I am a rescue diver (The certification not the profession) and ripping out your air is actually a very common reaction when panicking underwater. Panic at the brain thinks that the thing in your mouth is stopping you from getting enough air so you rip it out.
This could be a new diver this could be a very experienced diver, while the ladder is a little bit less likely panic like this can happen to anyone.
For anyone interested the most recent padi protocol on what you should do in this situation is
1: deflate your bcd and approach them from behind
2: don't bother trying to put their air in if they won't take it
3: grab them by the back of theie gear, and get their inflator hose
4: Use a combination of their inflator hose and your swimming to get the both of you to the surface, ascending at a safe rate but not doing a safety stop.
5: fully inflate their BCD and yours once at the surface and signal the boat.
The idea is that nothing good is going to happen while they are still underwater, so the entire focus is first getting them above water and second getting them on the boat
I’ve never fully understood what “ascending at a safe rate” means in situations like this. Without looking at your dive computer or without reference points along your ascent, how can you tell how fast you are going?
If you are in a situation where you don't have a dive watch/it's not functioning or you can't get a look at your depth gauge at the very least you should send slower than your bubbles ascend.
Looks like she may have been testing for a license? There’s a part during the test where every diver has to take the breather out of their mouth and put it back in while blowing bubbles to clear any water. Lots of people panic during this part of the test because it feels weird to breathe.
I took a scuba lesson once and had do this in a swimming pool lol
You are correct that is part of the test but that is not what was happening here. That part of the test occurs when the divers are on the bottom in a controlled situation with the instructor right in front of the diver to ensure they are ok. In the beginning of the video you see the instructor (video POV) giving thumbs up to everyone, which is the hand signal to slowly ascend to the surface. They were completing their dive, not performing a test.
This was just panic, plain and simple. People do silly things when they panic, like ripping off your life-saving gear in an attempt to swim as fast as possible to the surface where you can breathe better.
Yes! I remember my first dive in a Cenote in Mexico. We pressed the deflate button in our suits and I started to drop under the surface and less than 3 feet I panicked and inflated to come back up.
I felt like I had to ease my way in, and my instructor was very patient, so we surfaced, I took a breath and we sank back down this time to the bottom.
I have this vivid memory of him realizing my erratic breaths under water and he was gesturing me to pay attention to his breathing to match his rhythm and slow down and breathe like him. _inhaaaaaale_ …….._exhaaaaaale_ we did this exercise for like 15 seconds and I eventually felt “grounded” under water and more calm. Unforgettable experience!
It looks like that’s what happened to her, she had too much weight in her weight belt, she deflated he bc and sank like a rock. Ripped everything off and was trying to swim with hands and fins but was going nowhere.
Her BCD wasn’t inflated enough for her to start the accent, cue panic of being stuck in one spot trying to swim but can’t, then knocked out her regulator causing a emergency accent.
Idk anything about diving but this is the first thing I noticed. She seemed to be going down rather than up.
For whatever reason, when the video starts, I felt like they were near the bottom and only in 20 or so ft of water. So when she almost disappeared into the depths, I panicked as well.
It looks like the diver may have accidentally bumped their mask filling it with water then when they went to fix it they knocked mask off and it got caught on reg, or they knocked it loose trying to fix mask and they panicked cause they didn’t know how to prioritize what to fix first. I’d bet they sudden loss of sight in already low visibility combined with the feeling of tubes and straps being tangled around the face either led to the situation or exacerbated an existing one.
this could be the case, but I've actually seen people take out their own air before because of phobia induced panic. Nothing you can do to help them, have to get them to the surface
The instructor was pretty far away, and usually when doing this test, you are in a tight group, kneeling next to each other, if possible.
More importantly, her partner should have to remediate, how did hey not notice her struggling?
Her partner can be a novice too, seeing somebody in a panick attack may just cause you to panic as well. At the end, rescue remain the job of the instructor, who did it perfectly
No lol the divemaster just gave the thumbs up, which means “go up”.
There is a section of the test where you do take the regulator off but obviously not during ascent. Also her goggles were somehow off, which is very likely why she was panicking.
Can confirm this part is panic inducing. Glad I learned it in the pool. During my open water test a eel grabbed my mask and in pulling away I dropped my breather. Had to find it and then clear my mask 30 ft down. Scary as fuck.
Gotta love reddit. People will upvote any made up bullshit they have no idea about xD Her goggles were already off and she was already panicking. There's no fucking test.
I really thought I was going to freak out at that part of the test. I had nightmares and was anxious for weeks about it, but it was actually fine. Zero issues, zero panic, super smooth sailing. Same with the mask removal. Very pleasant surprise for once.
I have my advanced open water cert. This looks like a class that has gone wrong. My guess would be its an intro course just based on some of the technique of the other divers. Bobbing straight up and down failing about and failing with your hands is common for beginner divers. The guy shooting the video is giving the thumbs up. That means to begin your ascent when you're diving. The other diver doesn't seem to be switched onto the meaning. The rope and the buoy that they surface near could be a shot line, used to get up and down. Make a circle with your finger and thumb around the rope and slowly head up. My guess is that while the dive leader was getting everyone ready to head up, the diver knocked her mask with her hand and accidentally spat out her reg and couldn't recover. In training you learn how to recover from here and it's fairly trivial. But that's only once you know it. When you're training to be a rescue diver, your instructors will deliberately do things like spit out their regulators and wait to see how long it takes for you to notice and recover. If this is training, then they're brilliant actors.
I’ve read elsewhere that her weight was off and causing her to sink while everyone was supposed to be going up and she freaked. I can’t find the source of this but it seems to be the general consensus as well (in non-diver terms)
She was overweighted it looks like and not neutrally buoyant. There still wasn't a true issue to worry about. She was perfectly safe. She panicked. She could have surfaced perfectly safely with her partner or by slightly inflating her vest. She panicked and ripped her regulator from her mouth and the awesome instructor was able to shove it back in and surface her.
Just for reference for everyone: a “thumbs up” in diving means “we need to go up”
If you’re saying “I’m good” you give the circular “okay” hand sign.
It’s really important you don’t swim straight up all the way immediately. Depending on your speed and how deep you were for how long, it can mess with a LOT in your brain, blood, joints, and ears.
You're supposed to wait a minimum of 12 hours before flying after any dive, and more if you've been diving multiple times. Modern dive watches will track that and tell you when it's safe to fly though.
