Diving Disaster

1) regulator wheezing like a dog chew toy 2) BCD’s not inflated before exiting boat 3) OP doesn’t ever surface after entering water , just sees people near the dive line and swims over 4) When descending , someone literally inverts 180 and starts finning down 5) Descent far too fast with no buddy system cooperation or communication. Everyone doing their own thing. 6) Ruptures ear drum but carries on anyway instead of stopping and ascending when first feeling discomfort 7) OP has bad vertigo despite being able to see the bottom and the descent line, doesn’t end the dive 8) Everyone finning like madmen even using their hands to try and stay neutral - horribly overweighted and or zero bcd control 9) NOBODY checks their pressure gauges or dive computers 10) Waseem dragged out of water unconscious and left to die on the deck. Forget oxygen, nobody even bothers to get him into the recovery position. This is a good training resource - did I miss anything.

"advanced training dive " ??? 1 Burst eardrum, 1 panicked diver, 1 guy knocks the reg out of another guys mouth....more like the three stooges try scuba

if you’re ever losing control of what’s up or down on an open water dive, look at your bubbles and follow them. they always go up, unless you’re in a very strong current.

The amount of things wrong with this dive is astounding. Chimpdongs did a good summary of the issues. For me that reg screeching like a parrot being throttled was painful. That reg hadn't been serviced in years. Waseem is lucky to be alive. And the ignorance of the skipper and DM to just leave Waseem unattended on the deck without providing O2 and FA is unforgivable

My folks always said if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. That looks like a nice boat.

"Nothing you can learn in a text book could prepare us...." Literally everything in the textbook would prepare you for that.

I've never been diving in my life but is it fair to assume that the constant wheezing isn't a good thing?

4:50 all of the viewers

As an instructor (Master SCUBA Diver Trainer), that dive was a total disaster. Everything that happened was preventable. These divers were not properly prepared for this deep dive, they did not observe proper buddy contact, they did not descend appropriately, they did not maintain contact with the descent line, they appeared to be grossly over weighted - even in full wet suits and sea water, and, personally, I would not have my students so dispersed and out of my view on a training dive. The response to the emergency on the video appeared inadequate. If I have a questionable diver, I have firm contact with that diver to ensure I can control the ascent. We frequently encourage new divers to continue with their Advanced course immediately after Open Water. There is a lot of emphasis on self-led training. Many people need help with the academic part of the training. The "books" identify the possible problems and corrective actions. Understanding these and adequate training can minimize the potential risks. The buddy rule, for example, would have minimized the effect of the burst ear drum. The buddy should have been with him. He should have aborted the dive with his buddy. With three divers, I would have assigned them as a team of three so they all stay together. They should all been aware of each other and prepared to help their team members if a problem occurs. This dive would have been over for everyone at that time. Proper descent and ear clearing would have prevented the ear problem. Head down descents make it harder to equalize. When wearing hoods, it is necessary to pull the hood away from the head to help equalize. The hood can seal around the outer ear creating another airspace. I don't know if they were properly trained on using a full wetsuit. I don't know if they did a weight check to verify the amount of weight they wearing was appropriate but it looked like they were too heavy. I did not see a check on this dive. Videos like these scare potential divers. It does NOT have to be this way.

God forbid i ever hear "this is your divemaster, Waseem!" I'll be sitting that dive out

It’s like An introduction in a theme song Nikki “the one who keeps everyone calm” Doug “ The one who bursts his eardrum”

The comments on this are great, considering I know nothing about diving, I'm going to take that the 10/10 people telling you guys that you made laughable rookie mistakes are right. Lmaooo

Why did you continue your decent when you failed to equalize your ear pressure? Even after your ear drum burst you continued to descend.... why?? I'm baffled!

