably don’t do drift diving with inexperienced divers or people you’re not too sure about unless the setup is right for it. They get in trouble, someone else likely will too. Likely they’ll occupy the guide, in which case you need to know how to somewhat fend for yourself at least for a while. - Make sure that the guys topside on the boat understands what youre doing and how far the current may take you and in which direction and that they won’t be taking a nap while you’re at it. Bring a surface buoy and a whistle or similar signaling device so they can spot you even at a distance or if the waves pick up. - Make sure the dive plan takes the tide or ocean currents or inland rainfall causing rivers to swell into consideration and remember the tide does not stay the same throughout the lunar circle and the ocean currents do necessarily stay the same throughout the year. Knowing the tide for your dive time slot will allow you to make better calls or predictions once you’re down there. Is it going up or down? When? What does that mean in practice? - As always - as long as you control your buoyancy and has ample air and bottom time buffer for the ascent and exit - you’re good for the moment. You deal with current deliberately and one piece at a time.

Went from scuba to rock climbing, what a weekend warrior!

it seemed you were starting to get out of control there for a bit....not sure why you didnt grab onto the reef to stop your down current status....? if it wasnt for the dm you would of just floated down and down but you could have stopped yourself. why?

If you are checking your camera you were defiantly not in trouble. Just one of the typical diving clips feeling important! :)))

Why did one of you have free diving fins on?

YEP...been there scuba diving!! I watched the seaweed go from standing straight up to lying flat on the ocean floor with the ends flickering like a flag on a windy day. Never thought I'd get out and panic started to settle in. I was out of air and about a second from saying f@ck it, I'm ready to suck in the water and drown! At that moment I caught a reef, sharp as all heck and was able to get my head above the surface. I don't dive anymore!! My body looked like I went through a meat grinder!!

gorgeous coral

Diving in a strong current at reef slope will likely meet a down current along the way. So make sure you know how to deal with it before joining a drift dive

You can tell they had to work hard on that one. Drift diving is the best but you have to keep your wits about you

so dangerous!

Hi. Ask ko lang po kung may house reef sila for shore dives po. Thank you po :)

Strong current, get close to reef or structure (wreck), use two fingers on rock or wreck to hold on if no reef hook. Don't swim into it, your best bet is to keep low and swim at 90 degrees to current and you'll find a way out. Watch the particulate in water and fish, particulate will go direction of current, fish will point in to it. Copy fish direction. Worst case abort dive and surface is safe to do so, always swim away from reef if boat diving. Swells are a bit more tricky, go with the flow, always breathe, as you can raise and lower 2 to 3m each time. If in any doubt don't dive or abort the dive and forget the camera!

Been diving a few years. Lots of live aboard in red sea and places.. in a current like that abort dive while have plenty of air and your not exhausted.. start to accend go with current.. not down!!!! Lol Get SMB ready and while fingers safety stop your boat will come..... no point hanging on getting tired and using all ya air Don't fight currents Or any other dried fruit

That is not the best moment for recording. Is time for your security and the your mates.

Oh my goodness this would scare the living crap out of me, I think I will stay up top with some floaties lol Happy everyone made it through that okay.

That would have been really scary. Upwelling can be just as bad because of surfacing too quickly, but truly the thought of getting dragged down into waters way below your depth is very terrifying! Fascinating to read about, but scary . . .

Crazy scary

Newly certified diver here, I saw the title and thought Damn! Glad your safe!

Ru stupid or what??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣well deserved

MOVE ON MOVE ON - just a bunch of bad divers here!

가고싶다 수빅....

i just got DCS..2 chamber sessions

Other divers have called me a wuss but this is why I prefer reef diving over finger coral in calm seas at a max depth at around 40 feet. Love those sunny days with flat conditions where visibility is AMAZING. Strong currents can still happen in those areas but they're not as common due to the shallower depth. On one dive off of Key Largo a storm came up which produced a really bad current I had to swim against to get back to the boat. Ohhhhhhhh did I regret those cheap fins. It was MISERABLE. That swim wore me the heck out - I was practically hyperventalating. I went out the next day and bought a better pair of fins.

how much po yung Sunrise Suite at TMH?

did the management allow you to bring in food in the room.

love the window nostalgic!

Wow what a video

best thing to do in this case is to use ur compass to see what direction you are going, and get INTO the reef so you dont get blown off the site. Most important stay calm, and if you REALLY start getting washed away send up your DSMB. Safe diving friends!

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You can compensate for downcurrent by inflating the BCD, just be ready to purge air from the BCD if you start to shoot up quickly. You might end up pushed away from the reef however. The other solution is to hang on to the reef, either by hand, or if you have one, by reef hook.

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Thank you for sharing. That's one strong current!