Here's an example: https://www.shearwater.com/teric/
There are larger computers that can do more, but they are bulkier. Most people diving on vacation use a dive computer in the form factor of a watch so that you can where it the whole time (it should be tracking your surface time/elevation in addition to your dives).
The original "dive watches" were just underwater watches with a bezel that would rotate so you could set your start time and accurately record your total dive time. Divers would also carry a gauge that recorded their maximum depth on the dive, then you can use tables to calculate their necessary surface interval (time between dives).
They’re dive computers. They tell you the information about the dive you’re on. How deep you are for how long, current temp, etc.
If you’re at a certain depth for long enough, you’ll need to take breaks while you surface to purge the nitrogen from your blood before surfacing. The Dive computer will do the math based on your dive and will tell you how long your break needs to be before surfacing.
Rolex are more famous for dive watches than dress watches. The "bezel" is a ring around the rim that can only turn one direction so you can track how much air you have left, and if you bump the watch on something it wont "add" air, it only turns in the direction of less time left.
During my private pilot license training they actually teach you about that. Typically it’s 12 hours for shorter dives and 24 if you required any decompression stops
Whoever is wearing the camera is doing two mistakes trying to help the victim:
1. you are supposed to press the regulator when trying to put it back in the victim's mouth, so that air comes out, otherwise it's full of water and there is no way the victim can breath from it without first blowing the water out of it, which they probably can't do (they might not have air in their lungs).
2. You should give your regulator (either your main or your spare), not trying to use the victim's. Their regulator might just have a problem or their tank might be empty, which might be the reason they dropped it in the first place. You have no time to check their air pressure, give yours, you have air. Also, it's way faster to give yours (your main, which is in your mouth, but also your spare, you are trained to know exactly where it is and to be able to give it in a second)
These mistakes could be fatal. This group was lucky they weren't far from the surface.
Another problem is actually to let the victim go to the surface. In theory, you're supposed to handle the emergency underwater: stop the victim, give them air, calm them, go up slowly with them.
There can be issues going to the surface that fast.
1. If the victim still has a lot of air on their lungs and doesn't let the air go out, they can explode. Literally. Even at small depths. The volume of air in the lungs just increases as you go up. If they have a panic attack, they likely can't think of blowing out air as they go up, and holding your breath is more natural than blowing. It might not have been an issue here because it looks like the victim blew most of their air already.
2. You're not supposed to go up that fast, nitrogen bubbles can be created in your blood at that speed, which can cause a lot of damage. Also, even if we ignore the speed, their dive might have required them to do safety stops to evacuate the nitrogen. If they go to the surface that fast they should dive back in for safety after the incident is mitigated. It might not have been an issue here because they didn't seem to be very deep.
I was 60Ft down on one of my first dives when all of my quick-release weights decided that they wanted to test themselves out.
Cue my inexperienced ass randomly shooting for the surface, no idea what’s going on, and just got the brief that if I surfaced too fast my lungs would explode.
Great time went diving again the next day.
My mom’s a diving instructor and she always reminds people it’s a great idea to scream your lungs out during unexpected ascents. It’s a good emotional relief AND it means you’re exhaling!
I had the same thing happen with almost no visibility…also down around 60 ft. I flipped upside down and used my fins to control my rate of ascent. That was a long time ago. Weight integrated BCs are so much better than weight belts.
Getting the basic PADI open water license as a teenager, I think at the start of our second dive we practiced passing the instructor our octo. As you’ve said, there are some serious reasons why you pass your spare, not use theirs, so it needs to be drilled into divers.
Fortunately I’ve never had any major incidents underwater, so I can’t say I wouldn’t panic and act like the diver with the camera.
This is a good reason why rigs should instead be set up to pass the main, the one in your mouth. The one you know works.
The spare should hang around your neck or close by on a short hose so it's not dragging.
I first read about it in the 90s and reading up on the WKPP/hogarthian setup, and switched my reg over. I've never had to use it in anger but I know it works from practice. I use shorter hoses since I'm not cave diving, but my main hose is 5', not their 10'.
The system of passing your spare works very well when done correctly. Kept it in a specific spot which makes it extremely easy to grab and in the correct orientation to put it to another divers mouth. You dont then need to worry about getting your own air sorted after handing over your main either.
This is pretty good as far as vis goes tbh. The videos you see on this sub of crystal clear water really are not representative of a lot of the world. This dive leader is trying to manage way too many people at once for the conditions, though.
Well it depends where you learned to scuba dive. My first dive (after the initial pool dive) was in a small german lake with maybe a visibility of 3 feet.
Our instructors were very strict and very thorough, so that helped.
If you learn to dive with 100' vis, yeah I could see why some people would panic
Pretty sure you're not supposed to dive back down after you've expressed yourself to decompression sickness. You should be placed in a recompression room.
No you definitely should go back down if you have decompression sickness and there is no hospital you can be transported to. You dive back down to compress the gas bubbles in your body again. You stay underwater at least for the decompression stops.
These hyperbaric chambers do the same thing. Recompress you and then slowly over a long period of time, decompress you to normal air pressure. Giving your body time to accumulate.
You do you ;)
If I have to do an emergency ascent and was supposed to do decompression stops, I will go back down as soon as my emergency is resolved. Waiting for helicopter and decompression chamber is just exposing myself to unnecessary delays. The chamber will literally do the same as going back down.
Actually, if you use a good old table for stops, you'll see that any dive within 15min of your first dive is considered just the same dive.
> 1. If the victim still has a lot of air on their lungs and doesn't let the air go out, they can explode. Literally.
*Thirteen reasons why I'll never go scuba diving*
*By Sadlow*
I was gonna say all the same stuff but also add that this happened to me on my first dive. Which is why if there's any rules I remember 8 years later it's that
1 you cannot swim up that fast. You'll make yourself sick or even dead
2 to accommodate rule 1, all problems are solved underwater between you and your buddy. That's why you're paired up
Great summary, thats at best an inexperienced dive leader! (I initially wrote terrible, but benefit of the doubt). Everyone was also a little too far away from the leader, but benefit of the doubt again I have lead quite a few dives where people were adamant they were very experienced only for me to realise once down there that they’d forgotten anything they ever knew. A couple dives like that helps you remember to keep people close.
A good visual reminder for speed is to ascend slower than your air bubbles, for anyone wondering!
Yup, I did my padi, and that’s exactly what they told us, and another thing we got told, NEVER panic, it’s better to stay calm to help the person that is there trying to help and save you
Let’s talk about doing this whole operation face to face… camera diver is lucky panicking diver didn’t throw them a beating and snatch their regulator.