"nothing you learn in a textbook could prepare you for what happened that day"?!Everything you learn from your textbook's could prevent let alone prepare you for what happened that day :/

On my fourth ever OW dive I had a whole train wreck of a dive. I had a buddy with me that was really struggling with buoyancy control whilst we swam along a wall and had a 35+m hole beneath us. I needed to reseat my mask as it was constantly filling, I partially took it off and took a face full of sand as my buddy kicked off the wall. The sand got into my mask and at the same time my weight belt dropped to my knees. I was stuck, trying to sort my weight belt out with my eyes closed but I had also started to sink, I could only tell this because it was getting darker... over that 35m hole. My instructor attempted to push me into the wall so I would stop slipping but I felt it as her trying to remove my weight belt and it had gotten a lot darker (probably because I was up against the wall). I took this as time for a CESA (emergency ascent). I kicked for the surface, eyes closed, one hand on my weight belt at my knees and one on my LPI deflate button and then, I had a free flow (probably triggered by the heavy breathing from starting to panic) AND my left fin popped off. I'm now at 18m ish, freeflowing, blind, no spare hands and only one fin to kick with. Thankfully, 18m ish isn't too far but in 10C water (wetsuit + oversuit), no air and one fin, whilst screaming (for CESA, not from panicking, although I definitely was) it felt like forever to get up to the surface. I was absolutely freaked and needed to get on dry land. Thankfully my instructor was just amazing. He waited at distance to get me to calm, towed me back to land, allowed me to regain control and did the right thing, told me to get back in the water. If I didn't get back in, right there, I don't think I could have brought myself to carry on diving and I'm super glad he had the patience and absolute chill to get me back in and the decency/courtesy to allow me to finish the OW dive as a duo to be signed off on that section. I spent hours running through what happened and determined it was the best thing for me. It was one hell of learning experience and, before I'd get back in the water, things had to change. I researched and picked out better fins, I bought a backplate and wing BCD with integrated pockets to remove the need for a belt, I cancelled my plan to buy a set of regs and save a bit more for something beefier (MTX-Rs in the end) and less likely to free flow and, have run drills in my mind and in training pools to calm and drill reacting better to mishaps.

I've been paired with other Divemasters and watched them panic. I've seen instructors break for the surface and end up in a chamber. Evidently, all the experience in the world can't predict one's behavior when panic takes over.

I have never commented on a KZhead video here but I just have to jump in. If you are watching this as a new diver or thinking of learning to dive or just wondering about diving, this is NOT anything like normal diving. These divers apparently learned very little in their dive training and were not close to ready for this fairly simple dive. The diver with vertigo should have aborted the dive immediately, ascending with his buddy (tho it was hard to tell if he even had a buddy) following the upline and bubbles for orientation and safety. No problem there. Not sure why the diver panicked but I'm betting it was a buoyancy issue caused by too much weight. Again, good buoyancy control and proper weighting (all open water lessons) and this is a non-issue. I'm totally confused on how the videographer had his regulator knocked out of his mouth except all the divers seemed to have little to no buoyancy control and spent the dive flailing with hands and feet to compensate and move. Proper buoyancy control and efficient movement are both basic OWD requirements. Finally, I'm not clear why a simple arm sweep wasn't used to recover the knocked out 2nd stage. This is a 1st pool dive skill that is repeated and tested over and over - and super simple and really hard to screw up. Seriously, please do not think this is scuba diving. These folks should never have been let out of the pool and/or given open water certification cards. None of these things should ever happen to divers who have passed the open water course instruction and/or whose divemaster/instructor/dive boat operator was doing their job. Maybe this could be a first post-certification dive with a new dive operator but if the instructor took these folks down this way, knowing their skills, his certification should be suspended.

As someone in training. (Have only done 4 pool dives) I am amazed that they let these people out of the pool. My instructor would have aborted the dive if any of us even tried to go down headfirst or without a slow controlled decent and verifying every 3 feet that we were comfortable and hand signalling to us that we were using the Valsalva maneuver. Doesn't discourage me because I'm determined to make gradual and comfortable steps to become an experienced diver. I love learning to dive. I hope this doesn't discourage anyone.

