7 FATAL Scuba Diving Mistakes Most Beginners Don't Know They Are Making

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Dive into this video where I reveal 7 fatal beginner scuba diving mistakes that often lead to scuba diving accidents, and sometimes have deadly consequences. As an extreme sport, being prepared and educated is paramount. Equip yourself with scuba diving safety tips, learn how to tackle poor buoyancy control, and understand the importance of pre-dive checks. A must-watch for beginner divers eager to avoid these common and deadly mistakes new scuba divers make.

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00:00 Fatal Scuba Diving Mistakes
00:51 Mistake #1
03:27 Mistake #2
07:12 Mistake #3
12:00 Mistake #4
14:29 Mistake #5
17:08 Mistake #6
21:02 Mistake #7
22:15 How to Try Scuba Diving?

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[grene]

Excellent video! You mentioned your SPG going down with every breath, then coming back up. I had exactly that happen to me early in my diving. with rented gear. I recognized that I couldn't trust it, and decided to call the dive. I showed the dive leader and told him I was going to return to the boat. I did my safety stop, and ascended. Just as I broke the surface I inhaled and got nothing. After that, I bought all my own my gear.

[alisonanthony]

Even as more experienced divers, we sometimes forget to think about the basics so it's good to be reminded now and then. The number of divers I've seen jump in without doing buddy checks is insane. I have a regular buddy and I know her kit as well as I know my own but we still do a buddy check every time, even if it's just checking each other's air is on and that we haven't changed weights, etc. Great video and a timely reminder for us all

[ASMRShanny]

I’m new to diving and really appreciated this video!! It’s really well done thank you!!

[juliejules]

Great video. You talked about never keeping low air supply or ear problems to yourself, and that is correct. Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that some dive masters just don’t care. I just got PADI OWD certified in May and in July went to the Côte d‘Azur (France) over the weekend to get some training (2 dives). The divemaster was around 60-65 years old. I never had problems with equalising or my ears in general while diving before, but when we were down 15-20 meters, I had the feeling I had to equalise and when I did, one of my ears basically got stuck with the pressure and didn’t release. I suddenly had intense pain and couldn’t hear on that ear. After it didn’t resolve for like a minute I signaled the DM I had a problem with my ear. He just shrugged and moved on! Fortunately, it resolved after about two more minutes when we ascended a little bit. Also, the DM had overweighted me (he had me get back on the boat and gave me more weights because I didn’t sink fast enough - he stressed us so much before to get in the water that I still had a high pulse and probably too much air in my lungs and he just couldn’t wait half a minute and let me relax). Being overweighted, I struggled with my buoyancy and burned through my tank like crazy. I told him how much air I had left (50 bar) and that I needed to start ascending and instead, he had me take his octo because he didn’t want to end the dive. Then after the dive he shamed me about my high air consumption infront of everyone. Would not dive with that dive center again.
Edit: I wasn’t sick, I didn’t have a cold, my sinuses seemed clear. I don’t know where the problem with my ear suddenly came from. After surfacing, fortunately everything was ok.

[jenson]

I have just today, qualified in open water and I don't dive on a regular basis as I come from England and only enjoy this new world once a year in Cyprus. I am glad that I have subscribed to your channel so I can Keep up on all the safety procedures while I am on down time. I don't intend to ever go too deep but I have always wanted to dive the Zenobia and hope to dive there on my advanced next year. thank you for making these videos for people like me. a newbie.

[Enockdelanuit]

Merci pour ton vidéo, j’avais l’habitude de penser que la plongée était une chose très simple. Il y a beaucoup de choses à surveiller

[donlindell]

I saved this video because it’s so well done. Concise, clear, well articulated, and entertaining. The safety mindset comes with regular attention to detail regardless of the activity and your video really hits these details perfectly. Thank you. Off to watch more of them…

[HiTechDiver]

Very fluid and well narrated video; very impressed. I hope you don't mind if I expound on a few items you brought up: As a Navy Diver we held physical training every morning. There was a saying, If you're weak, you'll panic; if you panic, you're dead. That was a dramatic way to say, when you get tired you can easily lose your composure and revert to human instinct instead of your training, when things go south. The better shape you are in, the more likely you are to keep your composure, resort to your training and work through a situation instead of the alternative; so stay physically fit. On another note, as a retired Navy Saturation Diver qualified to 850', PADI and NAUI Advanced Open Water, with Nitrox (I say that not to brag, but for perspective), I would not even consider cave diving without that type of instruction from the very best, and neither should anyone...please. I live in FL, and we have had several cave diving fatalities; most of them are SCUBA (only) qualified and decide to go cave diving; too many do not return alive. I implore you, if you want to cave dive, get the instruction and proper gear. It is expensive, but you can't put a price on your life. There are so many things about cave diving you don't know that you don't know.

[PaulHarris-slct]

I got certified at the age of 13 in 1971. I have done too many dives to count. I have done salvage and recovery work and dive maintenance for private yachts. I still find it a little awkward to put my head under the water and inhale. It is just basically unnatural. On my open water certification dive I was underweighted. I found a rock to carry around and had to wedge my fin under a rock to do the test parameters that required my hands. I was under weight because I had dialed in in a freshwater pool and when I got into the ocean I was more buoyant

[oliverlucas]

Thank you for sharing this video please don't stop creating this type of video it's very helpful to us and I'm from the Philippines planning to be a diver thank you

[ahmedsamy]

That SPG thing occurred to me at 30 meters. Depth, with every breath the needle changes and rest at 150 Bar when I get the dive guide to notice the issue he ignored it and want me to stay with the group like nothing happened till I actually pushed him away and ascended by myself and reteurned alone to the boat when changed all the regulator set & tested the Selender with the new SPG I found I had only 30 Bar left 🥵

[felipesanchezcuriel]

When I saw the title I was afraid this was going to be sensationalist video, but this is great information, both for new and seasoned divers that often fall in complacency

[josephdracula]

👍😎🤿! Very well put together video 👍! I have to admit I have made some complacent mistakes but I shocked me enough to tell my self that I know better and after a while those mistakes are drilled in! As the more we dive the more second nature we become aware of the subjects you have covered! Well done!!!

[Zvona]

Good to refresh the basics from time to time.

[DiverNova]

Enjoy your videos. Very informative and relevant. Thank you.

[MatthewReiser]

Instructor here. Great reminders in this video. Good and clear style!

[eliz_scubavn]

The buoyancy thing is one I’ve worked on like crazy in my dives. I’m using a BPW, which isn’t particularly common in the area I’m diving in, so I didn’t get a lot of the proper advice or people didn’t know about BPWs. So my buoyancy was TERRIBLE.

I eventually got some good advice from a technical diver who was my diving instructor in Thailand. He recommended trim pockets and also for me to try a number of things to help me get my buoyancy in check. I took his advice and it turned my dives from being a fight with my BPW/harness/weighting into actually being properly pleasurable. I was also able to dump 2kg in lead almost straight away, my average dive time went from 40min to 50-55min and my buoyancy was far improved and I came out of the dive not looking like I’d been in a fight with scrapes and cuts.

[oliverlucas]

Thank you for making this video it was very helpful to me I am from the Philippines and already done my first diving but there's no orientation for me I just known all of this because of you thank you so much

[MysticalDragon]

thank you for the video. It was very helpful.

Im looking into getting into diving for work. We removed a piece of rebar from a water feature recently. The snorkel and mask didnt work too well as I needed more depth to be effective. Now we are looking at adding scuba certifications and gear.

[magcanabal]

Excellent, here in Galicia, I am ready to dive in these waters.
much success on the channel....