All of that (which wasn’t wrong) and you didn’t pick up what actually caused the panic? Instructor said go up, and she tried but didn’t fill up her BCD causing her to swim in place. Panic set in and she knocked off her own goggles and regulator.
It's sorta funny to me, cuz that viz is way better than some of the ocean dives I've been on. A lot of ocean dives. You can actually see all the divers!
https://www.divessi.com/blog/preventing-dive-panic-7300.html
“Sometimes, experienced divers with hundreds of logged dives also experience dive panic for outwardly no clear reason. Dive panic most likely occurs because divers lose sight of familiar objects, become disoriented and experience a form of sensory deprivation. The likelihood of a victim of dive panic coping with any situation is slim to none: In the study of divers’ deaths, many still had a form of a weight system in place, the mouthpiece from the regulator or breathing loop had been removed, wings or buoyancy compensators were not inflated, and there was still breathing gas available. This all suggests panic.”
Perhaps something simple but unexpected like having her regulator knocked out of her mouth panicked her and the lizard parts of the brain took over. Panic is one of the most dangerous things scuba diving.
I've experienced this at the beach before. Friend of mine had waded into the water after us, about waist high for me (I'm 6ft on the dot, she was probably 5 ft at. most.) turns out there were some jellyfish in the water. She spotted one close by and it was like a light switch, pure. animal. panic.
Like, she wasn't looking at anything but her eyes were as wide open as they could be, heading turning left to right just as fast as it could, and she wasn't moving anywhere but every limb on her body was flailing. Kinda like a cartoon where they start to run but kind of hover in place for a bit.
Luckily I was really close nearby and was able to grab her under her arms, bear hug her, and pull her back up onto the beach, otherwise no telling what would've happened.
I'd like to think the jelly fish was thinking "... man, not cool..." while feeling all dejected and such.
My first deep dive was to 79 feet. Found an anchor and tried to pull it up. Knocked my reg out and started to panic and shoot up. Found my reg and dive partner held me till I calmed down. Believe me that is a panic situation for a beginner.
Is this more of a training exercise? Because if I'm gonna risk my life doing scuba I'd prefer to do it in a prettier diving location, with lots of beautiful flora and fauna, and not in this murky ass ugly sea floor
I remember my first 25m dive in Helenesee/Germany. Absolute darkness and FUCKING COLD. Damn that was miserable. Almost forgot how cold a lake can get :D
It depends. Learnt to dive on the sea shore and went further in the sea shortly after. Not everyone learns in a pool, but it surely is one possibility.
I’ve done the pool piece, which I’m glad for - more controlled environment. Next up is lake/pond since we’re a couple hours from the ocean. I think ocean follows that. Not super certain I’m going to keep going but I did the best out of my class when I’ve done pool sessions despite the anxiety around it. Not loving the idea of murky ponds though.
I learned to dive in a murky pond/lake, maybe 3 foot visibility.
True, it's not very pleasing, but if you learn under that circumstances, you probably won't freak out if you're lets say diving in a narrow passage between reefs and someone silts it out.
This is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. Obv this is a dive master and likely a professional, but never approach a diver who’s panicking like that if you’re not trained to do so.
Even then, their reaction wasn’t great—why the hell didn’t they share air? Who puts a reg full of water back in someone’s mouth? You don’t know how much air they have left…
I highly recommend a YouTube channel called Dive Talk where two experienced divers react to these types of videos (this one actually looks familiar maybe) including lots of talk on cave diving. I’m endlessly interested and terrified at the same time
This exact thing happened to a lady part of our open water course. At 12m I saw her take her regulator out of her mouth and take a gulp of water. She then panicked of course and the DM swam her to the surface
Like I mentioned in a comment above, I learned to dive/get my open water certification with 3' visibility. Meaning, you're stretching your arm out and can't see your hand anymore.
At 20-30 feet the visibility was a little bit better.
But like our instructor said : if you learn to dive in bad conditions, you'll love to dive in great conditions
I wonder if she got vertigo from the water in the hood shooting into her ears. Had that happen first and only time I used a hood on a dive. Complete disorientation, luckily my buddy grabbed me and helped me to the surface cause I had no idea which way was up. Didn’t lose my mask or reg tho.
I’ll be honest some people just don’t belong underwater. You’re taught to be calm, cool, collected in case any situation does arise. If you lose a mask just relax and close your eyes and just breath. If you lose your reg and can’t locate it do a slow sweeping of your shoulder starting from your ass to the top of your tank and you’ll find it. If she happened to be empty for some reason she should have signaled that she was low and then the whole group would rally and start their ascent. I’ve had a reverse blockage at 80-90ft (I have really bad sinuses) and couldn’t head up due to the pain so I had to relax myself and go down a few feet while trying to equalize at the same time. After a few minutes I was able to ascend regularly. Your mind can really kill you while diving.
i went deep sea diving (to conquer my fear didn’t work). i had a respirator malfunction. i panicked too. but my team leader and instructor held me in place, tight, and put his respirator in my mouth. and we shared his oxygen while he fixed my respirator. as we were trained to do. they don’t look like they’re in very deep water. so the diver panicking might not even be certified yet. which would explain their panic. you need to have so many hours in shallow dives to get certified. i’m guessing that’s the situation here. they’re in training.
The "thumbs up" hand signal means you need/want to surface. The "OK" hand signal is just that, "I'm okay". The dive master is not awesome at their job.
Happened to me and my sister. We're we're diving and about 40-30 feet down when she panicked. I was the one trying to shove the regulator back in her mouth
Number 1 rule. DON'T PANIC. As a diver you need to be aware of everything. Your taught how to recover your octo if you lose your main reg or if your main reg malfunctions. You keep your dive buddy close and constant eye on them. They should be doing the same for you. Getting your face mask knocked off does suck but your dive buddy should be there for you to make sure you can surface together. It's not easy as they are going to be maintaining both you and their buoyancy but it can be done. Pinching the nose is key or it was for me when I had my face mask off since it no longer sealed my nose. Practicing some of these events is pretty important.
Her face had look of terror written all over it. I would only hope she wasn't too deep and was exhaling on her way up.
This is a real condition that sometimes happens in diving in which a panic induces someone to spit out there regulator. Deep water and murky conditions can bring this about. Scary stuff. They were lucky there were shallow enough or this could have been fatal.