“Nothing in a textbook could have prepared us for this...” All of that could have been prevented by following the guidelines in the basic open water textbook. Dealing with panicked divers is well addressed in the rescue diver course textbooks.

It looks like its all yalls first dive, this is pure madness!

Looks like scuba certification from Dunkin Donuts 🤪

This was an ugly dive. And the conditions were amazing! I can't imagined what would happen if they tried European waters. The worst part is "soon to be dive masters"

Panic attacks are no joke... glad everyone survived that trip

Thank you for sharing this. I had a similar experience doing my NAUI Rescue Divers course. We did the deep dive ice cold and dark, but clear, sweet water, at 32m in flooded quarry. I was teamed up with a young fellow who became increasingly unresponsive as soon as we settled on the quarries floor for some simple exercises. Then he spit out his regulator, repeating this after I stuck it in again. I was also slowed down considerably in my reactions. The diving instructor, a german ex-Marine educator, quickly reacted to my signalling and the situation, leaving us to a controlled and normal surfacing procedure while ascending in an accelerated manner with the unconscious guy. Later, the told that during the ascend, the regulator iced after using the purge button for each attempt to reinsert it, making buancy control a pain due to the guys tank blowing empty rapidly. On top of that, the guy awoke and struggled violently. Security stop was rather short due to these circumstances. The guy went directly into a pressurized emergency tube, while the instructor submerged again. I went as deep as 45 meters in clear warm water without experiencing any of this. Might have had to do with the cold, or maybe the adrenalin due to the dark - I dont know exacltly. But respect depth.

"Advanced"? omg. How did they survive the beginner's classes?

Diving is just like any other activity. When it becomes extremely uncomfortable, people want to simply stop. Stopping the activity of being underwater means a hasty, dangerous trip to the surface in every possible wrong way. I was 60' down, and was attacked by a large Remora who wanted me to be his shark. I pretty much lost my shit, and wanted to return to the surface immediately. It was my calm, professional dive guide who kept me down, and helped me regain my composure. I actually enjoyed the rest of the dive instead of dying.

4:51 "Why on earth did I even agree to come with u guy's?"

You gotta love the Woman, Niki, at 04:51 She didn't know what these fools were doing either.

Ugliest dive I've ever seen. Looks like you guys were fresh out of the pool on your first open water.

"Soon we'll be Dive Masters''. What are you talking about? you just did an ''Advanced Dive'', and in 5 minutes you blew an eardrum, had your friend panic, then you knocked the one thing he needed to survive out of his mouth.

So professional, look at the help and support given to the panic diver. You guys are amazing, just drop him on the bottom of the boat and he will be fine.

I got my C-Card close to 40 years ago. Every Wednesday night we would spend three hours at the Dive Instructor's house for quite a few weeks learning how NOT to scuba dive, we ended up calling it 999 ways to die underwater.....But it stuck with me. I still dive using my original C-Card, I still plan my dive base of a table profile (but let the computer assist me), but the first Wednesday night way back then was titled "Failing to Plan - Planning to Fail" and that still resonates with me today. These guys don't even deserve to be OW qualified let alone DM's.

Wow. That vid is making me realize why ppl are so, so careful about checking out potential new buddies for signs of stupid behaviour.

Wow. Can't believe no one died during that fiasco. Whoever the instructor was, he should be removed from teaching status. I've been diving for 20 years and seen a lot, but that vid left me speechless. No checks on the way down to make sure everything was green to go, terrible buddy communications at depth, everybody vertical in the water, flapping their arms about like a pack of albatrosses knocking regs out of each other mouths..........seriously, I'm surprised there wasn't a body recovery later. For the record, if you're experiencing severe vertigo, you are having an inner ear problem as you are not equalizing effectively. Ascend. It's that simple. Not sure why the other dude was in panic mode, assuming he was simply overwhelmed for whatever reason. Here's the Golden Rule pal. When it's all going to shit for whatever reason, stop. Stop everything. Breathe regularly, and think. Adjust your buoyancy, make contact with your buddy, and think of the solution to your problem. Every problem has a solution underwater, and may be as simple as doing a controlled ascent and scrapping the dive. And seek out competent instructors!!

