Discover Scuba Diving Disaster

Discover Scuba Diving in the Red Sea. Shot in november 2009. The Instructor is now suspended by PADI.

[madrx]

Practicing his "No mount" for his second introductory dive into a cave.

[xiayuer]

discovery diver with "side tank" skill huh?

[msdtimsoliman]

Teaching license should be revoked! He's a shame on the profession!

[neme]

ok guys.. everyone relax.. this is part of the IDC(Instructor Development Course) program, this is shown as an example of what not to do in the "prescriptive" part of the program. This is shot using dive profesionals in a controlled enviroment for teaching purposes only, as a dive professional i can appreciate everyone's concern over this video but this is a good example of incorrect information run rampant.

[WeBeYachting]

Enjoyed this video, thumbs up from us and cheers from sunny IGY Simpson Bay Marina, Sint Maarten in the Caribbean.

[souzajb]

It's a great "what not to do" scuba diving video!

[terencecallaghan]

What's going on ere?? Why is that blokes cylinder upside down?

[ntheho]

I wouldn't call the loose tank a disaster, but dragging divers across the bottom and kicking up that much sediment on the corals is!!!

[philip]

As a qualified Scuba Diver myself, both my buddy and myself have never have had a slipped cylinder but have seen plenty. The cylinder Cam Band should be checked in the initial BWRAF check under the Releases or the Air check. As this is a Discover Scuba lesson, I guess the Instructor could see that there was "No Disaster" and rather drag the whole class out the water, and correct the Cam Band, decided to carry on...

[CodyGraham]

6) the one that appears to be breathing off an octo may indeed be breathing off their primary, but its just yellow, which would mean they probably have an airsource/air2/octo inflator on their BCD... this would definitely not happen with rental gear, and I highly highly doubt a DSD has their own BCD/regulator...

[jasonrussellsmith]

@aqualandroy, a tank can slip out so wouldn't call that a disaster - maybe an oversight... disaster is having "6" students with "1" instructor which is above any standard and there also appears to be a child in the group...

[SuperTrooper]

I trained at this shcool, everything looks ok. Linked hands to make sure you don't loose each other and it's standard practice not to strap an "out of test" cylinder to your back in case it blows .

[grabby]

@Ogri750 from others and my experience, we concluded that many but NOT ALL dive centers do not teach enough about safety and conservation.

[sidharthafocus]

Can't see if it really broke, but if strap was broken wouldn't the whole tank float upwards. The only thing holding the tank say at 0:45 is the loose strap? Some tanks were attached too low, even the instructor has his tank so low that his tank could have slipped out also.

[subman]

I had to watch this a second time because I didn't laugh hard enough the first time! SO SAD!!! Glad the instructor is suspended now! He FAILED these people and the PADI community as a whole!

[CodyGraham]

4) there is at least one thing wrong with every one of them from their left to right, we have a) severely overweighted b) cummerbund loose / waist strap not tied c) tank loose d) not paying attention to instructor e) breathing off of octo f) left shoulder completely out of shoulder strap
5) the first person (A) sometimes forgets to bicycle kick and actually has good form (for being that overweighted), then goes back to bicycle kicking

[nadia]

i dont get it, what was the disaster??

[Danbo]

The so called "disaster" is the scuba tank being loose. I seriously doubt PADI suspended anyone over this. Seriously, give me a break, this happens more time than you can count. I've had it happen plenty with rental BC's and aluminum tanks with no covers.

For those that don't scuba. This happens because the straps should be wet first to allow them to stretch (tank strap). Newer BC's help this a lot as does tank sheaths.

[syedahmedrazaabidi]

Can you tell me how much do you earn per month? and which camera did you use for this video, the colors are amazing and water is so clear.

[SuperTrooper]

@mauscuba I'm not that old! Yeh, I was kinda joking, the main problem was the supply of 'o' rings from the local plumbing shop, they leaked and blew all the time as you can see on the students 1st stage on the right.