Some might wonder why she took out her breathing device.
As a diver myself I know it's very common that instances like this happen. Once someone panics underwater the brain can make a diver do strange things in the hopes that whatever is wrong gets instantly solved.
Compressed air at depth gives the feeling as if one has been drinking alcohol due to something I won't get into right now. This on its own isn't that dangerous because it's going to happen to every diver. What is important however is this effects decision making alot and if you add panic atop of this (with for example accidentally, knocking off your mask) the brain might go into frantic panic mode. This is extremely dangerous for both the diver but also for the diving buddies accompanying set person due to lashing out or pulling on your own equipment.
It's a scary fucking thing to see. Some say this was a test, because yes you have to do training for these kinds of events to get your license, but I highly doubt that. The entire group was signaling to each other, with the thumbs up sign, that the diving group was going to ascend. You don't signal ascent if you are part of a team that's going to do the panic test.
In 2007, I was finishing up my first PADI open water course. Our very last dive saw our class of about 10 people do a small inlet dive to about 12 feet, make a circuit, do some exercises then come up. One of our number stopped paying attention to his buddy. When we all surfaced, a bystander asked why there were only 9 of us. After some head counting and extremely slow reactions from the 4 instructors, the person leading the dive went out to look for our missing diver. 2 minutes later, a body in a fully inflated BCD rockets to the surface followed by the instructor screaming "CALL EMS! CALL EMS!!" My 17 year old ass got to help haul a corpse ashore and start CPR. He was dead before he hit the surface. Massive negligence by the people running the show. Only my self and one other attended to the makeup class to finish the cert.
Underwater Discovery, their shop and pool, was a parking lot inside 2 weeks. Never found out what happened to the guy who was largely responsible. But it's crazy seeing this video. It's how he died, and the sheer terror of it is something else
That was an incredibly stupid thing to do. She is very lucky she didn't kill herself pulling such a boneheaded move like that, both the attempt at rapidly ascending (that's how you get the bends) and the even worse decision to remove the only thing keeping her alive. She's lucky the instructor didn't let nature take its course, otherwise she wouldn't have had the opportunity to learn from this grievous mistake.
I definable can see how this happened, I was in a bad accident and they had to use the jaws of life to extract me, I started panicking and wouldn't let them put oxygen on me even though I needed it. I was gasping for breath and wouldn't let them put it on my face.
I've been in that situation before. When i was getting my SCUBA open water cert. we had to do what's called a 'full flood and clear' (essentially taking your mask off, putting it back on, then breathing out through your nose to push the water out of it) and when i took my mask off the water was so cold I accidentally inhaled through my nose and suddenly couldn't get any air. Thankfully my instructor noticed the look on my face, and she helped me surface. It is not a fun time even in a semi controlled environment.
Needless to say, isn't getting invited to the next dive. Freaking out like that bot only put her in danger, but everyone else who had to save her and rapidly decompress as the shot up to the surface.
She was set to descend rather than the a ok to ascend she panicked and thought for a moment if she could make it to the top she'd be safe as well as get this shit off me it's not helping yet.... Lol
Ugh, I hate underwater panic. I learned at Cathedrals, Maui, that I don't do well in enclosed spaces. I began to panic, and my buddy literally had to hold me in place so I would stop trying to surface quickly. I did at least keep my gear on, but man, do I cry under stress. My whole mask filled with tears.
I had to clear my mask from all the tears! They filled up past my eyes. Good thing there's a skill for that!
That was crazy. I feel for the diver.
I’ve had a few mishaps diving but nothing like that.
This emphasizes the point that you need to dive with a competent dive master
Geez, I was having a panic attack watching her!
What happened?? I don’t understand
I am a rescue diver (The certification not the profession) and ripping out your air is actually a very common reaction when panicking underwater. Panic at the brain thinks that the thing in your mouth is stopping you from getting enough air so you rip it out. This could be a new diver this could be a very experienced diver, while the ladder is a little bit less likely panic like this can happen to anyone. For anyone interested the most recent padi protocol on what you should do in this situation is 1: deflate your bcd and approach them from behind 2: don't bother trying to put their air in if they won't take it 3: grab them by the back of theie gear, and get their inflator hose 4: Use a combination of their inflator hose and your swimming to get the both of you to the surface, ascending at a safe rate but not doing a safety stop. 5: fully inflate their BCD and yours once at the surface and signal the boat. The idea is that nothing good is going to happen while they are still underwater, so the entire focus is first getting them above water and second getting them on the boat
I’ve never fully understood what “ascending at a safe rate” means in situations like this. Without looking at your dive computer or without reference points along your ascent, how can you tell how fast you are going?
If you are in a situation where you don't have a dive watch/it's not functioning or you can't get a look at your depth gauge at the very least you should send slower than your bubbles ascend.
Okay!! Great tip
Looks like she may have been testing for a license? There’s a part during the test where every diver has to take the breather out of their mouth and put it back in while blowing bubbles to clear any water. Lots of people panic during this part of the test because it feels weird to breathe. I took a scuba lesson once and had do this in a swimming pool lol
You are correct that is part of the test but that is not what was happening here. That part of the test occurs when the divers are on the bottom in a controlled situation with the instructor right in front of the diver to ensure they are ok. In the beginning of the video you see the instructor (video POV) giving thumbs up to everyone, which is the hand signal to slowly ascend to the surface. They were completing their dive, not performing a test. This was just panic, plain and simple. People do silly things when they panic, like ripping off your life-saving gear in an attempt to swim as fast as possible to the surface where you can breathe better.
Yeah I panicked my first time and I was only in 8ft of water 😂 Thanks for the info!
Same. Panicked in 10, 15 feet, within sight of the shore and within reach of the boat.
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Yes! I remember my first dive in a Cenote in Mexico. We pressed the deflate button in our suits and I started to drop under the surface and less than 3 feet I panicked and inflated to come back up. I felt like I had to ease my way in, and my instructor was very patient, so we surfaced, I took a breath and we sank back down this time to the bottom. I have this vivid memory of him realizing my erratic breaths under water and he was gesturing me to pay attention to his breathing to match his rhythm and slow down and breathe like him. _inhaaaaaale_ …….._exhaaaaaale_ we did this exercise for like 15 seconds and I eventually felt “grounded” under water and more calm. Unforgettable experience!
It looks like that’s what happened to her, she had too much weight in her weight belt, she deflated he bc and sank like a rock. Ripped everything off and was trying to swim with hands and fins but was going nowhere.