Someone bursting their eardrums happened once in my diving school's 10 year existence..

Thankyou for this video. I did my deep dive advanced in 2020 aged 69 yrs…. It went well but I do know I have never done so much self talk in my whole life as I do when at depth…. I am now 71 and hope I can continue to dive for a few more years yet, how many I don’t know , but it was a dream I had for many many years to dive and it finally happened when I was 65 yrs of age. Seeing what can go wrong is not scary, it is a reminder to me always to be a little scared every dive…. It makes me concentrate more…… xx

My last dive of my trip, I was running out of air and my Dive Master who was leading the dive didn't seem to care. Through out the whole dive he never asked any of the 4 of us diving what our remaining air was. I decided to make the decision myself, do my own stop time and told my buddy I am going to start my accent. I am lucky i did as I was under 200psi and I knew I was going to be in trouble at the surface with strong waves. I ended up doing my own decompression stop and then barely had enough air to inflate my BCD. This was a good call on my part and my wife who is a very experienced diver said I did the right steps to safeguard myself. In the end, you have to do what is right for you, that's the motto of my Dive Master who certified me.

If only there was a big great white shark watching all of this laughing and then at the end it made an appearance

Thank you for this. I feel a little less bad about panicking a little when we did our first attempted scuba dive into the ocean in my gap year - it was out first dive into the ocean itself instead of a practice pool, and upon starting our group decent, I could not pop my ears at all. I had to unhook my arms from my diving partner to prevent him from pulling me down further, alerted one of the few instructors with us, and she helped me ascend and get back to shore. I started to panic when I couldn't equalise and the group continued descending without us, but the instructor kept me calm and even towed me back to shore when I started hyperventilating. I love the ocean and I love swimming in water, so I could not understand why I panicked over such a simple test dive. I have always had anxiety, so it must have been triggered by things not going according to plan. The rest of the group managed their controlled test dive just fine, but I was unable to continue with scuba diving because I just could not get my ears to equalize even at a 2m depth. I might try again someday for shallow dives in clearer water, but at least now I know anyone can become panicked even if they have actual open water experience.

I agree a lot of things were likely done wrong here, vertigo and narcosis possibly played a role as well. I have dived False bay in Cape town and have never struggled with vertigo or narcs but had my first ever vertigo on a dive out there. Visibility isn't glassy like a tropical vacation. I think if that is all you have ever dived in, this will be an eerie experience the first time. At about 15m it feels like you are in a bubble, you have to look at your bubbles to guage up and down, suddenly the wreck appears, vertigo disappears and you realise you are now dropping like a rock. If you stay calm all will be okay, panick and you have this. Growing up average vis was 5m, so 10m plus feels like paradise. I think a proper history of where people were trained and typically dive should be done before doing a course down South in South Africa, else go up the East coast for clear water.

This was an ADVANCED training dive?? With all that arm-flapping, you guys look like you've never had fins strapped to your feet before.

if you dont know if it is up or down. fallow your air bubbles.

Can't wait for Dive Talk to cover this buffonery

"Soon to be Dive Masters" wow, it's sad that a lot of people would assume a person with this title has actual experience and end up badly hurt or dead going diving with them

Jesus, whatever "school" you were in should have their creds revoked. Looked like 3 COMPLETE beginners.

WOW... no doubt... WAY too fast of a decent! Never had a chance to equalize properly going down that fast! This definitely is a great tutorial of what NOT to do on a dive! EVERYTHING was just WRONG! Everyone should have descended SLOWLY and TOGETHER as a group, having time to equalize and monitor each other for early problems. You can't tell who was who's dive buddy! Also, shame on the instructor for not having or administering oxygen.

