Worst Scuba Dive Fail made by my Scuba Diving Students
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Things you probably shouldn't do while diving... get ready it is Dive Instructor story time! This might be the silliest thing I did as a dive instructor (that caused my students to make a mistake that made me very worried) Watch to find out my biggest scuba diving fail! Hope you enjoy this dive story time from PADI instructor.
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It looks so easy admitting mistakes, literally towards the world, with a smile and a lot of positivity.
It isn't and I like that you do it regardless.
Thanks for your kind comment Thomas! It's important to reflect and hopefully others can learn from my experience
Thanks for sharing. This is a great example of how important clear communication is as divers, especially when using signals that have multiple meanings.
One of the silliest things ive seen is someone shoot an SMB (i told them to keep tension on it to keep it upright) and they kept enough tension on it that it hovered 2m above them still underwater. They somehow didn’t realise this for quite a while. Later we joked that it was an smb for submarines
Haha thats a lot of effort and tensions! I do like this one
Have a nice day everybody.
Love your stories Katt. Keep telling them!
Thank you for this kind comment!
Well the story of not making a plan when you lose track of one another usually leads to silly stuff. Hence why I insist upon it always.
My silly story: diving in Lanzarote we went out with a boat with a local centre. There's a heavy wind blowing that day.
Out at sea we count down and jump off the boat (group of 5-6), except for the guide & skipper. Then suddenly a rope apparently gets stuck in the propeller and the boat gets blown away by the wind quickly. I direct everyone to swim to a nearby buoy and hang on, I also inflate my SMB to signal where we are. We wait for a good 5-10 minutes for them to fix the propeller, but after the boat gets going again they just TAKE OFF and leave us at the buoy where we hang for another 10 minutes. After that a guy who had been there like a 100 times decides he'll lead compass to shore, I offer to keep a watch on everyone as the last man. We take off and actually see some damn nice deap sea fish we wouldn't have seen otherwise. Then suddenly out of nowhere the guide joins us (probably following our bubbles) all panicked. After the dive she's all hazy both blaming us and herself for getting seperated... So yeah, a plan for when you lose eachother: pretty important :)
Oh wow. What a mess. It's so vital to plan for that and good to have sage instances where these things happen to remind us!!
this is an excellent reason to use tec numbering (one-handed), there's no mistaking 70 with a 7 there.
I did the same thing as a student.
The buddy I was paired up with had the compass, I was doing the kickcycles, 10 in each direction. After 10 cycles I tapped his shoulder, he turned 90° right, and we ended up pretty close to the instructor.
Then we reversed roles. We went off, 10 cycles, no tap. 15 cycles, no tap. 20 cycles. no tap. 25 cylcles, no tap.
I was planning to turn around at 30 cycles, cuz my buddy war obviously not counting anything, and then I felt a tug on my fin. The instructor had come after us, wondering if we were planning to cross the entire Red Sea. He explained the rules again, and we did another try, and this time it went right.
Hi Kat, I'm quite envious of you, because the very thought of Scuba diving, is for me, completely and utterly terrifying.
How you, and other people aren't scared of what you do, defies all logic to me.
I just don't understand.
Could you please explain?
You mentioned you had a slate? Pointer stick is also a good tool to have to signal other divers as well
Yes. I usually just use my finger to point, but do love my slate to communicate more complex ideas.
The light is more useful a stick, and much more convenient to carry.
“Not good visibility” I had 1-1.5 meters on my first ocean dive in my course
Sounded like a good lesson for you... thanks for sharing.
Oh it definitely was!!
Oh I would've loved 3-5 meters of visibility when I did my open water certification dives two weeks ago. We were diving in a quarry and had about 2 meters of visibility. When swimming right behind the instructor you could see his fins, but visibility was bad enough you couldn't see his head.
That freaks me out a little bit.. even after all my dives
70 kick cycles, and 70 back is a lot! They wouldn't be back for a while. I've probably been on dives where I've kicked less the whole dive....