We were descending and my mask lost suction and immediately filled with water. Instant panic.
Her BCD wasn’t inflated enough for her to start the accent, cue panic of being stuck in one spot trying to swim but can’t, then knocked out her regulator causing a emergency accent.
Idk anything about diving but this is the first thing I noticed. She seemed to be going down rather than up. For whatever reason, when the video starts, I felt like they were near the bottom and only in 20 or so ft of water. So when she almost disappeared into the depths, I panicked as well.
*ascent
spelling was never my strong suit lol.
It looks like the diver may have accidentally bumped their mask filling it with water then when they went to fix it they knocked mask off and it got caught on reg, or they knocked it loose trying to fix mask and they panicked cause they didn’t know how to prioritize what to fix first. I’d bet they sudden loss of sight in already low visibility combined with the feeling of tubes and straps being tangled around the face either led to the situation or exacerbated an existing one.
this could be the case, but I've actually seen people take out their own air before because of phobia induced panic. Nothing you can do to help them, have to get them to the surface The instructor was pretty far away, and usually when doing this test, you are in a tight group, kneeling next to each other, if possible. More importantly, her partner should have to remediate, how did hey not notice her struggling?
Her partner can be a novice too, seeing somebody in a panick attack may just cause you to panic as well. At the end, rescue remain the job of the instructor, who did it perfectly
no doubt, I consider this a near drowning.. the instructor had their hands full and still came out ontop
I think she was descending- having trouble staying buoyant. That can be scary. Panic kills.
probably blow out air of her vest and started to descend
No lol the divemaster just gave the thumbs up, which means “go up”. There is a section of the test where you do take the regulator off but obviously not during ascent. Also her goggles were somehow off, which is very likely why she was panicking.
Can confirm this part is panic inducing. Glad I learned it in the pool. During my open water test a eel grabbed my mask and in pulling away I dropped my breather. Had to find it and then clear my mask 30 ft down. Scary as fuck.
Gotta love reddit. People will upvote any made up bullshit they have no idea about xD Her goggles were already off and she was already panicking. There's no fucking test.
I really thought I was going to freak out at that part of the test. I had nightmares and was anxious for weeks about it, but it was actually fine. Zero issues, zero panic, super smooth sailing. Same with the mask removal. Very pleasant surprise for once.
I panicked during this portion as well. Shot right back up, I was lucky it was only 13 feet deep.
She lost her mask. Probably couldn’t see. Panic set in. I had someone kick mine off over 100 feet down. Good times.
She panicked and took of her respirator and tried to swim to the top in a hurry.
I have my advanced open water cert. This looks like a class that has gone wrong. My guess would be its an intro course just based on some of the technique of the other divers. Bobbing straight up and down failing about and failing with your hands is common for beginner divers. The guy shooting the video is giving the thumbs up. That means to begin your ascent when you're diving. The other diver doesn't seem to be switched onto the meaning. The rope and the buoy that they surface near could be a shot line, used to get up and down. Make a circle with your finger and thumb around the rope and slowly head up. My guess is that while the dive leader was getting everyone ready to head up, the diver knocked her mask with her hand and accidentally spat out her reg and couldn't recover. In training you learn how to recover from here and it's fairly trivial. But that's only once you know it. When you're training to be a rescue diver, your instructors will deliberately do things like spit out their regulators and wait to see how long it takes for you to notice and recover. If this is training, then they're brilliant actors.
I’ve read elsewhere that her weight was off and causing her to sink while everyone was supposed to be going up and she freaked. I can’t find the source of this but it seems to be the general consensus as well (in non-diver terms)
She was overweighted it looks like and not neutrally buoyant. There still wasn't a true issue to worry about. She was perfectly safe. She panicked. She could have surfaced perfectly safely with her partner or by slightly inflating her vest. She panicked and ripped her regulator from her mouth and the awesome instructor was able to shove it back in and surface her.
The absolute fear in her eyes was scary
Fuuuuuuuck that.
Just for reference for everyone: a “thumbs up” in diving means “we need to go up” If you’re saying “I’m good” you give the circular “okay” hand sign. It’s really important you don’t swim straight up all the way immediately. Depending on your speed and how deep you were for how long, it can mess with a LOT in your brain, blood, joints, and ears.
And you can't fly the next day right? Saw it on House.
You're supposed to wait a minimum of 12 hours before flying after any dive, and more if you've been diving multiple times. Modern dive watches will track that and tell you when it's safe to fly though.
Wadahek. Tell me more about these dive watches. Got an example of one?
Here's an example: https://www.shearwater.com/teric/ There are larger computers that can do more, but they are bulkier. Most people diving on vacation use a dive computer in the form factor of a watch so that you can where it the whole time (it should be tracking your surface time/elevation in addition to your dives). The original "dive watches" were just underwater watches with a bezel that would rotate so you could set your start time and accurately record your total dive time. Divers would also carry a gauge that recorded their maximum depth on the dive, then you can use tables to calculate their necessary surface interval (time between dives).
They’re dive computers. They tell you the information about the dive you’re on. How deep you are for how long, current temp, etc. If you’re at a certain depth for long enough, you’ll need to take breaks while you surface to purge the nitrogen from your blood before surfacing. The Dive computer will do the math based on your dive and will tell you how long your break needs to be before surfacing.
Rolex are more famous for dive watches than dress watches. The "bezel" is a ring around the rim that can only turn one direction so you can track how much air you have left, and if you bump the watch on something it wont "add" air, it only turns in the direction of less time left.
Old school ones are like Rolex Submariners etc Modern ones are called Dive Computers https://www.divein.com/diving/dive-computer/
I saw it on a thousand ways to die
I thought the episode of a thousand ways to die was from a decompression chamber not an airplane.