I had a panic attack under the water on my first entry into a closed off space. The feeling was horrible, my head was spinning and I couldn’t breathe. I notified my instructor and we left the wreck. Once I got out it took everything inside of me not to swim straight up but I trusted my teacher and stayed at the bottom until I got my breathing under control. We then went back in and I completed my course. I learned important lessons which were to be aware of how you’re feeling before the dive (my best friend had passed a few days before and I was in a very emotional state) and most important was that when shit hits the fan, don’t let emotions take over. Follow what you’ve been taught and trust in your abilities to sort them out. Everyone gets scared at some point and that’s fine, just don’t let that fear beat you!

seeing this video I must be thankful to my instructors for advising me to build a lot of experience before deep diving. I am currently a rescue diver and waiting the end of the lockdown to do the deep practice. I saw so many errors in the dive. I can't blame you for all of it, but I can blame who took you there.

As an instructor globally for over 10 years this is one of the worst conducted deep adventure dives I've ever seen. Absolutely shocking. If you're a new diver, this is what NOT to do. ALL of the divers on this video should be hanging their heads in shame, not posting it on KZhead. New divers - don't worry is there is a safe, well managed way to conduct deeper dives.

When she made the "I don't know..." gesture I laughed outloud.

I've been diving my whole life I'm certified OWSI with several advanced certifications including rescue diving. This is a textbook example of how panic can turn bad real quick, and the person in panic will grab and try to get your regulator. I've been in this same situation with my own regulator failing. You have to control the panic and do as taught . There's a reason you have training perhaps this young man didn't have the training he needed and was pushed through the class to make money ? It happens I hope not ..

I’m sorry this is not a “regular dive” this dive was so scuffed it’s not even funny. Reg seems faulty, divers are woefully unprepared, procedure isn’t followed and that’s just the beginning of it. It’s blatantly obvious that this dive should not have taken place, both due to the poor practice from both divers and instructors.

Kind of amazing how OP comes across as very condescending towards Waseem in the captions when OP is the reason this entire thing happened in the first place. You say none of this can be learned in a text book, but I'm pretty sure it says very clearly in the text book to descend at a slow, controlled rate and to equalize early and often. OP did neither and blew out his ear drum

Maaan this ain't flappy bird, tuck your hands in and move with your legs god dammit

I want to share: my last dive a long time ago, I got vertigo too, I was almost certain I was going to pass out, my double (don't know how say dive partner in english) was a bit ahead, I tried to catch his attention but he was too distracted, I was about to panic, I knew I was going to pass out and would probably die, I tried to swim up, something was wrong, I was not going up. In a last attempt to I inflated my jacket just a bit, I knew this was not correct procedure but I had to do something, need just a bit of air in the jacket to help bring me up to surface, even if I had some kind of decompression consequences, as I got near surface my vision got a tunnel black, when I surfaced I was still having tunneled vision. I fully inflated my jacket and recovered from my incident, hopefully got no decompression problem. I never dived again, lost my interest, forgot about it until I saw this video. I am glad that God helped me, I was on the verge of loosing it but I got clear instruction in my mind to get me out of the situation. 🙏🏻

“Ok Guys now remember what I said,the treasure on the wreck is long gone,so it’s not a race to the bottom. Doug I know Nikki is pretty,but no 180 * navy seal dives today,let’s buddy up and descend slowly,equalising as we go,you with the solid gold weight belt,lose half pal.. Go pro lad ,inflate your Bs a little.. Ok safety first,nice and easy,let’s have a great dive.. 1 2 3 ...”

How is this an Advanced Training Dive? All the divers look like they havent been below 50ft before. Most of the divers on this video have very stressful fin kicks...just my thoughts

Guy had wayyyyyy to much weight on. He was sinking FAST.

There is no way that these people are certified divers!

Thank god I got NAUI certified through a 3 month college course. The details and training will last forever. None of that 3 day training crap to get your cert...