I'll add it to the reasons I prefer the tec signals for numbers, spelling out each digit of the number. Can't mistake a 7 for a 70.
I think I'd have taken the remaining group and followed them. Both so that I wouldn't lose direct supervision and so that they'd really have to use the compass to go back instead of homing in on me.
The line was an interesting idea, though I'm not sure they would have recognized its intention. Even if they've learned about lines for guidance, the line wasn't in place when they left, so they wouldn't associate it with your location. In bad viz, a bright torch is your best friend for broadcasting your location to other divers.
I should have definitely had a torch! I carry one now always.
I knew one of the students quite well so I hoped that finding a line they would stick to it..
Knowing that you are a Physics graduate makes me stan you even more! Girl! You rock!
Haha thanks!
During our A.I. open water test Rock ''the Rock machine'' was to exausted to follow me for the 30 kicks to come back and he was in charge of the count. So I kept going until I realised for sure that the count was off and he was 50 feets behind me. From my point of view if your shape is that bad you should reconsider your choice of being an instructor or take your bike three time per week to go to work.
They obviously didn’t listen during the dive briefing because you must have surely mentioned ‘7’ verbally in addition to the hand signal that they confused with 70. That’s one CrAzY story Katt TFS
Well in the briefing I said 10, and showed ten fingers... somehow that got lost when I changed it to seven. I was quite freaked out haha
Vegan Diver Katt - 8 fingers, 2 thumbs 🙃
It’s only ever multiples of ten when counting air so I can’t figure out how it happened but I bet every time you brief that skill since then you’ve reiterated the number of kicks or have perhaps wrote it on a slate to be certain 😆
Looking forward to the next story 👌
@@elmo319 I dont know myself...
Someone on a group went into deco, I thought that was quite silly. I was on a safety stop and low on air so was wanting to get to the surface while I waited for this guy below me, but staying at 5 metres had it's perks a school of mobula rays and a whale shark cruised past.
And maybe not silly but cruelly funny. Doing a dive, someone's weight belt came undone and he was quite...rotund and inept with actually getting his hands on the weight belt. So he would ascend cause no weight, swim down grab the other end of the weight bel, try to adjust his weight belt, and he would roll over and drop the weight belt and he just kept spinning and spinning and I wanted to help but I laughed so hard my regulator came out. I eventually pulled him down and got the weight belt on, but the image still makes me laugh.
Been there for both. Trust me. I know what you're describing!
🤣 I guess this is why you got some gray hairs, because of the schock you had, as I saw some strand of your hair are still schocked. 😁
But to be honest, you could be very proud of you, because this diver will never get lost, because if he found the way back in such a situstion, he will find back everywhere.
So you trained the skill perfectly.
👌
I hope you got more stories like this.
But when it comes to be silly, I lost my mask twice in one week, when I did a few boat diving. The first time when I was already in the water, I did a stupid move, one of the other diver followed the mask.
Secound time, I lost it when I jump from the boat, I get a new mask and my divemaster did a save & rescue at the end of the dive.
We had s lot of fun, because I told her, she pass the save & rescue of a mask.
I'm the only one who managed to lost the same mask twice.
I guess as long as nothing really dangerous happen we have a lot of fun, talking about those silly staff.
Love how your hair goes more and more crazy as the story progresses lol.
On another note, have you thought about using signals with just one hand? I know Padi teaches it using both, but using one hand frees up the other.
I tend to have both hands free when I am teaching as it ensures I can react quickly.
And yeah.. I have no control over my hair. Sorry haha
@@OceanPancake what I meant was always having a hand free if you only use one hand to signal. How many times have you not seen students hold their gauge, try to signal with both hands how much air they have, just to have them forget it, then grab the gauge, just to forget the number again. By using just one hand, they can actually hold the gauge, look at, and signal you at the same time :)
@@KaeN10 I use one-handed signals from beginning. It was not padi, but as I know, it's not a padi's thing, in depends on the instructor. Tech-inclined instructors tend to use one-handed signals for open water classes too.
