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Discover Oxygen Toxicity and Basics of Buoyancy Control courses combined with Advanced Hand Signals specialty?
 
This is 50 Shades of Wrong

Just wondering after hearing many stories from diveguides in Sharm / Dahab. What if someone pays you to guide him to 100m depth, pays upfront for all gasses and shows a full trimix card?
These days, anyone can easily print a card. PADI and SSI have an online verification of dive certification, how about other agencies?

This guy clearly printed his own card!
 
I have no experience with doubles, stages, long hose, trimix or any tech diving experience at all but I reckon that even with my measly sub 100 dive count could do better than that!

Buoyancy control - abysmal.
Awareness of surroundings - abysmal
Trim - abysmal
Finning - abysmal

The only things it looked like he did OK were to signal OK and perform a mask clear!
 
Come on guys, this was a PADI specialty dive....you know, the “OK Sign” specialty!
 
Even PADI would kick them out I guess :wink:, what a mess :no: Funny to watch though :rofl3:
 
AJ:
Even PADI would kick them out I guess :wink:, what a mess :no: Funny to watch though :rofl3:
or at least make them pay for a OW refresher course before going back water with them :popcorn:
 


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I watched the video again... is it normal to mount stage/deco tanks like that in some situations, the neck bolt snap attaching to the end of a long piece of webbing hanging around?
is it quicker to descend that way or something?
the other divers seem to use it as well. a bounce dive setup of a kind?
It looks like a bit uncomfortable to me o_O
 
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