When I talk about scuba diving, there are two points that I refer to as the most important. First, divers must develop a firm grip on their imagination and second, they must have be able to manage their ears. Early in my diving experience, I had reverse blocks occur on two seperate occasions. In these cases, I was able to equalize my ears on decent and then had blocks occur when trying to ascend. The first occurred in a pool while snorkling in about 7 feet of water. The second happened in a quarry at about 50 feet. In both cases, the vertigo that occurred caused nearly complete debilitation. Complete disorintation, nausea, racing heart beat, and in the second case, an urge to hyperventilate. Fortunately, I recognized what was happening and decended to relieve the pressure imbalance. I then worked carefully back up at a very deliberate pace. I can seriously feel this guys pain here, even though it was about 45 years ago since it happened to me. Thanks so much for sharing the information. As divers, there is always more to learn. I'm curious to learn about how his eardrum recovered. Best Regards, Bob A

Man , Been a diver since I was 15, now 40's. Most of these divers seemed like they never did more then 3 dives? Good God, no BC control, panic(get you killed more often then not), Swimming like a dog paddle, What the hell? I have in over 200 dives Never lost control, even in some bad situations. I am surprised most of them got certs, at all. In the 80's, you had to swim 300 yards, float 10 minutes, tread 10 minutes with arms only and so on. If you were not 100% at ease in the water, you flunked big. Advanced divers my ass.

I'm just a PADI advanced open water certified diver. Which I did over 30 years ago (and haven't used it much since). Even I noticed/saw most all the issues. One thing that really stands out; judging by belts and the speed of descents. They were way overweighted. Which is dangerous for so many reasons, but less time to balance your ears (before they 'pop') is one. Glad everyone survived!

Man. That is absolutely insane! I. Petrified of open water in general lol so obviously never done anything like this 😂 but on the real. This gave me such anxiety watching that craziness lol Great video brother. Glad everything turned out alright! Stay safe! Much love from Vermont!!💯🤙🇺🇸

Vertigo is a sign of inner ear barotrauma during diving. Poor sap didn't know how to equalize properly or control his descent. After his ear drum bursted, the pain would have subsided as pressure between the outer and middle ear was equalized and cool water rushed into his middle ear, leading him to believe his ears equalized when actually he just suffered middle ear barotrauma. Then he made it worse by going further down and attempting to equalize again. Middle ear barotrauma is the precursor to inner ear barotrauma, which caused his vertigo. He also might have experienced a reverse block and worsened it by forcefully trying to equalize, which can also cause direct inner ear barotrauma. Then the fool who knocked the regulator out of the disoriented diver's mouth didn't even give him his own regulator and switch to his secondary. These guys aren't fit for diving... They need more instruction.

I hate to add, but ALL of you should practice until you are sick, skills. Lay in 3' deep water. Take your mask off and on, a 100 times till it is second nature breathing without it. Learn to take your tank off/on, why? Because maybe 40' down and a dive buddy left you and the tank slipped, can't panic then or death. This takes a lot of skill since most BC's have weights in them and your wetsuit will make you float. There are many ways to do this, Ask your dive master or look up videos, too hard to explain here. Try taking off just one fin and see how you react, remove both and see as well. Remove your weights and hold them in your hand and put them back in, why? Because you may need to drop one for an emergency to come up/maybe not as you'll shoot like a rocket without them, but need to have the skill. NEVER stop exhaling or breathing, practice that as well. If you hate snorkels, carry a folding one in your BD. Carry a small knife on your BC for cutting the line you never thought you'd get tangled in or fending off that marine life coming at you. Carry spare air in case of a BC blow out or your octopus free-flows at 100' down. Why am I telling you all this, because all this has happened to me in over 200+ dives at some point, hell a spare mask is not a bad idea as well. Carry 3 flashlights in dark, I've had two go out before and a nightstick on your tank. Called the dive after 1 went out and on the way up, second went, I did not have a third(but my dive buddy did). Again, so rare, but it happened. Now on night dives, I carry 3 lights. It's not a scary sport, but shit happens, be prepared for it. For the new guys. Simply put is this. Most Marine/Freshwater things/creatures worth seeing is about 30' to the surface. Freshwater usually above the thermocline, IE 30'. Make sure there is bottom you can touch to feel safer. Worse case, a long breathe out to surface, little scare of embolism and about 0 chance of the bends, even skipping the safety stop. If really worried, stay above 15' until you have the skills to feel safe deeper. Remember, you can throw up through the regulator if needed, never remove it. We call that feeding the fish :)

