Crazy, Scary, Funny, or all of the above?

[MXGratefulDiver]

It's not a great advert for diving.

Let he/she who has not sinned cast the first stone.

I have done worse I'm sorry to admit.

I'd be casting stones at the instructor. Nobody worthy of that title should have considered taking students as unskilled as those on an "advanced deep dive". Then again, from what I saw of the instructor, he wasn't sufficiently skilled to be there either ... particularly not in anything resembling a leadership role.

This wasn't a mistake ... it was an appalling lack of common sense risk management. You can't blame the students for that ... dive instructors are supposed to know better.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[dbulmer]

I saw no instructor in the video.
I saw someone who might have been acting as one.

Bob,
I agree with you but thinking back to my own muppet moments I'm really glad someone did not film me - would have been a real video nasty.
"Dangerous Dave - Doom Doom Doom Doom Doomed- think of Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind music

 

[elmer fudd]

It's not a great advert for diving.

Let he/she who has not sinned cast the first stone.

I have done worse I'm sorry to admit.

I'll admit I've done a lot of dumb things underwater, but I don't think I've done worse.

 

[Mustard Dave]

It's not a great advert for diving.

Let he/she who has not sinned cast the first stone.

I have done worse I'm sorry to admit.

I have jumped in with my drysuit slightly open, I have stood on the end of a jetty, looked down and realised I'm not wearing my fins and I've attempted to stand up on a boat with a rope still tying the rail to my manifold. I may have once swam off a beach along a narrow wall of rocks, turned around to swim back and surfaced on the wrong side of the rocks with a 25 minute surface swim needed to get back.

I have never jumped off a RIB into deep water, with enough lead strapped to me to sink the Bismarck.

When I did my Open Water, the instructor weighted me up and we did a check in the water. After a few adjustments, I had it pretty much right. I recorded my weight in my log book so I knew what I needed next time. As this was an 'advanced' course, I assume they were qualified divers and therefore capable of doing a weight check.

If we give the students the benefit of the doubt (perhaps they had trained in a different exposure suit, or their OW instructor did not teach them to log their weight or do a weight check), the instructor should not have put them in the water with that much weight on them.

 

[highdesert]

Link to original video on YouTube ...

Diving Disaster - YouTube

 

[The Chairman]

I agree with you but thinking back to my own muppet moments I'm really glad someone did not film me - would have been a real video nasty.

I video all of my students now. However, I give them the video to do with as they please. Only one has posted it on Youtube.

 

[phoenix31tt]

I video all of my students now. However, I give them the video to do with as they please. Only one has posted it on Youtube.

i think that is an excellent tool for all instructors (the one's that take instruction seriously neways)...

i didn't see myself during OW, but i'm pretty sure i didn't look like that!!... and i hope i never look like that in my years of diving to come

 

[kelemvor]

I'm sure I looked like a total tool in OW as well. The thing is, these guys in the video were not in an OW class. It was an Advanced Open Water checkout dive. Maybe it's one of the schools that pushes AOW right after OW with no minimum dives requirement.

 

[NW Dive Dawg]

After some of the stuff I have seen lately, I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that some of the training that is going these days is WORSE than no training at all. Some lame ******* working out of some lame dive shop and teaching for some lame agency certified these folks and they probably thought that meant they could go diving. It's sad to the point of almost being criminal. This industry needs to take a hard look at what is happening and totally revamp their programs and bring back some "old school".


The best thing about this video was the boat.. Really nice boat.

 

[Frosty]

ignoreing the lack of anything resembling training -how much lead were they all wearing? -woof it looked like about 20kg to me