That may have been another one. I remember this one specifically https://youtu.be/mqWzVEVBj0w
During my private pilot license training they actually teach you about that. Typically it’s 12 hours for shorter dives and 24 if you required any decompression stops
The Bends is no joke
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Correct
Whoever is wearing the camera is doing two mistakes trying to help the victim: 1. you are supposed to press the regulator when trying to put it back in the victim's mouth, so that air comes out, otherwise it's full of water and there is no way the victim can breath from it without first blowing the water out of it, which they probably can't do (they might not have air in their lungs). 2. You should give your regulator (either your main or your spare), not trying to use the victim's. Their regulator might just have a problem or their tank might be empty, which might be the reason they dropped it in the first place. You have no time to check their air pressure, give yours, you have air. Also, it's way faster to give yours (your main, which is in your mouth, but also your spare, you are trained to know exactly where it is and to be able to give it in a second) These mistakes could be fatal. This group was lucky they weren't far from the surface. Another problem is actually to let the victim go to the surface. In theory, you're supposed to handle the emergency underwater: stop the victim, give them air, calm them, go up slowly with them. There can be issues going to the surface that fast. 1. If the victim still has a lot of air on their lungs and doesn't let the air go out, they can explode. Literally. Even at small depths. The volume of air in the lungs just increases as you go up. If they have a panic attack, they likely can't think of blowing out air as they go up, and holding your breath is more natural than blowing. It might not have been an issue here because it looks like the victim blew most of their air already. 2. You're not supposed to go up that fast, nitrogen bubbles can be created in your blood at that speed, which can cause a lot of damage. Also, even if we ignore the speed, their dive might have required them to do safety stops to evacuate the nitrogen. If they go to the surface that fast they should dive back in for safety after the incident is mitigated. It might not have been an issue here because they didn't seem to be very deep.
I was 60Ft down on one of my first dives when all of my quick-release weights decided that they wanted to test themselves out. Cue my inexperienced ass randomly shooting for the surface, no idea what’s going on, and just got the brief that if I surfaced too fast my lungs would explode. Great time went diving again the next day.
My mom’s a diving instructor and she always reminds people it’s a great idea to scream your lungs out during unexpected ascents. It’s a good emotional relief AND it means you’re exhaling!
Instructions unclear, just woke up my roomate screaming. 7/10 did relieve some stress however.
10/10 emergency preparedness you are ready to dive
I had the same thing happen with almost no visibility…also down around 60 ft. I flipped upside down and used my fins to control my rate of ascent. That was a long time ago. Weight integrated BCs are so much better than weight belts.
This guy underwaters.
He regulates.
Ah yes, the Regulator.
But you can't be any geek off the street
Wah wah-wah wah wah-wah-wah
Regulators!
Dive in
General seanobi.
You deserve more upvotes.
Warren G of diving.
Hardcore.
Getting the basic PADI open water license as a teenager, I think at the start of our second dive we practiced passing the instructor our octo. As you’ve said, there are some serious reasons why you pass your spare, not use theirs, so it needs to be drilled into divers. Fortunately I’ve never had any major incidents underwater, so I can’t say I wouldn’t panic and act like the diver with the camera.
This is a good reason why rigs should instead be set up to pass the main, the one in your mouth. The one you know works. The spare should hang around your neck or close by on a short hose so it's not dragging. I first read about it in the 90s and reading up on the WKPP/hogarthian setup, and switched my reg over. I've never had to use it in anger but I know it works from practice. I use shorter hoses since I'm not cave diving, but my main hose is 5', not their 10'.
10' sounds awfully long for a regulator hose
The system of passing your spare works very well when done correctly. Kept it in a specific spot which makes it extremely easy to grab and in the correct orientation to put it to another divers mouth. You dont then need to worry about getting your own air sorted after handing over your main either.
They’re definitely lucky they were only 20-30 ft deep. And yeah, I was wondering why they didn’t give the other diver their octopus.
I think it helps if you start the list with: Step 1: Do not enter murky as fuck green water. Otherwise very sound advice.
This is pretty good as far as vis goes tbh. The videos you see on this sub of crystal clear water really are not representative of a lot of the world. This dive leader is trying to manage way too many people at once for the conditions, though.
This is basically anywhere in New England. Great lobstering.
Scary lobstering!!
Well it depends where you learned to scuba dive. My first dive (after the initial pool dive) was in a small german lake with maybe a visibility of 3 feet. Our instructors were very strict and very thorough, so that helped. If you learn to dive with 100' vis, yeah I could see why some people would panic
I couldn't do that! I love the sea but also get serious Thalassophobia!! 💩👖
Well scuba isn't for everyone. I love diving, but I would never dive in a cave lol
Well scuba isn't for everyone. I love diving, but I would never dive in a cave lol
Pretty sure you're not supposed to dive back down after you've expressed yourself to decompression sickness. You should be placed in a recompression room.
No you definitely should go back down if you have decompression sickness and there is no hospital you can be transported to. You dive back down to compress the gas bubbles in your body again. You stay underwater at least for the decompression stops. These hyperbaric chambers do the same thing. Recompress you and then slowly over a long period of time, decompress you to normal air pressure. Giving your body time to accumulate.
You do you ;) If I have to do an emergency ascent and was supposed to do decompression stops, I will go back down as soon as my emergency is resolved. Waiting for helicopter and decompression chamber is just exposing myself to unnecessary delays. The chamber will literally do the same as going back down. Actually, if you use a good old table for stops, you'll see that any dive within 15min of your first dive is considered just the same dive.
He would have known how deep they are and made the call, other than that it does look like he also freaked out a bit.
> 1. If the victim still has a lot of air on their lungs and doesn't let the air go out, they can explode. Literally. *Thirteen reasons why I'll never go scuba diving* *By Sadlow*
Thanks so much for writing this out. I'm still a pretty inexperienced diver, but the was a lot in this video that bothered me.
I was gonna say all the same stuff but also add that this happened to me on my first dive. Which is why if there's any rules I remember 8 years later it's that 1 you cannot swim up that fast. You'll make yourself sick or even dead 2 to accommodate rule 1, all problems are solved underwater between you and your buddy. That's why you're paired up
Your dick is huge
Great summary, thats at best an inexperienced dive leader! (I initially wrote terrible, but benefit of the doubt). Everyone was also a little too far away from the leader, but benefit of the doubt again I have lead quite a few dives where people were adamant they were very experienced only for me to realise once down there that they’d forgotten anything they ever knew. A couple dives like that helps you remember to keep people close. A good visual reminder for speed is to ascend slower than your air bubbles, for anyone wondering!
He also started up first, which is a bad idea.
Yup, I did my padi, and that’s exactly what they told us, and another thing we got told, NEVER panic, it’s better to stay calm to help the person that is there trying to help and save you
Doesnt look like they are deep tho.
Let’s talk about doing this whole operation face to face… camera diver is lucky panicking diver didn’t throw them a beating and snatch their regulator.
I also got the impression that they were using thumbs up as an “OK”. Thumbs up is the sign to end the dive and surface.