That is 100% on the DI and the dive shop. From the first it was very evident none of the divers had mastered the basics of buoyancy control, proper breathing and control of their arms during the dives. Several more dives with experienced divers willing to closely monitor the students was needed before moving on to the advance training courses. Great comment from Reuben "Nothing you can learn in a text book could prepare us...." Literally everything in the textbook would prepare you for that." very true statement. I have been diving for 48 years and have logged over 6000 dives. That dive was typical of the dive industry today, especially with PADI's model of "if the student has the money we will get him/her thru the course. The academics of todays courses are far and away better than when I certified in 1973 but the modern classes want the students to do the work online beforehand and then show up and take the academic test and then hit the pool and get started. Very little chance for explanations if a student is not clear on a subject.

As the late, great David Bowie sang, “This is ourselves, under pressure… den de den de de den den. “ I’m glad everyone’s okay. Niki was a rockstar. Such composure.

First off, none of these divers should have been doing their Advanced. * they all swim with their hands -- a sure sign they haven't mastered neutral bouyancy * they all came down the line too fast for newbies, not giving enough time to equalize their ears and pump up their bcs * if you feel vertigo half way down the line -- stop -- and sit on the line -- there should be zero stress to keep descending if you're not comfortable

I feel that a lot of divers can benefit from freediving first. The calmness and confidence in yourself gained from freediving will help reassure you when your equipment malfunctions and by just generally being more relaxed in the water.

I hope you're still alive 9yrs later. I also hope you got some really good lessons following this. Like, literally everything in the text books, tell you what to do in these situations. It's not hard. There were no gear checks, no one was watching out for one another, neutral buoyancy wasn't achieved, dive emergency wasn't immediately handled, no safety stops..etc. all of that, could've prevented everything that went wrong there. Most importantly, critically important, you didn't have a competent instructor who took charge of his group.

This happens when scuba certifications get given away too easily, too fast and with too little training both theoretical and practical. I am deeply against the 3 days diving certifications, and even worse when people think going advanced when they have essentially no expert at all and they're clearly not comfortable in the water.

"i had no idea what was up or down." meanwhile your floating above a reef floor.

"What can happen on a normal day, normal dive"? You're kidding, right?! Everyone on the video is panicking and the instructor has both hands full! Not talking about the appalling surface assistance on the water exit. A normal dive for me is not "who's first at the bottom", and involves a controlled descent ... and ascent. You are dangerous man!

I couldn't help myself laughing at the squeekg dog toy noise I know it was the person breathing... Lol

As a commercial diver, I can't understand how you have the balls to scuba dive 😅

Best advice one of my dive instructors gave me was to pretend I was on the moon. Everything to be executed in relaxed, slow motion manner.

who does a duck dive to descend. these people shouldn't be diving

As a soon to become divemaster, this video is a perfect example of everything what not to do on scuba diving - the worst divers are those who know the rules, but willingly choose to ignore them and become daredevils, thus endangering everybody in thw group...

Thanks for showing us this man true legends will soon be with your guys dream of becoming a diver one day

The way these guys were hyperventilating from the outset should have been the first clue that they were in a state of high anxiety about this dive. The utter lack of buoyancy control, flailing of arms, desperate kicking, etc., should have told the instructor this was likely to be a disaster dive.

As an “Open Water Diver” I know my limits and capabilities. This was sad to watch. They were way over their heads from the start. Every time you enter the water you have to be 110% sure you can handle the depth, tides, currents and any other factors that you may encounter. Surprised no one was killed.