If I had had to grab my gauge before signalling, it means I failed to check my pressure regularly though.
Always great to learn from experience. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to hearing your nitrogen narcosis story.
That one is fun indeed haha
@@OceanPancake That's good, I want to hear your narcosis stories too. Mine weren't fun.
@@bigdestroyer5895 mine have only been fun so far.. haha. I'm glad you're ok!
Morning Katt. Sounds like when I was in the Navy. We were doing a Marching Drill. Only supposed to do so many steps and turn at one point. We had people keep going. Not occurring to them that the person ahead turned.
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Thank you so much!
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I love your videos, and as someone with more pro experience than I have I appreciate your videos. This video brought back some fun memories for me, but I do have two comments for you. First, I work in Monterey Bay. To hear you say that 3-5m was bad visibility made me laugh out loud. In Monterey that's amazing visibility. I've worked with students in "Dive by Braille" conditions. LOL. The other comment I have is you mentioned the Leaf razor in not just this video but an earlier video and that's when I bought one. I've had it for a few months now and I absolutely love it. I also love the zero plastic packaging. Why can't everyone do that with everything?
If you ever make it to California I'd love to show you our beautiful kelp forests. Keep up the awesome videos and stay safe and healthy.
I would love to see kelp!! I've dived in braille visibility too.. let's be honest. It makes me quite freaked out and wonder why I do these things to myself. Haha
I'm glad you got yourself the leaf shave!! It truly changed my life and I'm glad to get to work with a company that is doing such good work
The best teacher in life is yourself. Gotta learn from mistakes, right? Greta video btw. New friend here 😊
-Daisy
One thing that's always predictable is that people are unpredictable :). Good on you for the self criticism and being able to learn from it.
Thank you! Always a journey..
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hi Katt! love your videos and thank you for the info! i am about to go to open sea water in October for my open water cert! wish me luck!
Haha, it was real navigation though. You are not going to use those skills in perfect visibility conditions.
My silliest mistake was a cold and wet mistake. After 15 minutes of discussing plans, extensive pre-dive procedures, checking gear I finally jumped in water with a not fully closed drysuit zipper. It was a training dive, my instructor had seen it, but he doesn't like to intervene until something silly like this happens.
Oh goodness. that would have taught you the lesson!!!
@@OceanPancake In fact, I have learned a good lesson. I got sidetracked several times during gearing up, and there are results.
@@bigdestroyer5895 Yup. Learn as we go :)
I dream about 3 to 5 meter vis!
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Hahahahaha excellent... Sort of. Like, losing your students is terrifying / awful, but you learned.
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So cute...
You should follow them while they are doing the kick cycle.
Yeah, at the time I didnt because I didnt want to leave all my 9ther students. You live and learn!
Lol. I enjoyed the story
I hope you learned something!! :)
My name was in the video *-* :D
I saw!
@@tomvanzanten479 nice 🙃
Yess! Thank you for all your support
Hi Kat. When do you recommend going for the advanced course after getting open water certification? Can I take it immediately or do more fun dives first?
Yes do the advanced one straight away :)
Rather chaotic video....
Was quite a chaotic day.. Sorry you feel that way!
Have you found SpongeBob yet
Next time!
Lmfao your not good visibility is our amazing visibility I teach in 5-10 ft visibility 🤦🏻♂️tbh I think my students are better for they ACTUALLY have to navigate if you don’t you will get lost 😂 never lost a single one gotta make sure they know how to use a compass before anything THEN we work on the rest
IMHO the title of this video is misleading. Actually, as a instructor that situation was Your fault. And what made it worse, You didn't have any emergency plan in play, which is clearly sign of incompetents
Omg! So i am donating to oceans pancake since years over my brothers paypal. It happened, that i just watched this video and at one glance i see the „picture“ of a familliar name. So i had to go back and stop it and was like: omg, why is my brothers name there? I did not know he knows you! Until i realized it is because of me, ssoooo funny!