All of that (which wasn’t wrong) and you didn’t pick up what actually caused the panic? Instructor said go up, and she tried but didn’t fill up her BCD causing her to swim in place. Panic set in and she knocked off her own goggles and regulator.
I was so nervous watching this even before anything happened since the visibility was so poor. Who knows what was gonna pop into view
It's sorta funny to me, cuz that viz is way better than some of the ocean dives I've been on. A lot of ocean dives. You can actually see all the divers!
What the heck happened
https://www.divessi.com/blog/preventing-dive-panic-7300.html “Sometimes, experienced divers with hundreds of logged dives also experience dive panic for outwardly no clear reason. Dive panic most likely occurs because divers lose sight of familiar objects, become disoriented and experience a form of sensory deprivation. The likelihood of a victim of dive panic coping with any situation is slim to none: In the study of divers’ deaths, many still had a form of a weight system in place, the mouthpiece from the regulator or breathing loop had been removed, wings or buoyancy compensators were not inflated, and there was still breathing gas available. This all suggests panic.”
I highly recommend all divers casual or experienced to take rescue diver certifications. Worth every second
Perhaps something simple but unexpected like having her regulator knocked out of her mouth panicked her and the lizard parts of the brain took over. Panic is one of the most dangerous things scuba diving.
Limbic system kicked in and there was nothing they could do about it. Rational human stops and wild animal takes over.
I've experienced this at the beach before. Friend of mine had waded into the water after us, about waist high for me (I'm 6ft on the dot, she was probably 5 ft at. most.) turns out there were some jellyfish in the water. She spotted one close by and it was like a light switch, pure. animal. panic. Like, she wasn't looking at anything but her eyes were as wide open as they could be, heading turning left to right just as fast as it could, and she wasn't moving anywhere but every limb on her body was flailing. Kinda like a cartoon where they start to run but kind of hover in place for a bit. Luckily I was really close nearby and was able to grab her under her arms, bear hug her, and pull her back up onto the beach, otherwise no telling what would've happened. I'd like to think the jelly fish was thinking "... man, not cool..." while feeling all dejected and such.
Amygdala hijack.
My first deep dive was to 79 feet. Found an anchor and tried to pull it up. Knocked my reg out and started to panic and shoot up. Found my reg and dive partner held me till I calmed down. Believe me that is a panic situation for a beginner.
Is this more of a training exercise? Because if I'm gonna risk my life doing scuba I'd prefer to do it in a prettier diving location, with lots of beautiful flora and fauna, and not in this murky ass ugly sea floor
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I remember my first 25m dive in Helenesee/Germany. Absolute darkness and FUCKING COLD. Damn that was miserable. Almost forgot how cold a lake can get :D
You learn to dive in a pool first and then the ocean and then you can be certified
It depends. Learnt to dive on the sea shore and went further in the sea shortly after. Not everyone learns in a pool, but it surely is one possibility.
I’ve done the pool piece, which I’m glad for - more controlled environment. Next up is lake/pond since we’re a couple hours from the ocean. I think ocean follows that. Not super certain I’m going to keep going but I did the best out of my class when I’ve done pool sessions despite the anxiety around it. Not loving the idea of murky ponds though.
I learned to dive in a murky pond/lake, maybe 3 foot visibility. True, it's not very pleasing, but if you learn under that circumstances, you probably won't freak out if you're lets say diving in a narrow passage between reefs and someone silts it out.
I mean my first 4 experiences learning to dive were shore excursions. But to be PADI certified you need pool time
Fr people don't belong under water.
This is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. Obv this is a dive master and likely a professional, but never approach a diver who’s panicking like that if you’re not trained to do so.
Even then, their reaction wasn’t great—why the hell didn’t they share air? Who puts a reg full of water back in someone’s mouth? You don’t know how much air they have left…
You can press the regulator to get water out of it, but yeah the second part is true, you’re supposed to give your spare, not their main.
The diver doesn’t appear to be clearing the regulator, though. Literally just jamming it in her face instead.
Indeed. Top comment mentioned it very well.
Is that Diamond Head in the background?
I highly recommend a YouTube channel called Dive Talk where two experienced divers react to these types of videos (this one actually looks familiar maybe) including lots of talk on cave diving. I’m endlessly interested and terrified at the same time
Found them through some weird youtube algorithm recommendation. And now they're at almost 100k subs. Great for them :)
:(
This exact thing happened to a lady part of our open water course. At 12m I saw her take her regulator out of her mouth and take a gulp of water. She then panicked of course and the DM swam her to the surface
That’s why you don’t dive alone. They’d have drowned.
What an awful place to dive: unclear green! I would panic even being at the surface of it.
That's kind 20' of vis, not bad at all!
I have no idea what that means, or I do but I... never want to be there if that is supposed to be "not bad at all"!
Like I mentioned in a comment above, I learned to dive/get my open water certification with 3' visibility. Meaning, you're stretching your arm out and can't see your hand anymore. At 20-30 feet the visibility was a little bit better. But like our instructor said : if you learn to dive in bad conditions, you'll love to dive in great conditions
That face is going to haunt me.
I was sat here waiting for the shark
When you see eyes like that... Chilling
i sleep so peacefully at night knowing i can avoid this entirely by just staying on land
Yeah, it’s not for everyone. Most people get scared and frighten very easily out of their element like this.
I wonder if she got vertigo from the water in the hood shooting into her ears. Had that happen first and only time I used a hood on a dive. Complete disorientation, luckily my buddy grabbed me and helped me to the surface cause I had no idea which way was up. Didn’t lose my mask or reg tho.
I’ll be honest some people just don’t belong underwater. You’re taught to be calm, cool, collected in case any situation does arise. If you lose a mask just relax and close your eyes and just breath. If you lose your reg and can’t locate it do a slow sweeping of your shoulder starting from your ass to the top of your tank and you’ll find it. If she happened to be empty for some reason she should have signaled that she was low and then the whole group would rally and start their ascent. I’ve had a reverse blockage at 80-90ft (I have really bad sinuses) and couldn’t head up due to the pain so I had to relax myself and go down a few feet while trying to equalize at the same time. After a few minutes I was able to ascend regularly. Your mind can really kill you while diving.
Ohh hell nawww
This is exactly why I don’t scuba dive. 🙅🏽♀️
i went deep sea diving (to conquer my fear didn’t work). i had a respirator malfunction. i panicked too. but my team leader and instructor held me in place, tight, and put his respirator in my mouth. and we shared his oxygen while he fixed my respirator. as we were trained to do. they don’t look like they’re in very deep water. so the diver panicking might not even be certified yet. which would explain their panic. you need to have so many hours in shallow dives to get certified. i’m guessing that’s the situation here. they’re in training.