The same thing happened to me back in the 80s. I was diving. I was around 66 feet deep. When I sneezed into my regulator and blew my ear drum out. I almost drowned it was the worst thing I've ever lived through. Now I can only go no deeper than 6 feet. And that's just in a pool, my ear is screwed.

The fact that they didn't give him any oxygen after...

This video makes me love my diving center and instructors soooo much

the dive should have ended when the bloke lost his ear drum.......

He said "nothing in textbooks could've prepared us for what happened that day" LITERALLY EVERYTHING LEADING UP TI GETTING IN THE WATER COULDVE PREPARED YALL FOR THIS!!!

I am not a diver but I hope this is not a dumb question. Would it help to use Afrin to clear nasal and Eustachian tubes prior to a dive? Or is that not effective at all?

They are all training to be Dive masters? I’ve seen divers forget their training and fail to follow basic recovery procedures but I hope never to find myself on a dive led by utter fools like these.

Thanks for sharing. I used this at the end of the lectures to a basic diver group and we all discussed what went wrong and how it should have been avoided. The aim is that if any group member sees this type of activity then they know they need to take care.

Some people just aren't built for diving. Keeping calm is #1 rule, you are brave for continuing dive after bursting ear drum. You should of notified your dive buddy and surfaced.

…I’ve been a qualified diving instructor since 1985 and a tech instructor since 1993…I’ve seen many many students come and go in that time and the best were undoubtedly ones who were already “rum” lads (or females) ….l once did a trimix course in 1997 for Royal Marines …they were excellent…calm ,level headed , fit , strong and ate the course …..im sure that if you are from a different extreme environment then it doesn’t matter if you try your hand at BASE jumping , cave diving , parachute diving or bare knuckle boxing you end up taking too it quickly and competently….

those divers were not yet experienced enough to dive deeper than 20m ... look at their trim ... look at their kicks... look at their bouyancy... holy crap! That's exactly what the problem is about PADI, SSI and all those "cheep holiday trainings".. learn to dive before you go deeper.. just take proper training until you feel comfortable...

The dive operator with in the instructors are the ones to blame. I am an experienced master s d instructor who ran 2 dive shops for many years. Those people were not ready for that type of dive, not to mention the psychological or physical side. Before you will go for the adventure be sure the diving operator is the right one. Cheers

"My breathings off what's happening?" - Lil Wheezy

I know this is a very late comment but thanks to your dive master and Niki for keeping a level head. I hope your recovery was sound and you healed from your injury. Diving is classed sometimes as a sport. It is a life changing event each dive. You and your diving buddy are each-others priority but EVERY diver in your sight is your responsibility and your obligation to look after. I hope you serve well as Dive Masters and the best to each and every one of you. Incredible video. Just an observation: I did not see one person check their tank pressure nor did I see organization. Also when your eardrum burst, why was the dive continued? NO BUDDY SYSTEM. All diver seem really out of control and each person swimming for their lives. (appearance in video), why was your injured diver left to fend for himself? There is a recovery position that must be followed. Who the heck was the Diver Master on this dive? I hope you got your money back and I do not want to hear they told you the almost death of 4 divers was priceless. You all need to stay with another Diver Master and find someone who knows what they are doing before you dive. This could have been your life brother. Thank you for this video/evidence...

Why the he'll were you doing a deep dive when your in kindergarten diving class. You all seemed lost and not experienced to do this dive.

As a rescue diver...this was all round painful to watch. As said by many of the professional instructors in the comments, so much of this could have been avoided.

It’s is still good to actually see a underwater diving situation actually show it self.

This reminds me of when I tried scuba diving on holiday as a kid. On the way down my regulator wasnt working right and I couldn't draw air. I signalled to the instructor and he did something which just made bubbles but didnt actually help me get any air, at which point I started to panic so he did it again and still no air so I tried to swim to the surface. Instructor inflated my vest and surfaced with and was yelling at me like I was stupid 🤣 I was about 10 years old at the time and had never done scuba diving before and was told everything I needed to know in broken English and in the space of about 5 minutes as we were being kitted up.