8 Ways To Fail Your Open Water Test

8 Ways To Fail Your Open Water Test

So, rather than you guys and girls learning how to pass your open water test, you lot voted how to fail your open water course. So yeah, you guys voted for it so we’re gonna do it

Hi, I'm Mark from Simply Scuba and here are eight ways to fail your open water test… k

::Contributors::
- The 48% that voted
- Mark Newman
- Shaun Johnson

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[graeme.davidson]

This one group I dived with had 2 doctors on it. On a dive another diver got leg cramps and when both doctors swam up to help.
I couldn't help but laugh that 20m underwater in the middle of the ocean the guy got a second opinion. 😊

[hannahalice]

"don't turn up in your Grandads gear"

That hit me in the feels. Last year I had to clear my deceased uncle's house, and he was one of the very early divers and still had his neoprene suit he hand stitched himself. You can see him wearing it on one of the BBC documentaries on the amateur divers who worked on the Mary Rose. He last dove in the 90's and yet I found his old air tanks - still pressurised and had been stored under his bed ever since then. Oh and his old life vest because he distained the new-fangled BCD's as "unsafe 'cos you can't drop your tanks in an emergency". One of the old school divers

[chatterbox-lyoz]

5:02
Diver: What is the prize for winning first place to the surface?
Instructor: A trip to the hyperbaric chamber and a free mercedes bends 😂😂

[troylink]

I had some anxiety issues, 2 years before becoming a diver I worked on a tugboat for Norfolk Dredging Company. I was in a fatal shipwreck. The tugboat was ran over by a ship 2 of my ship mates drowned beside me in the water and 2 drowned in the bunk room. 5 of us lived. So yes I had some anxiety I had to sort out in my head while learning to dive. I have been diving since 2004, loving every minute of it.

[BenEichhorn]

I thought the only way to fail was to not come up the same number of times you went down.

[deerlakediver]

# 9... Panic.
# 10... Wander away underwater.
# 11...Play pranks on other students underwater.
# 12... Don't show up.

[joshuasmith]

Instead of failing the open water dive lesson, I asked questions about what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong and how to correct what I was doing wrong. Mr. Copeland is a very patient and wise instructor, considering he is now 80 years young and still dives and leads dive classes.

[Richy]

Medical conditions:
Allergic to water

[blendeheinz.]

I pulled up my instrcutor, while I went up in panic and he tried to keep me down.. well.. I won.. now I am Master Instructor for PADI and SSI since years.. and said instructor is my best dive buddy since then :)

[Ziwzif]

My class had someone that didn't pass. During the emergency ascent portion, we were 20 feet down, my partner was the one who had to simulate loss of air. She kept trying to go back to her own 2nd stage the entire ascent, and when on the surface, while trying to keep her buoyant so she could manually air up her vest, she kept flailing around keeping me from getting a good position to keep her afloat. After that portion, she was asked not to come back. It really sucked, but I still made it through just fine. She was always complaining about not being comfortable and didn't seem like she understood anything either the entire time with the pool dives and the first 2 open water dives we did. But that emergency ascent is what finally did her in. Instructor definitely did not feel comfortable having her there in case anything happened.

[jge]

Close someone’s tank as a prank 30 feet underwater, happened in my class.

[peaelle]

2:42 i love the way the dude is finning.

[whynottalklikeapirat]

You don't really fail your course, in terms of the content and the exercises. Everything is just re-done until you pass, although of course you have to pay something for the extra tuition. And of course signing off the individual exercises is at the instructors discretion, and of course an instructor can refuse to continue working with you for specific reasons, but generally the goal is to get you to pass and the system is set up so you eventually will, if you work at it. So it's not like some one-off exam at school. Still good points are raised here.

[paulwhite]

When simulating a lose tank adjustment on your instructor, turn off his/her gas when their back is towards you. That’s always good for a laugh or two. Hahahahaha

[alexwolford]

I poked a hole in my instructors dry suit. Open water corse in May.

[sirnacly]

I got certified at the age of 10 during a jellyfish invasion. I got certified with my best friend, and we were sticking by the instructor for the majority of the dive- until it was time to surface. The moment I looked up I saw a few thousand jellyfish near the surface, and decided I liked the bottom more than the surface. My instructor surfaced with my best friend, realized I hadn't ascended either and turned around to look at me from 40 feet up. The moment she turned her head back to look at the boat, she got a face full of jellyfish. Unfortunately, the snorkelers on the dive boat had used up all of the vinegar after exiting having spent only 2 minutes in the water, leaving none of the vinegar for the divers.





*I still passed*

[Pazsu]

I’m 15, and done my wreck course a couple of months ago, that was hard and freezing cold, England diving with non-suitable gloves and trying to use a reel whilest controlling bouyency is hard.. I remember my first open water dive, it was the best experience ever (also the coldest)

[divingadventures]

Soon as you get into the water, dive to 130ft.

[tekatarinator]

I love the way how you speak in English...
Slowly enough and properly as well.Just like non-natives like me, does love 🐟