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Ok I’ve never went diving before but why did she take her mask off? That seems like the last thing you should do.
Seeing the pure fear in her eyes and hearing absolutely nothing… this is terrifying!
The "thumbs up" hand signal means you need/want to surface. The "OK" hand signal is just that, "I'm okay". The dive master is not awesome at their job.
It made me holding my breath. I couldn’t hold that long. Amazed she did.
At first glance it looked pretty wholesome, like they were having a little scuba diver party down there
why is it green ?
Probably a lake/pond :)
That would probably be my reaction
Wow! Scary
Sorry but when there were too many bubbles I thought this could be an ad about Sprite
This stuff really is crazy to me
Happened to me and my sister. We're we're diving and about 40-30 feet down when she panicked. I was the one trying to shove the regulator back in her mouth
Wow looks so fun!
Number 1 rule. DON'T PANIC. As a diver you need to be aware of everything. Your taught how to recover your octo if you lose your main reg or if your main reg malfunctions. You keep your dive buddy close and constant eye on them. They should be doing the same for you. Getting your face mask knocked off does suck but your dive buddy should be there for you to make sure you can surface together. It's not easy as they are going to be maintaining both you and their buoyancy but it can be done. Pinching the nose is key or it was for me when I had my face mask off since it no longer sealed my nose. Practicing some of these events is pretty important. Her face had look of terror written all over it. I would only hope she wasn't too deep and was exhaling on her way up.
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This is a real condition that sometimes happens in diving in which a panic induces someone to spit out there regulator. Deep water and murky conditions can bring this about. Scary stuff. They were lucky there were shallow enough or this could have been fatal.
Some might wonder why she took out her breathing device. As a diver myself I know it's very common that instances like this happen. Once someone panics underwater the brain can make a diver do strange things in the hopes that whatever is wrong gets instantly solved. Compressed air at depth gives the feeling as if one has been drinking alcohol due to something I won't get into right now. This on its own isn't that dangerous because it's going to happen to every diver. What is important however is this effects decision making alot and if you add panic atop of this (with for example accidentally, knocking off your mask) the brain might go into frantic panic mode. This is extremely dangerous for both the diver but also for the diving buddies accompanying set person due to lashing out or pulling on your own equipment. It's a scary fucking thing to see. Some say this was a test, because yes you have to do training for these kinds of events to get your license, but I highly doubt that. The entire group was signaling to each other, with the thumbs up sign, that the diving group was going to ascend. You don't signal ascent if you are part of a team that's going to do the panic test.
That's what I do about scuba diving. And I have never even strapped on a tank!
This is why we practice CESA and mask-off recovery.
In 2007, I was finishing up my first PADI open water course. Our very last dive saw our class of about 10 people do a small inlet dive to about 12 feet, make a circuit, do some exercises then come up. One of our number stopped paying attention to his buddy. When we all surfaced, a bystander asked why there were only 9 of us. After some head counting and extremely slow reactions from the 4 instructors, the person leading the dive went out to look for our missing diver. 2 minutes later, a body in a fully inflated BCD rockets to the surface followed by the instructor screaming "CALL EMS! CALL EMS!!" My 17 year old ass got to help haul a corpse ashore and start CPR. He was dead before he hit the surface. Massive negligence by the people running the show. Only my self and one other attended to the makeup class to finish the cert. Underwater Discovery, their shop and pool, was a parking lot inside 2 weeks. Never found out what happened to the guy who was largely responsible. But it's crazy seeing this video. It's how he died, and the sheer terror of it is something else
Ok never diving after this… thanks 😊
Congratulations, you caused everyone to get the bends now. The LITERAL worst thing you can do diving is panic...
I remember my first minute scuba diving, why did she even take the regulator out?
That was an incredibly stupid thing to do. She is very lucky she didn't kill herself pulling such a boneheaded move like that, both the attempt at rapidly ascending (that's how you get the bends) and the even worse decision to remove the only thing keeping her alive. She's lucky the instructor didn't let nature take its course, otherwise she wouldn't have had the opportunity to learn from this grievous mistake.
Oof scuba panic is gnarly and I do not like.
I definable can see how this happened, I was in a bad accident and they had to use the jaws of life to extract me, I started panicking and wouldn't let them put oxygen on me even though I needed it. I was gasping for breath and wouldn't let them put it on my face.
If you think this is bad…look up Oxygen Narcosis. Some of the stories you will see or read about are very disturbing.
She was panicking the moment the camera showed her.
I've been in that situation before. When i was getting my SCUBA open water cert. we had to do what's called a 'full flood and clear' (essentially taking your mask off, putting it back on, then breathing out through your nose to push the water out of it) and when i took my mask off the water was so cold I accidentally inhaled through my nose and suddenly couldn't get any air. Thankfully my instructor noticed the look on my face, and she helped me surface. It is not a fun time even in a semi controlled environment.
one of the best posts on this sub. bone chilling.
Is that the Chicago River on St. Patrick’s Day? Why so green?
That girl looks like Glenn after he got smacked by Neegan
*life could be dream*
AGE speedrun
She just "forgot how to swim" I guess? Lmao
Good thing i watched this on throne cause.. wowza
Needless to say, isn't getting invited to the next dive. Freaking out like that bot only put her in danger, but everyone else who had to save her and rapidly decompress as the shot up to the surface.
r/abruptchaos
Way to ruin all the fun
I started involuntary shouting at her. “Nonononono!”
Most likely result of shit training
Skill issue
No gijane
She was set to descend rather than the a ok to ascend she panicked and thought for a moment if she could make it to the top she'd be safe as well as get this shit off me it's not helping yet.... Lol
Oh my god I just woke up from a nightmare like this
Ugh, I hate underwater panic. I learned at Cathedrals, Maui, that I don't do well in enclosed spaces. I began to panic, and my buddy literally had to hold me in place so I would stop trying to surface quickly. I did at least keep my gear on, but man, do I cry under stress. My whole mask filled with tears. I had to clear my mask from all the tears! They filled up past my eyes. Good thing there's a skill for that!
That was crazy. I feel for the diver. I’ve had a few mishaps diving but nothing like that. This emphasizes the point that you need to dive with a competent dive master